A simple explanation my friend: the unwashed masses are, with good effort, making an attempt to adopt an affectation of good taste. "This fine vegetable is an a

A simple explanation my friend: the unwashed masses are, with good effort, making an attempt to adopt an affectation of good taste. "This fine vegetable is an acquired taste, say they. But it is evident to anyone who can be imputed with, in the real sense of the word, "fine tastes" that it is precisely an affectation undertaken to give the impression they have some degree of sophistication. But what you've said, sir, is concerned with a fallacy in any case. Would you so blithely recommend Nickelback on the presumption that because it is popular it is good, and it is good because it is popular? I suspect so, but a man of sophistication, refinement, and class such as myself can in no wise commit to espousing such a view! "To consort with the crowd is harmful; there is no person who does not make some vice attractive to us, or stamp it upon us, or taint us unconsciously therewith." or so Seneca says! Avail yourself of the knowledge I have yielded to you, assent and ascend my friend!