Perhaps I should have added more context to my post at the cost of concisness. Obviously I was not suggesting that literally saying everything that becomes popular is hated by everyone. As you say the internet would be rejected by early adopters and presumably in turn by everyone, society would be in a constant state of flux as all commodities went through the process of release, growth, maturity and decline very rapidly.Squallie Greenthumb said:
I do though doubt that (at the time of my first post) less than twenty percent of people disliked something and it was foregrounded in its popularity. Sub cultural theory (specifically the work of Hebbidge and Thornton) highlights the ubiquity of taste in relation to others. For most people the hatred of a pop star (for example) may well be informed by them representing a corporate monolith that stands in opposition to their pure as the driven snow untainted by capitalism choice of music. I honestly believe (unfortunately I don't have the studies to hand) that many peoples opinions are heavily mediated by the opinions of others (myself included) and by the status of commodities within their life cycle.
Once the LA Noire hype has died down I will be taking "my" cycle of films, including pre-noir, the much contested classic period, neo-noir, post-noir, tech-noir and euro-noir back and as you say nurse them back to health to sit alongside my other interests that are ruined by other people (tounge in cheek, although I hasten to add I do see your point and was inevitably and sorely dissapointed by what I have played of LA Noire).
