Sorry, Ray. Your response is all evaluations (value judgements) of good/bad/, ugly/beautiful, worthy/unworthy, valuable/worthless. The standards you use in evaluation may be vastly different than the billion+ in China, the billion+ in the Indian subcontinent, the hundreds of millions in Africa, S.America, and obviously the hundreds of millions in N.America.
Culture does matter, but each culture is responsible for its own creations. Each can & does change over time. There are NO known external, objective, universal absolutes ( please refute if you can) other than death and the tendency of life forms to seek to thrive, replicate, and expand niches. Meanwhile, we still agree on some things aesthetic.( I call it taste) It's just that I don't care that much about historical standards or the taste of others. Many great artists (all genres) were laughing stocks during their lifetimes. So much for objective standards; they were creating new works that were appreciated IN FUTURE! Rear view mirrors don't help much in those cases. Steve -- http://magma.ca/~gpco/ http://www.scientists4pr.org/ Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.--Kenneth Boulding
