RE: ABBA? Really? Help!
May 6, 2015 at 4:45 pm
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2015 at 4:47 pm by Pyrrho.)
(May 6, 2015 at 4:42 pm)dahrling Wrote:(May 6, 2015 at 4:38 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: I am glad that I do not recognize the names of many of the "musicians" who are being mentioned in this thread. Please don't bother with links for them; I know how to search and would do so if I were masochistic. And I am also unwilling to click on your links, so they will change nothing anyway. (Curiosity killed the cat.) It is strange, that being ignorant of many (though, regrettably, not all) of the terrible musicians gives me a feeling of pride. Normally, ignorance should not give rise to such a feeling, but there are exceptions to many rules, and, it seems, to the rule that one ought not be proud of ignorance. It is also giving me a new appreciation for the old saying, "ignorance is bliss," though I have never much cared for that one in the past. I suppose it depends upon what one is ignorant of.
I think you'd be very ego centrical to think your taste in music is better than others.
Taste is personal, it cannot be debated. If I like pink, and you like blue - there is no debating it.
People are listing bands that they despise. If they are despicable, then it is good to not know of them. This is not suggesting that my taste is better than theirs, but rather presuming that it might be the same as theirs. After all, if I would like one of these bands who they despised if only I heard them, then it would be a bad thing for me to not actually hear them. But, if my taste is the same as theirs, then not hearing a band they despise is a good thing.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
