Response to Kait

In response to Kait’s question, “is Hume being an elitest in his statement "some work is better than others, and some people are better suited to tell us so," or is he just telling the truth?”
Hume most definitely is an elitist. Despite his claim that subjectivity is always right, he still asserts that there are some objective truths which only a select few individuals are aware of. This is a classic form of elitism.
But he is also just telling the truth as he sees it in accordance with his philosophy. Hume, I believe, was not trying to raise those select few above the rest of society; he was only stating that most people’s perception is distorted to explain the cause of subjectivity. This claim inherently holds that there are some people whose perception is not as distorted and so are better suited to give opinions of art. So yes, Hume was just telling the truth—however, how truthful it actually was depends on the accuracy of his philosophy.
QUESTION: If people’s accuracy of perception (in accordance with Hume) was presented in a graph, would it fall into a normal bell curve?