Just Because a Group is in Formation Doesn’t Mean They Know Where They are Going

“Contemporary authors, playwrights and poets thus find themselves in a disconcerting dilemma. If they attempt to delineate an ideal, they are accused snobbery, of being anti-proletarian, illiberal, undemocratic and, in certain instances, racist. Accordingly, all but a dwindling minority have chosen to join the ‘Raskolnikovian’ ranks of iconoclasts, consoling themselves with the thought that they are allied to ‘progress’ and apparently forgetting that the Gadarene swine were also ‘progressing’ as they rushed headlong to destruction” (Duncan Williams, Trousered Apes, p. 95).