The fences are down

Indeed, the MMO [modern moral order] is the “ethical base” for the soft relativism of the expressivist imaginary: Do your own thing, who am I to judge? The only sin is intolerance. Here is where Taylor locates the most significant shift in the post-'60s West: while ideals of tolerance have always been present in the modern social imaginary, in earlier forms (Locke, the early American republic, etc.) this value was contained and surrounded by other values that were a scaffolding of formation (e.g., the citizen ethic; p. 484). What erodes in the last half century is precisely these limits on individual fulfillment (p. 485).—James K. A. Smith, How (Not) to Be Secular, 87