Originally Posted by mirosurabu

It takes just a little bit of honesty, really. Consider that our tastes evolve as we grow up. We laugh at our past selves for having worse taste than we have today. We look at ourselves from the past as if we were a different person and we point with our finger and say "man, what a terrible taste you have!" It is from this personal sense of progress, from seeing ourselves as a different person at each point in time, as sometimes worse and sometimes better, that we proceed to generalize our views. Our generalizations may be wrong, that is true, but that's a different matter.