RE: Mainstream. A Philosophical Discovery. 03-06-2012, 02:54 AM
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Nicely written, I have too noticed how some people systematically like (well, rather claim to like) only things that are obscure and unknown and dislike anything that's popular and/or mainstream.
Question is, what actually fits their image? Is it the dubstep itself or rather liking something that's currently unknown? If it's the latter, then it fits their style that they abandon it and look for something else, they move on, it's not the specific style (dubsteb in this example) that defines them, but rather its uniqueness, so from this viewpoint, one could argue that they do not conform, as they keep they style, but then again, they do conform to this style, so can someone truly be non-conformer? Because even when you're non-conformer, you conform to the idea of non-conforming, a bit of a paradox, although it depends on your definition of word "conform".
It might be a bit similar principle like... you imagine that a good quality program would work fine and have as least bugs as possible. But... what if your goal was to make a crappy program with many bugs? Then such good quality program would be suddenly low quality one, because it would have to few bugs (and yes, it is done practically, often when you need to test various automated tests that try to find bugs and problems in your code). It just depends on the viewpoint and your criteria.
I myself think that it's best to listen/like whatever you feel like, regardless of how popular it is, if you like the music really for the music itself, therefore, if you like dubstep for being dubstep and you feel that the dubsteb is your style, I think you'll continue listening to it no matter what. But if you like only things that are unknown and obscure, if liking unknown things is your style, then you'll stop liking it once it looses this quality and you move to something else. Yes, there are people like that, you can think of them as shallow, or call them whatever you want, but then again, it's their style and they have every right for it, no matter how stupid you find it.
Question is, what actually fits their image? Is it the dubstep itself or rather liking something that's currently unknown? If it's the latter, then it fits their style that they abandon it and look for something else, they move on, it's not the specific style (dubsteb in this example) that defines them, but rather its uniqueness, so from this viewpoint, one could argue that they do not conform, as they keep they style, but then again, they do conform to this style, so can someone truly be non-conformer? Because even when you're non-conformer, you conform to the idea of non-conforming, a bit of a paradox, although it depends on your definition of word "conform".
It might be a bit similar principle like... you imagine that a good quality program would work fine and have as least bugs as possible. But... what if your goal was to make a crappy program with many bugs? Then such good quality program would be suddenly low quality one, because it would have to few bugs (and yes, it is done practically, often when you need to test various automated tests that try to find bugs and problems in your code). It just depends on the viewpoint and your criteria.
I myself think that it's best to listen/like whatever you feel like, regardless of how popular it is, if you like the music really for the music itself, therefore, if you like dubstep for being dubstep and you feel that the dubsteb is your style, I think you'll continue listening to it no matter what. But if you like only things that are unknown and obscure, if liking unknown things is your style, then you'll stop liking it once it looses this quality and you move to something else. Yes, there are people like that, you can think of them as shallow, or call them whatever you want, but then again, it's their style and they have every right for it, no matter how stupid you find it.
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