I just can’t figure out what ‘mass culture’, ‘elite culture’ and ‘artistic value’ are supposed to mean in your argument.
I don’t believe you, at least with respect to the first two (I’ll grant that “artistic value” is harder to pin down, and I didn’t make any attempt). Rather, I think you’re (perhaps reflexively) attempting to enforce norms of discourse that are designed to prevent certain kinds of thoughts from being thought, or at least stated. Because I, on the contrary, think it’s important for those thoughts to be heard, I’m consciously rebelling against those norms, which is why the style of my comments now is different from what it was in the past.
I don’t believe you, at least with respect to the first two (I’ll grant that “artistic value” is harder to pin down, and I didn’t make any attempt). Rather, I think you’re (perhaps reflexively) attempting to enforce norms of discourse that are designed to prevent certain kinds of thoughts from being thought, or at least stated. Because I, on the contrary, think it’s important for those thoughts to be heard, I’m consciously rebelling against those norms, which is why the style of my comments now is different from what it was in the past.