The Authority of the Individual Feelings, Beliefs and Ideas

David Frum: How did we get to a point where democracy puts so much primacy on the authority of human feelings, beliefs and ideas and emotions? He says technology is breaking down are the stories that we've now collectively told ourselves about our own meaning and emotions. The big turning point was the west, around the eighteenth century - it shifted the source of authority inside humans. It's not the laws of natureit certainly not some book written by priests two thousand years ago. It's your heart. That's it. Good is whatever feels good. Ifwe don't careyo, you're corrupt.