"Thomas D. Cox, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/24/2008 11:28:08 AM:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:17 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > because people, Luddites - naysayers - Dad rockers - old farts with > > slippers and pipes, have been saying those exact words for eons > > it all comes down to personal taste in music > > but i am not coming from that perspective of "what is new to me is not > good". i am coming from the perspective that "none of what is out > there is new to me, and none of it is interesting either". painting the world in absolutes is dangerous to the mind, soul, and spirit might as well we all give up then - you included might as well lay down and die > > as much as anyone might disagree - you cannot argue taste > > if you argue taste you might as well be banging your head against a brick > > wall > > > > that's not a statement directed at you, just a - this is how it is thing > > people are free to like whatever they want, but i dont agree that > quality is subjective. > > tom ah, but you're trying to put a corral, which is at best a concrete picket fence, around something that is abstract and untouchable the result is it will continue to slip out, over, and under any kind of objective rules you try to wrap "quality" in you can't see inside everyone's souls to see why they like the things they do - outside of the technical, why they find "quality" in one person's playing and not in another's laying down objective parameters on "quality" is for people living in fragile worlds in the end, your mind, like the concrete fence, will be rigid and stuck - unable to move from where you last put it if you're sticking that fence around other people then you're ego trippin' to the highest degree MEK
