Q&A: High and Low Culture
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High and Low Culture
Question
Hello Rabbi,
For most of us, there is a certain intuition that says there is high culture in the world and there is low culture in the world. Very often, it is also possible to classify a given cultural product into one of those categories based on that intuition. My question is whether, in your opinion, that intuition can be grounded in firm criteria that make it possible to distinguish between high and low art and culture (or at least to sketch some kind of spectrum)?
Thank you
Answer
Even if you had criteria, they themselves would require justification. In the end, the whole matter is intuition. As for the criteria, I recommend asking people whose field of work this is.