At least the distraction now isn’t blood on the sands of the arena, or burning witches. Most people want to be distracted most of the time, with sports, sex, drugs, music, movies, tv, books, learning new things, family... it’s called living. We can’t all be joyless pricks like Moore, who haven’t learned even the simplest lessons or history.

“There can be no disputing matters of taste.”

Counter-point: our traditional role models and real life heroes have proven to be so fallible that we are returning to folklore for models of what to aspire to.