>So maybe we change the subject to "crappy American tastes" ...?
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>Jordan
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>Jordan, careful. I sense of that California smugness showing.
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>Well, hell, try crappy American culture, period. Food and food
>preparation just reflects some other totality. Pick one, say politics,
>same blah, meally mouthed crap that says nothing and does nothing. Or
>pick music, same shit, lots of noise, melodic and harmonic dimenision
>zero. Remember the guitar thread? Hendrix? Get real. Try Joe Pass. Or
>writing, lots of words and nothing to say. Or take on the big one, an
>economy that produces little worth building or buying. Architecture by
>puke.
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>But then I'll hear a bunch of shit about elitism, dissing pop-culture,
>etc. Diseased chicken is just the tip of the shit heap. Budweiser.
You seem to be up to something. DeTocqueville was making a similar point some 150 years ago, linking the poor taste to democracy. I tend to agree that elitism, for all its social drwabacks, has no equals in the realm of aesthetics. Populism (which passes for democracy here) does not even compare.
wojtek