still slow going...

so, still tackling "Truth and Method" "The concept of taste undoubtedly implies a mode of knowing. The mark of good taste is being able to stand back from ourselves and our private preferences. Thus taste, in its essential nature, is not private but a social phenomenon of the first order." That's true and doesn't it sort of imply that world music has it right, as much as my teenage self I may have wanted to write it off as hippie weirdo stuff... but who am I, right?