Popularity isn't always poor quality

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laresSun 24/07/11 18:40

"Whenever a new Harry Potter comes out, in film or novel form, I have to avoid my brother. "Talking broomsticks! Magic pumpkins! Professor Wheezledon Hat!" he snarls, looking angrily up from a slim volume of Goethe. "What are you, a moron?"

From this, I infer that his day has already been ruined by reminders of this cultural juggernaut. Up early to marinate a piece of ox liver while listening to the Today programme, he'll have heard box-office figures at the end of the news. Or perhaps, tweedling between the cricket scores and a complicated symphony on Radio 3, he accidentally rolled past a two-for-one ticket offer on the sort of station I listen to. I'm glad it's the end. I'm tired of arguing the toss on Harry Potter with those who won't accept that age and genre transcendence is a sign of inherent quality, rather than of a dumbed-down culture."

"There is a certain sort of person who hates and mistrusts anything popular. Many more, without vitriol, will simply assume the mainstream can't be the best. Perhaps the tendency runs lightly through all of us: the instinct to champion a great film which nobody's heard of, while being disappointed by one that everyone else says is brilliant. Or the moment when a favourite band finally have a number one album and we think they've "sold out", genuinely believing their previous work was superior.

It isn't about jealousy, but it is a sort of misanthropy. Logically, having mass appeal is one indicator of quality. Unless you think the masses are idiots. If you are by nature a Basil Fawlty or a Blackadder, convinced you are surrounded by fools, then mass appeal becomes an immediate indicator of deficiency."

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