From Wikipedia… Bourdieu argued against the Kantian view of pure aesthetics, stating that the legitimate taste of the society is the taste of the ruling class. This position also rejects the idea of genuine good taste, as the legitimate taste is merely a class taste. This idea was also proposed by Simmel, who noted that the upper classes abandon fashions as they are adopted by lower ones.
So, genuine good taste. What is that then? We know it exists, because we have it.
And there’s more… It has also been argued that the association between social class and taste is no longer quite as strong as it used to be. For instance, theorists of the Frankfurt School have claimed that the diffusion of mass cultural products has obscured class differences in capitalist societies. Products consumed passively by members of different social classes are virtually all the same, with only superficial differences regarding brand and genre. Other criticism has concentrated on the declassifying effects of postmodern culture; that consumer tastes are now less influenced by traditional social structures, and they engage in play with free-floating signifiers to perpetually redefine themselves with whatever they find pleasurable.
De gustibus non est disputandum
https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Aesthetics
Ghastly Good Taste https://youtu.be/oD4ZPANU8DA
Jarvis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM
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