Seth probably knows the answer to this query

[Sethomas]

Yeah, I often think about how super-saturated modern audiences are with media and such. The result is extreme jading, and it'll be interesting and probably scary to see how the constant availability of eclectic entertainment is going to affect the post-modern psyche.

Apply this understanding to the fact that 240 years ago we had the greatest voice in history, and the vast majority of his audience was people who could only attend a musical event very infrequently, if not once in a lifetime.

We can go to any store or website and hear anything we want at any time. Back then they had something that we can never have, and only rarely could they enjoy it. The effect that this must have had on them psychologically is something that we can only conjecture and couldn't possibly experience ourselves, sadly.

What i relate to this would be like the peasant urban migration of the mid-14th century. Pretend you're a serf in central France, 1350. Millions are dead, quite possibly everyone you ever knew aside from yourself (as was known to have happened to many). Nothing left to lose, you take the risk on your life of breaching the ties to your fiefdom and you journey to Paris to start a new life. You have never seen anything but fields and huts, the most opulent structure you've ever seen in your 30 years of life was the stone parochial chapel. Imagine this frame of mind, this lifetime of conditioning, topped by walking into the capital of war-ravaged France and standing in front of Notre Dame de Paris.

I mean, modern tourists today who grew up looking at pictures of megastructures and art and all that still frequently shit themselves at that site.