Ok, romance I don't know. Mystery: cozy=conservative, procedural=liberal. Funny (Psych, Monk)=liberal.
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There's also psycho-mystery (Dexter) and vigilante (Dirty Harry) mysteries that are conservative
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the point of mysteries is formulaic predictability with only the tiniest hints of surprise at predictable moments
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you can put progressive window dressing on it but the form is inherently conservative, like porn
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i wouldn't say porn/mystery/food is conservative, unless pleasure is inherently conservative
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pleasure in the animal sense of 'welp, this is just what my body/brain is reacting to'
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innate taste, a very conservative influence! only the novelty drive screws it up...
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there's a class of experience that i would call not-aesthetic. of course it can be influenced by stuff.
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Hmm. I wonder if you two would come up with similar or wildly different "maps of the art world"
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