Originally Posted by vomitron

2) People's opinions and preferences regarding aesthetics are abstract enough to appear genuine, only because abstraction is the measure of genuinity. People tend to get all pissy about this, because it means they like things because they like the way it makes them appear. The problem isn't that all of us are slaves to fashion, but that some people think they are or are not, and that makes their decisions somehow more objectively valid. It doesn't.