The age of trivia

“I may disagree with what you say but I will defend to death your right to say it.”

When Voltaire allegedly said this (it might have been Lady Macbeth for all we know)
Did he reckon with a time where popular culture will be defined by Paris Hilton and Christina Aguilera. I have a feeling that if he was alive, he would have either turned sociopath or religious.

Oh ! The ancients had it right when men were men, women were women and decadent babble was just that.

Not like present where modern concsiouness is tangled in the latest whims of chattering classes and coherence is lost between markers like metrosexual, retrosexuals or contrasexuals indicative of intellectual feebleness and superficiality.