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@astra, do you understand the concept of a "high watermark"?
Beethoven symphonies, Shakespeare plays, Da Vinci paintings, french cuisine etc. They represent "high watermarks" in some field of human creative endeavour.
Now, you may particularly enjoy death metal, McMeals or pulp fiction better, but you know mankind has once beat these in sheer sophistication, scope, inventiveness and mastery of the craft...
so, while the concept of great may vary from individual to individual, we can certainly know when we're in the presence of something so far removed from the ordinary that it escapes personal tastes, like standing next to the millenary heights of the egyptian pyramids...
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