“My judgment is my judgment:
other people don’t have an obvious right to it too”

– perhaps this is what
such a philosopher of the future will say.
We must do away with the bad taste
of wanting to be in agreement
with the majority.

“Good” is no longer good
when it comes from your neighbor’s mouth.
And how could there ever be a “common good”!

The term is self-contradictory:
whatever can be common will never have much value.

In the end,
it has to be as it is and has always been:

great things are left for the great,
abysses for the profound, delicacy and trembling for the subtle,

and, all in all, everything rare
for those who are rare themselves. –

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. by Judith Norman, aphorism 43

This insight strikes a resounding note.  Of course everyone has taste, their own taste. Whether an appraisal can be acclaimed as “good” depends upon cultivation, upon considerable exposure to a particular skill, or artform, as well as exercise of the intellect to mindfully receive the deeper meaning which is conveyed by the experience.  Taste is not something that is adventitious, accidental, off the cuff.  You wouldn’t want to seek a lesson in coffee from someone who asserts that Folgers is “best.” Everyone has taste,  Not everyone has good taste.

“In the end, it has to be as it is and has always been.”

To be resisted, especially in a capitalist society, is the temptation to “bow down” to the taste of the man/woman-on-the street, the randomly selected citizen.  Every opinion is not of equal worth. A “common” good!?  What is common is worth little if anything at all. There’s simply a surplus available.  What we deem as “good” is of fine quality, scarce, by contrast to what is inferior.  Of course, how could there possibly be a common good?

To become good at any manner of practice, enterprise, or expression – you’ve got to learn to walk the wire, risk the abyss.

There’s always time for a song. This one will bring back memories!  Brandy by Looking Glass.