Good Art Is A Matter Of Taste (Or Is It?)

“This mass cultural shift towards the desire for ‘educated taste’ has led to historic levels of cultural insecurity. Who can doubt that many of the people who drag themselves through a Booker winner are doing it out of a sense of “self-improvement” rather than a real hunger for literature? Similarly, a significant portion of the audience sitting through any production of Krapp’s Last Tape are there because it makes them feel a cut above.”