Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station

I'm going to assume that you're talking about at least a simplification of conventionally accepted "good technique" a la music schools, private music teachers, etc., sure.

But to an extent, assuming that there are anything like universals in that realm is a fiction, and why would we kowtow to it and pretend that it's anything more than it is, re using it to refer to a "favorite"/"best" distinction? That just promotes misconceptions and fallacies--it leads folks to accept argumentum ad populums as having some sort of weight for truth value. It doesn't make the supposed distinction conceptually coherent. Why promote something incoherent?

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.