[MurrietaMadman]

I purchased "The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship" written by Phillip and Paul Collins a few years back. They write of all the usual suspects behind the normalizing deviance technique from an unusual perspective.

I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning. For myself, as no doubt for most of my contemporaraies, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation.

The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain system of morality.

We objected to the morality, because it interfered with our sexual freedom. We objected to the political and economic system, because it was unjust.

The supporters of these systems claim that in some way they embodied the meaning-- a Christian meaning, they insisted-- of the world.

There was one admirably simple method of confusing these people and at the same time justify ourselves in our political and erotic revolt. We could deny that the world had any meaning whatsoever. (Huxley, Ends and Means p. 27, 1937)

[livius]

Interesting.