6 Core – Taste
6 Core – Taste
Things have taste and sense. Taste is a matter of touch and interest. Of regulating the relationship between the outside and the inside
(an epistemological function).
Of creating meaning for things by linking them to the purely private pleasure that appears in public.
And so, taste can serve as a source of personal distinction, formulating social identity. Within the free play that leisure allows us, there are moments that come together under pleasure and satisfaction, moments that want to continue to exist, to share a common existence. Taste is the manner in which something specific – random and accidental – becomes concrete and proper: Necessary and permanent. Like devoting oneself to a hobby.
Taste is simultaneously acquired and developed. It indicates sensibility and attention to details and how they fit together. That’s why taste is also used as the reason and logic for things. Reason and logic of existential meaning. A motive for perfecting one’s unique mental faculties.
When taste remains connected to the natural instinct of curiosity, it serves as a mechanism of developing, recognizing, and constructing the self and the environment; when taste is disconnected from curiosity and reduced to private pleasure, it becomes limited, schematic, ideologic, a mechanism for imposing order and discipline, for shaping life, for avoiding and escaping (escapism) oneself and the challenges one faces.
Taste is about making and leaving an impression. Producing and establishing a measure and value for enjoyment. Making it common, without arguing and in the name of curiosity.
Take the time to find out if there is a sense to the things you consume.
Things have taste and sense. Taste is a matter of touch and interest. Of regulating the relationship between the outside and the inside
(an epistemological function).
Of creating meaning for things by linking them to the purely private pleasure that appears in public.
And so, taste can serve as a source of personal distinction, formulating social identity. Within the free play that leisure allows us, there are moments that come together under pleasure and satisfaction, moments that want to continue to exist, to share a common existence. Taste is the manner in which something specific – random and accidental – becomes concrete and proper: Necessary and permanent. Like devoting oneself to a hobby.
Taste is simultaneously acquired and developed. It indicates sensibility and attention to details and how they fit together. That’s why taste is also used as the reason and logic for things. Reason and logic of existential meaning. A motive for perfecting one’s unique mental faculties.
When taste remains connected to the natural instinct of curiosity, it serves as a mechanism of developing, recognizing, and constructing the self and the environment; when taste is disconnected from curiosity and reduced to private pleasure, it becomes limited, schematic, ideologic, a mechanism for imposing order and discipline, for shaping life, for avoiding and escaping (escapism) oneself and the challenges one faces.
Taste is about making and leaving an impression. Producing and establishing a measure and value for enjoyment. Making it common, without arguing and in the name of curiosity.
Take the time to find out if there is a sense to the things you consume.