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Originally Posted by Phil Masters
I'd be wary of taking that wording too literally. There are connoisseurs of bubblegum pop or romance literature, and similar fields which still have image problems among the cultural elite, even in the debased postmodernist age; there needs to be a skill for them. Likewise, connoisseurship of, say, fine ales is an authentic skill, but it puts one at a tangent to most concepts of cultural elitism.
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What about connoisseur's of things that really it doesn't matter? Like alot of the junk expensive hifi equipment? YOu know the people who think they need to spend a couple of hundred dollars for a power cable. Mabey add a delusion that they can hear the difference.