"If orthodoxy seems puritanical to you today, maybe it’s less because
it’s inherently anti-fun and anti-feelgood than because we live in a
society distinguished by such extraordinary excess—gluttonous,
libidinous, avaricious—that what a different era might recognize as a
healthy balance between asceticism and indulgence looks like hopeless
prudishness instead." - Ross Douthat
From this Slate discussion.
