|
The vise-grip of moral relativism on American popular culture was not suddenly achieved in the 1960s. This alluring but poisonous philosophy's hundred-year conquest of the instititions that shape the popular mind - art, music, architecture, film, and of course, television - is the subject of this incisive study by Robert Knight, a front-lines combatant in the post-modern culture wars. Knight begins with a reminder of the imperfect but healthy society we inhabited before the ideology of self-gratification released the host of social pathologies from which we now suffer. He then guides the reader on a historical tour of the organs of modern popular culture, documenting the nearly unhindered march of relativism - led by a vanguard of decadent elites - through modern art and the media.
|
