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I don't think this is a unique or even uncommon observation but I do hate the culture of how disliking something because of personal taste is seen as an intellectual thing instead of a mild personal failing.

I don't like playing fighting games. That sucks! That's a personal failing on my part, and because of it it's one less thing I can enjoy. I have a good understanding of why and I'm ok with it, and it's hardly the games' fault, but this reflects poorly (again, in a minor way) on me more than anything else.

Be it games, food, music, or any thing where pure subjective "dopamine or no dopamine" kind of stuff comes into play, not being able to enjoy something is just bad.

Two very important bits of context to this:

First, I do think it's very important to get a good grasp on why you don't enjoy something, and why others do, when possible. Particularly with creative works it's usually possible to do this with enough analysis and introspection and I think doing that is great. There's a very clear difference between "This particular aspect is enjoyable for other people but I don't enjoy and thus is why I can not enjoy this entire thing" and "this thing is bad because I don't like it" or "Here's why I don't like this thing! I can't possibly understand how others like it!"

Second, this is ignoring external factors for not enjoying something. Person/company/etc that made the thing sucks and you refuse to enjoy it on that basis alone? Valid. Don't want to touch anything trending too heavily? Valid. Listened to the album for the first time when you had food poisoning and the entire genre is ruined forever now? Valid.


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in reply to @plumpan's post:

But like. Hmm. How would "listened while you had food poisoning so it's tainted" really any different to the mind than just "I don't like it because [x] is not interesting to me." I don't agree at all with the idea of disliking something being a personal failing. It's treated as an intellectual thing because the alternative is suggesting someone could be judged by what kind of media they like. Even if you were to say "but don't judge people about it" that doesn't invalidate the core idea of it being a personal failing and people would internalize that.

I do however agree with your suggestion that people need to be more introspective and try to understand why they like or dislike something. I think a lot of the current state of popular media and art is rooted in a total lack of self-analysis or media literacy in most of the population. People just Consume Content like junk food and never stop to think about what they've seen beyond the surface level. They either liked it or they didn't, and you ask them to expand on their opinion they're never really able to. They don't know why they feel that way, they just know that they do.

No wonder Marvel became the dominant force in cinema - they're basically the McDonald's of movies.