We live in an age in which what formerly would have been understood to be grave sin has been normalized. Both this fact and its consequences must be carefully explained to younger people, and indeed to many older people—Western society has been swimming in this muck for a very long time indeed.

The normalization of widespread wrongdoing does not remove the consequences. It does make us fail to connect our behavior with its consequences, though.

It falls to more enlightened people to tell the rest of us that it really is a dirty swamp we’re swimming in, and what it means. It’s been so long that these moralistic messages have been given voice, they sound edgy and fresh again. So there’s that, anyway.