Originally Posted by demonrail666

What i'm saying here is that a quest for novelty is a basic symptom of an embracing of relative values. The whole 'if you like it, then fine' syndrome, which allows someone to say that they believe Tarantino to be a better film-maker than, say, Godard. The correct response to this should be, you are absolutely wrong, but instead they're usually reassured by the aforementioned mantra of 'if you like it, then fine'. Because ultimately a quest for significance in the banal will lead only to a series of banal experiences, it is no wonder that people skip quickly from one thing to another. The fact that when they finally do come up against something of true value they won't be able to recognise it, and will probably just reduce it to the same level as that which they flirted with earlier, is the real cultural crisis of our time.