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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
relativism has pervaded our life
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My observation is that relativism only pervades your life if you want it to; shit music only pervades your life if you want it to. 'Relativism' is, strangely enough, a bit of an empty term in and of itself; contingently, it's a good thing sometimes, a bad thing others. I personally bemoan, in myself and projected out on the world, a lack of critical faculties. I think people intuitively understand art; the problem comes with articulation, which nearly always appeals to ration (but generally is an expression of emotion and other entirely personal qualities).
I also have a great deal of personal disdain for art-as-identity - 'I listen to group x which is opposed to group y or type of music z, which reflects upon myself positively'. We all do it, and I hate when I notice myself doing it.
Disclaimer: the above is a rambling load of nonsense that is directed no-where particular.