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ICYMI: Is Taste Really Just Status Seeking?

ICYMI: Is Taste Really Just Status Seeking?

Am I a horrible movie/music/beer snob just so I can lord it over you?

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Jan 28, 2025
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A while ago Scott Alexander published a follow up piece to his review of Tom Wolfe’s From Bauhaus to Our House in which Scott further discussed taste and what it is. (He has written about this subject before, too.) I haven’t been able to put either of these two posts out of my mind.

In the most recent post, he proposes a number of different analogies for…

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