Special Edition: Ken Myers' The New, The Cool, and the Sensational: Judgment in the Face of Popular Culture's Pseudo-Transcendenalists

From the 2013 CiRCE Conference: A Contemplation of Judgment
July 2013; Baltimore, MD 

The making of judgments requires some sort of standard against which to make measurements. While the normal nihilism of contemporary culture is often described as being thoroughly without standards, all judgments assumed to be merely expressions of preference, very few people possess the Promethean confidence to assert their preferences requires some sort of standard against which to make measurements. While the normal nihilism of contemporary culture is often described as being thoroughlywithout standards, all judgments assumed to be merely expressions of preference, very few people possess the Promethean confidence to assert their preferences rful arbiters of quality.