We want only to brutalise the generations above and below us. Skip forward or backward one and there's enough distance for kinship, laughter, even understanding.
Others have argued that, on the contrary, music, along with art and literature, is part of what makes people human; its absence would have a brutalising effect.
" How, sir" ? he cried; " I suspect, do you say? I suspect nothing. Only where I find strength abused and a man brutalising his inferiors, I take the liberty to interfere" .