SINCE THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION, the West has engaged in a project of limit-destruction in the name of the sanctity of desire. Boundaries are there to be transgressed in the name of self-expression. The Id has been unleashed and fantasy is no longer a matter for private dabbling, but public display.
We have replaced older virtues — fidelity, forbearance, duty — with new modes of living: desire is unbounded, love is love and the freedom of the individual are the highest goods. The problem with our unshackled, “liberated” universe is, of course, the unwillingness of reality and Nature herself to bend to our will. We thus increasingly find ourselves at odds with what we want to be
