I've now decided that my next project will be a sociology of taste--particularly wine tasting. If you're like me, you've tried tasting wine before. When the "sommelier" says "hmm...can you taste the wood? it's almost cinnamon-y" or maybe "it has a slightly chocolatey almost coffee-like flavor," am I the only one who can't taste it but believes and pretends it's there? Am I the only one who has at one time or another thought that the sommelier was only making it up? Am I the only one that "started to taste it" after thinking about it for a long time?
How is our very sensuousness (thought to be entirely personal and internal) influenced by the social? Now, we're not talking about a Bourdieuian type status/class/stratification of sensuousness issue...that wouldn't be so interesting, but what if our own senses really got reprogrammed by social influence? As in, I now taste in this wine, what I believe coffee to taste like, really, in my taste buds, as far as I can tell.
Ok, we need to develop this one a little bit...it is but a seed of an idea.
"Competification" : the act of bringing another person into competition (of course, I recognize that it is impossible to compete without the second person accepting a competitive relationship, but let us simply recognize that one person generally initiates the competition, and the second person simply complies due to necessity)
"Competiphile" : one who constantly initiates competitive relationships whether consciously or sub/unconsciously.
I think I'm being competified by a competiphile, and I don't like it. I'm not quite sure how to deal with it right now. Perhaps I will simply flash the "M."
eh, I'm tired.
Love,
Monica.
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