'...one thing that everybody has begun to sense in recent years is that a set of tripwires have been laid across the culture. Whether placed by individuals, collectives or some divine satirist, there they have been waiting for one person after another to walk into them. Sometimes a person's foot has unwittingly nicked the tripwire and they have immediately blown up. On other occasions people have watched some brave madman walking straight into no man's land, fully aware of what they are doing. After each resulting detonation there is some disputation (including the occasional "coo" of admiration) and the world moves on accepting that another victim has been notched up to the odd, apparently improvisatory value system of our time.'
Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity, p.5.
