Taste games
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or why I avoid midrange beer
dynomight · Feb 2024 · bourdieu I bet you like it when beautiful people laugh at your jokes. And I bet you like the taste of sugar. I sure do. But what about camping or dubstep or chain restaurants or installation art? What about blue cheese or pick-up trucks or reality TV? Me, I like some and loathe others. And it feels like free will. But if you tried to guess which ones I like, I think you’d do extremely well. (I don’t like dubstep; all your other guesses are right.) Why should you be able to do that? One interpretation of Bourdieu is that we like things when it benefits us to like them. Ta
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