quotes (now i'm extending the title because "The length of the title for this topic must be ranging between 10 and 255 characters")

from air guitar by dave hickey

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

The wicked norm, like the name of a vindictive God, is never spoken or shown, not by human beings, whose acts are necessarily willful, who only speak and show to qualify that norm, to distinguish themselves from it, to recruit more dissenters, to confirm some area of mutual dissent from its hegemony. So if, for no apparent reason, I tell yo "The sky is blue," you will not believe I am telling you that. You will read for the subtext of dissent, for the edge of qualification. You will suspect that I am indulging in lyrical effusion, perhaps, trying to awaken your dulled senses to the "blueness" of the sky at this moment. Or, if you are more suspicious, you will suspect that by saying "The sky is blue," I am inferring that whatever you have just said is too fucking obvious to qualify as human utterance. If, on the other hand, you receive a memorandum from the government officially stating that the sky is blue, you will shrug, but you will believe it, since the government labels things, then counts them, and averages them out. Defining the norm is its instrument of control over idiosyncrasy.