>Wrote professionally about taste in a previous life. It is related more closely than we expect to techne or competence from physical knowledge. Closer than we

>Wrote professionally about taste in a previous life. It is related more closely than we expect to techne or competence from physical knowledge. Closer than we expect? Huh? Competence and skill are the two most common concepts associated with taste, ask any person who hates contemporary art. > It's whether something legitimately represents power. Taste may be an instinct for honest signals, which would seem like its own sort of intelligence. I understand that nowadays everything in humanities has to be about power to be fashionable, but that sounds like quite a reach. I don’t really follow this logic on crassness.