I’ve been thinking about Alan McKee’s ideas on ‘interpretation’ on a broader scale. While he was talking in the context of ’text’, it can easily be applied to ideas in general.

The current culture has a seriously problem of conflating morals with ideas. Since they consider morality to be absolute, they use this to judge notions from a ‘right vs wrong’ standpoint. Reducing a conversation to a simple ‘yes or no’ answer prevents any type of discourse to be had.

Purely in the context of ‘texts’, many forget that a ‘text’ is usually art, and art is exempt from morality. Criticism is separate entity, but when your criticisms come from a moral place, well, you are the one who is wrong.

Nothing is sacred.