Three Model Organisms For Taste

Third installment of a taste series, using three 'model organisms' to probe aesthetics. Reddit vexillology: the 'simple enough for a child / rule of tincture' flag commandments are likely obsolete craft-artifacts (and pseudo-history) mistaken for timeless truths, part of the same 200-year minimalism zeitgeist that plainened prose, architecture and dress. Movie plot holes: does noticing them signal better taste, or just uber-nerdery (the Ultra-Man blaster-range pedant vs the wine aristocrat)? Tech company names: 'Infinita' is tasteless as an 'easy win' / manipulation, while 'Vitalia' earns the same trick through cleverness -- gesturing at what he dislikes about cliche-stringing (the AI-poetry example) even within his 'contra everyone on taste' stance.

Quality 66 · Strong. Strong/Solid edge. A genuinely interesting model-organism approach to aesthetics, with the flags-as-obsolete-craft-rules and 'easy win' observations the strongest bits -- but it's a scattered middle installment, three loosely-joined vignettes that raise more than they resolve.

Claude’s paradigm shift 46 · Moderate. Moderate. The 'model organisms for taste' framing and the craft-artifact reading of aesthetic rules are mildly fresh; mostly exploratory.

Real-world impact 1 · Negligible. Negligible. Aesthetics blog discourse. 0-1 band.