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Accounting for Taste: Choices in books, movies, music, and art go to the core of self.
- swombat 18y agoA surprisingly content-free article. Great read if you're just looking for a bunch of anecdotes about people's tastes, but not much of a revelation one way or another. I read through the whole thing hoping for some great insight, but there was no such thing. Importantly, the stereotyping was very much just that - stereotyping. I recognised myself in almost all the stereotypes mentioned in the article - as good a proof as any that human beings don't fall into these neat classifications, but instead we're all just a blend of all of them. I guess that's quite typical of any psychological classification, though.
- Ardit20 18y agoThey hinted at the complexity of the formation of different tastes and how there are many other influences which might cause the overlaps you describe. Mybe it is better to simply give different categorizations than spell in details how your tastes are formed which in turn might lead to changing your tastes.
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- nazgulnarsil 18y agoa bunch of fuzzy feel good vignettes without any conclusions, classic humanities essay material.
- peakok 18y agoI don't know where you live, but if this article qualifies as classic Humanities material for you, and if you think Humanities is a synomym of crap, there must be something wrong with your education system.
- swombat 18y agohttp://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html DH0, DH1, DH2, barely touching on DH3.
- peakok 18y agoYes, but the original statement is barely "DH1" : "Classic Humanities material = a bunch of fuzzy feel good vignettes without any conclusions". Circle-logic, my friends.
- nazgulnarsil 18y agoshow me a valid way of drawing conclusions in a humanities field where you have thousands of variables and are never sure of cause, effect and correlation.