01-03-2012, 12:26 AM
I don't want to sound derogatory, but the kind of logic that says things are only good because we are told so reeks of elitism. Whatever happened to liking something because it speaks to you?
Why can't it be beautiful to one and plain to another? Art speaks to us or it doesn't. Our own constitution should be strong enough to distinguish between our true taste and the 'inherited' taste of others.
My folks think that poetry is a fool's game; that hip hop is noise and Picasso needed new glasses. That doesn't mean that I necessarily have to feel that way because it's what I was told, does it?
Why can't it be beautiful to one and plain to another? Art speaks to us or it doesn't. Our own constitution should be strong enough to distinguish between our true taste and the 'inherited' taste of others.
My folks think that poetry is a fool's game; that hip hop is noise and Picasso needed new glasses. That doesn't mean that I necessarily have to feel that way because it's what I was told, does it?