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When unpleasantness is called entertainment, when excessive sadism, extreme violence, murder, homosexuality, promiscuity, adultery, and pornography are the nourishment of leisure hours, then values are very low. Audiences demand such strong sensations, the purveyors claim: they are uninterested in moral innocence and find no attraction in calm characters. But it is not less true that the entertainers deliberately set out to stimulate these decadent attitudes.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 1 : Appreciation > # 208