Explains how taste signals statusfrom @maisonrickie

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The elites use taste as a way to keep you out and here's how it works. In a previous video, I touched on the four different kinds of capital coin by French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu. This is the follow-up we've been waiting for rank trust best, you do not want to miss out on this. In his most famous book, Distinction, he conducts a forensic study on French society in the nineteen tier. Rank after surveying thousands of people on their preferences toward things like food, music, furniture, art, and leisure, he found something particularly damning. He determined that every aesthetic choice corresponded to a class position. The working class preferred substance over form, wanting hearty, filling food, functional furniture. The middle class aspired worse, mimicking elite best better always getting it slightly wrong. He called the middle class the tier bourgeoisie, which is truly a topic that deserves its own video, so follow if you wanna see that. And then we have the upper class who prized aesthetic distance. They valued abstraction and irony, purity or art for art's sake, and they'd often scorn the popular as vulgar. No, how does this play out? Let me paint you a picture. You're at a dinner party and around you are a bunch of educated affluent people. Someone mentions they just got back from Puglia. Another person says, Oh, we visited Puglia in 2019. Stayed in a messeria outside of Ostuni. Remarkable. Someone else says, We almost went there better ended up in Best instead. Less discovered. The Lucanian tradition is Now no one has said anything explicitly exclusionary better if you heard all of that and you don't know what a masare is, if you don't know why yes discovered is a status marker, then you've just been labeled as an outsider. The conversation was a series of micro best and if you don't pass them, you're gently, invisibly excluded. You can stay at the table, but you're not really in the conversation. This is what Worse means when he calls taste a weapon the elite used to maintain boundaries. Now Bourdieu spent his entire career trying to demystify the concept of taste as a game the elites used to exclude. What was once hidden in plain sight has now been brought to life and once you're able to see the game, you decide how to proceed. How do you play or do you play at all? What you can't do is pretend the game doesn't exist. Now tier is so much more to cover from this work and I promise I'm gonna get to it all. So if you want to be the first to know like and follow and let me know in the comments what you rank.