Limited expectations and cultural conditioning reinforce each other.
Collective approval permits acceptance of the previously rejected. What was formerly strange and unknown gains admittance, then common currency, often as the result of celebrity promotion or commercial advertising campaigns.
Those who think for themselves are not burdened by this sort of timidity, seeing and hearing what others do not, and being unconcerned with the vicissitudes of public tastes. This is by no means a small and elite group, and often has greater influence on cultural attitudes than those with a vested interest in manipulating "consumer" perceptions.
The appeal of art is nowhere lost, regardless, but only obscured for a time.
Collective approval permits acceptance of the previously rejected. What was formerly strange and unknown gains admittance, then common currency, often as the result of celebrity promotion or commercial advertising campaigns.
Those who think for themselves are not burdened by this sort of timidity, seeing and hearing what others do not, and being unconcerned with the vicissitudes of public tastes. This is by no means a small and elite group, and often has greater influence on cultural attitudes than those with a vested interest in manipulating "consumer" perceptions.
The appeal of art is nowhere lost, regardless, but only obscured for a time.
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