" Suppose that this reading of history is correct. Today’s creative elites are not just overwhelmingly secular but often hostile to the idea that transcendental goods have any meaning. Such is the reason to fear that well-made entertainments are as much as we can hope for. Great art requires a source of inspiration that the people who produce those entertainments are not tapping. "

― Charles Murray , Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950