On Appreciation

There’s an overwhelming desire for most people — myself very much included — to improve one’s sense of discriminatory predilection, social acceptance through association, and intaking of only the highest quality inputs.

Which is a fancy way of saying we all want to feel like we have good taste. Our music, our food and drink, our sense of style, and appreciation of art: It’s all representative of who we are, to some degree or another, so it makes sense that we define ourselves by these preferen...