“The problem of upholding virtue and denouncing vice without appearing priggish, killjoy, bigoted, and narrow-minded has become so acute that intellectuals are now inclined either to deny that there is a distinction between the two or to invert their value. There is no higher word of praise in an art critic’s vocabulary, for example, than ‘transgressive,’ as if transgression were in itself good, regardless of what is being transgressed. Likewise, to break a taboo is to be hero, irrespective of the content of the taboo. Who is more contemned than he who clings stubbornly to old moral insights?” (Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture, What’s Left of It, p. 127-128).
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