I just read a synopsis for a film that’s on the TV tomorrow
night. Apparently, it’s about a young man and woman who are ‘platonic friends
and sleep together, but determined not to become involved in a romantic
relationship.’
What? This is the sort of thing that has me running from
modern culture at a rate of knots. I might say for the benefit of those who are
not regular readers of this blog that my attitude has nothing to do with
religion or morality. It’s about standards – standards based on the not
unreasonable premise that the panoply of human experience grades through many
levels of nuance and significance, and even contains an element that might be termed
‘sacred.’ Treating everything as though it has no more value than a stick of
candyfloss is shallow and soulless. And it seems ironic that attitudes which style themselves ‘liberated’ are sometimes, as here, turning the culture an increasingly shabby shade of grey.
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