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Instead, it is a prescribed set of rules built on generations of class disparityвЂќ - Ione Gamble, Poor Little Sick Girls

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вЂњThe modern hierarchy of taste is not, as I once thought, a series of tools to be utilised in the quest for self-expression. Or when IвЂ™ve arrived to parties dressed up to the nines for fear of someone calling me out for not looking rich enough, only to have someone in my group declare it a вЂflexвЂ™ to look like shit when walking through expensive venues. The countless times my peers have suggested I just ask my mum for money to fund private healthcare for my CrohnвЂ™s disease, as if this was a totally normal, cheap and reasonable request, probably contributed to my realisation. My revelation didnвЂ™t come in one single moment, but rather a bombardment of seemingly minor events that finally helped me put together the pieces and conclude that the people around me lived completely different lives to mine. It wasnвЂ™t until adulthood that I realised my family was poor. I came to learn that having вЂgood tasteвЂ™ is not dependent on how confident you are in yourself and your interests, but on how closely you can resemble the rich. They use taste not to liberate us, or to make life enjoyable, but to assert their dominance over anyone not lucky enough to be born into bundles of cash. The people who invent the rules of taste are the same people who have gripped onto power for the whole of modern history. The people who invent the rules of taste are the same people who have gripped onto power for the whole of modern history (Picture: Issy Gladston)

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The Killers confirm plans to release new single this summer.Instead, it is a prescribed set of rules built on generations of class disparity. The modern hierarchy of taste is not, as I once thought, a series of tools to be utilised in the quest for self-expression. But letting our taste be determined and judged by others - even when that means rejecting what is universally accepted as вЂgoodвЂ™ - also holds us back. It can be fun to lust over a specific bag or pair of shoes, just as we relish the opportunity to subvert popular trends in an attempt to create our own.

It can be enjoyable to either challenge or conform to what is overarchingly accepted as good, or tasteful, or worthy of our headspace and money.

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We accept that there are people who have better taste than us, and seek out those who can teach us how to fill our lives with the right kind of things. But at some point, we learn to not fully trust our own taste.

Our sense of self is constantly evolving but ultimately stationary we are drawn to the things that excite us for reasons that cannot be explained by logic or reason. It feels innate and emotional to be drawn to a particular object or piece of music, just as it feels immovable when we feel repulsed. Most of the time, the reason we like the things we like seems predetermined by an unexplained force or part of our brain that is impossible to decode. Not taste in terms of the food we eat, but every other thing we inevitably choose to consume in our day-to-day lives. I have alwaysВ considered our sense of taste to be a primal instinct rather than an intellectual tool.