{"id":14423,"date":"2009-04-03T06:09:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T12:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=14423"},"modified":"2009-04-03T06:09:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T12:09:35","slug":"quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/03\/quote-of-the-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neil Gaiman, from his blog entry today<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I’ve never been convinced that there’s any meaningful division between high culture and pop culture — I think there’s good stuff out there, and there’s stuff that’s not much good, and that Sturgeon’s Law applies to high culture and popular culture: 90% of it will be crap, which means that 10% of it will be amazing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’d probably add a few fillips to it — “good” and “bad” stuff is largely (I’m tempted to say wholly) subjective, driven by individual and cultural tastes. There is nothing in the way of culture\/lit that everyone will agree is good or bad, crap or amazing — if you get more than 70% of the population voting one way or the other (even factoring in age), you’re probably doing something astonishing (and it’s probably something I won’t agree with).<\/p>\n

But as Neil points out, that’s true for high culture and popular culture, and that subjectivity leads to a lot of bleed-over between the two, such that it’s hard to actually draw a bright line. Most people who do so are drawing a line between “stuff I like and respect and am pleased to tell people that I admire” and “stuff I dislike, or think doesn’t reflect well on me, so even if I do like it I’m going to, at best, label it as a guilty pleasure.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Neil Gaiman, from his blog entry today. I’ve never been convinced that there’s any meaningful division between high culture and pop culture — I think there’s good stuff out there, and there’s stuff that’s not much good, and that Sturgeon’s Law applies to high culture and popular culture: 90% of it will be crap, which … Continue reading “Quote of the Day”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2180,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/02\/22\/covering_the_al.html","url_meta":{"origin":14423,"position":0},"title":"Covering the Album","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 22-Feb-02 10:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"Rolling Stone has the Fifty Best Album Covers on display. 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