sheer hypocrisy of the so called tolerance...
You have your taste , I have mine etc..I have heard and read this speech so often and yet in the same time there are numerous awards , tops 100 of all time , critics etc ... whose job is only to rate artistic works . On top of that the very people that deliver this kind of speech are the first to rush on those tops and have very bitter comments if they don't give them reason .
So let's stop this non sense 2 minutes pretty please ! we're not on a TV stage . Clearly there are some golden principles universally valorized which are a blatant denial to this : coherence, originality , adequation style-subject ,etc...
Therefore there are really a bracket of good works selected according to those rules and carefully selected by the ebb and webb of the time : only the real good work last . And inside this bracket , large enough not to give reasons to feel oppressed, yes you can allege having "different taste" . Otherwise it's just demogagy.
Clearly there are good work with which I don't have any bonds : I just don't have any feeling for Fruit basket , I'm not particalurly fond of FMA , I was pretty bored by Slam Dunk ... But i'm not reluctant at all to acknowledge their qualities : they're good sometimes excellent but i don't like them . This is what taste is about . This is quite different from quality . Difference between tolerance and hypocrisy .
Someone who says almost everything is better than Berserk and just after that try to defende himself awkwardly with this lame defense for kids and teenagers about " taste" has no credibility whatsoever .
Last edited by ghinzdra at 1:37 am, Mar 20 2008