Posted on 02/26/2005 5:56:59 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The word "taste" is unpopular in a culture that feels obliged to accommodate everything that seems out of joint or freakish, even when it is silly, such as John Cage's "music of silence". The exercise of taste is elitist and therefore narrow, undemocratic, and "biased" -- objective attributes that form the basis of the critique of taste that is so popular these days.
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one last ping for the night.
All that talk of "taste" has made me hungry for dinner.
Very discriminating!
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