“Believing as I do that the arts in general are not merely a mirror reflecting social and cultural values, but are, on the contrary, powerful forces which shape and mould the way in which people live and behave (a view, incidentally, held by every major literary critic from Plato to T.S. Eliot), I have examined contemporary literature, drama, music, painting and those two powerful ‘moulders’, the cinema and television. In all these various manifestations of the contemporary scene, one finds not only an absence of ‘moral control’ and ‘spiritual order’ but in most instances an overt and deep hostility to any such restraining concepts” (Duncan Williams, Trousered Apes, p. 152).
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