I’ve long understood that “winners” and “people/products with qualities that I like” are essentially orthogonal. Not a negative correlation, just no correlation at all.
Kind of a pity, because humans being social animals, there’s significant extra happiness in being able to enjoy something along with a large crowd of people enjoying the same thing.
That said, I’m a peon who cannot distinguish between Hirst’s art and the output of an imaginative, but self-absorbed 10-year old. However, in fairness, I’m willing to believe it’s a lack of education or artistic instinct in me.
Also, I’d be reluctant to conflate being a “winner” with “importance” (as measured by almost any scale outside of immediate financial gain).
