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22 September

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From one piece Good Taste is Not What’s Oppressing Us in 2026 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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The taste for high art has become extremely marginal, limited almost entirely to a subset of knowledge workers.

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Today the taste for “high art” has become extremely marginal, almost exclusively limited to a particular subset of knowledge workers.

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The good taste of each era tracks the makeup of its elites.

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But as Veblen explained, the "good taste" of each era is correlated with the particular makeup of elites.

Good Taste is Not What’s Oppressing Us in 2026culture.ghost.io

5 December 2023

W. David MarxKorrents 5 Dec 2023

From one piece On Taste and Congruence 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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There cannot be good taste without congruence.

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Without congruence, there cannot be good taste.

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People in similar social positions tend to share tastes, and the social hierarchy labels some tastes good and others bad.

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People in similar social positions tend to have similar tastes (so-called “taste worlds”), and the social hierarchy elevates some tastes as “good” and disparages others as “bad."

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