Jim wrote,
> yeah, tastes are a "dependent
> variable," but that doesn't say that people
> don't have bad taste a lot of the time
> (and I don't exclude myself from this).
The key is not whether you have bad tastes, but
whether you feel _guilty_ for having bad taste:
that is, whether you have "metapreferences" that
made you wish you didn't like such things. And, of
course, we all know how culturally determined is
the specification of what "bad taste" includes is.
;>)
Speaking of bad taste, I'm now listening to one of
my favorite musical groups of all time: the Dead
Kennedys. I could listen to "Kill the Poor" and
"California Uber Alles" all day long. Talk about
bad taste!
Ah, the good old days. Jim, were you at Berkeley
when the DKs were starting out (circa 1977, I
think)?
Eric
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