Comments on: Taste

By: Mike Giberson

Mike Giberson — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:17:42 +0000

“a novel about how all the most super awesome geniuses in the world get sick of all the total jerk losers so they create their own secret super awesome genius city where no jerks can ever bother them ever again.”

I haven’t read the book, so I don’t know for sure, but it sort of sounds like the plot of Carol Gilligan’s novel, “Kyra,” as described in Sunday’s NYT Book Review.

By: Greg Newburn

Greg Newburn — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:10:44 +0000

Rand’s foreign policy wasn’t exactly pacifistic.

By: mk

mk — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:34:18 +0000

Uh oh, should we appreciate TN’s jibe in good humor due to its excellent deployment of irony, or should we discerningly note that we are all full of shit and cry ourselves to sleep? What would Hume do?

By: "Q" the Enchanter

"Q" the Enchanter — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:31:37 +0000

“so they create their own secret super awesome genius city where no jerks can ever bother them ever again.”

Is this another dig at Disneyland?

By: will wilkinson

will wilkinson — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:40:24 +0000

Touche, sir!

By: TN DC Atty

TN DC Atty — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:49:00 +0000

You make an excellent point. The philistines with their vulgar taste for pomp and melodrama will never understand the liberal-individualist appreciation for subtlety and restraint.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go read a novel about how all the most super awesome geniuses in the world get sick of all the total jerk losers so they create their own secret super awesome genius city where no jerks can ever bother them ever again.

By: Brian Moore

Brian Moore — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:57:17 +0000

“But it can also be illuminating to occasionally note openly that ideologies do have an aesthetic dimension, and that some of them are just hideous.”

Certainly! But I can’t resist mentioning (even though as you put “some” you are allowing for it) that you could have nice aesthetics and bad ideology, and vice versa.

A critic of free markets could claim that Brittany Spears and The Enquirer are the vulgar aesthetics that arise when markets are allowed to “run wild.” I pretty much look down on populism, but I have to accept that in a free system, lots of people are going to choose the tawdry over the refined, and that there’s nothing wrong with that.

(I haven’t tried to poke holes in this argument, just relaying it.)