Not trying to be a wiseass, but I actively try to avoid having or navigating by taste. It's the reason I often butt heads with tasteniks
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*rubs chin tastefully* counter-taste is a sort of taste
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Taste is social. Cultivating taste of any sort incurs a cost you pay in blunted non-social sensitivities. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste_(so
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(Scanned page) I feel like that can be true and untrue at the same time? Eg being a smoker is - among non-smokers but + among other smokers
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Or am I misunderstanding what you're saying
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Right! I think then if you're already uncomfortable in conventional social settings, it makes sense to develop taste to find your weirdos
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You're still not getting what I mean. I'm saying any kind of taste costs you in terms of blindness in Robinson Crusoe mode
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Taste is how you you use other people to leverage solitary sensibilities. It's like sociocultural equivalent of industrial scaling.
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I get the first bit!
But if you involve others in your solitary sensibilities, is it still solitary...?
What's a gd example of this irl 🤔
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By defn that would be impossible. Involving others involves taste. Even the barest shared language of sensibilities introduces some taste.
I am missing the point so hard, aren't I 😂 any recommendations for reads that might help me grok this better
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Nah it's not an important point most of the time. I'm being a grump mostly
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