I grew up in the '50s and early '60s. Looking back, I feel as if I witnessed the sunset of virtue in our society.
Virtues are ideals people hold as standards by which to pattern their lives.
Yet our culture's intellectually and popularly accepted concepts of virtue have eroded almost to non-existence. They are faint vapors on our horizons from our civilizational past. And the darkness is deepening. This darkness has always been. Until now, however, it has always drawn our collective cultural contempt and strongest resistance.