“Historically, labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more for their basic livelihood and had gotten into a fix they couldn't get out of - because they had accepted the unacceptable to begin with. Accepting something you have to form a labor union to fight after the fact only tells me that people were acting against their own best (or even good) interests for a long time. I don't see any rational, coherent explanation for this sort of behavior in humans, but it's all over the place.” PeopleHumansLongDifferentFactsFormFightingInterestPayActingAcceptingWillingTasteBehaviorLong TimeLaborUnionsAcceptedLifestyleRationalExplanationLivelihoodLabor UnionDifferent Lifestyles Author:Erik Naggum
“The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to be unalterable. Love, in spite of all rational knowledge to the contrary, is always in the mood of believing in miracles.” BelieveCultureInfluenceTasteMiracleAssumingContraryMoodRationalSpiteIdiosyncrasiesPersonal Taste Author:John Cowper Powys
“What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all kinds of educational, religious, and cultural institutions that are predicated on corporate practices and goals. Everything we do to, with, and for our children is influenced by capitalist market conditions and the hegemonic interests of ruling corporate elites. In simple terms, we calculate what is best for our children by regarding them as investments and turning them into commodities.” KindChildrenUseTodayYoungValuesGoalTermInterestReligiousSimplePracticeConditionsTasteOur ChildrenMethodInstitutionsInvestmentEducationalRationalAll KindsCorporateCapitalistElitesCommodityRulingDisturbing Author:Jack Zipes
“... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, "immortal longings.” StoriesHumanitySocialFictionNovelCrazyTasteLongingRationalImmortalShort StoryHeroismBehaviourObstinacyPortraiture Book:Stories Source: Stories
“What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.” IfsHumansReasonUseActionHuman BeingsBeautyTeachProduceTasteAppreciateMathematicsProofRationalAestheticsCalculationsAssessmentGood Taste Author:Franz Grillparzer
“One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we have failed to explain in normal and earthly terms must have paranormal or supernatural explanations; and that science, being rational, cannot explain the irrational, such as taste and love.” TermBirthTasteNormalAnd LoveMythRationalExplanationParanormalIrrationalFacilitate Author:Mario Bunge