We the people

Why do virtually all the lead writers and pundits, the political commentators and the social commentators all declare their willingness to see the world reformed in a way in which the past is demonised and the future spoken of as an opportunity.

All the "isms" which we have been warned are no go areas of debate, racism, sexism, xenophobia, and the sub areas of fat'ism, thin'ism, behavioural problems, mental issues the list goes on and on. Enter at your peril to suggest that being more conservative in the way a young woman might dress or behave, is to bring the weight of the feminist world down on your shoulder in their proclaiming its a woman's right to dress as they wish, to drink as much as they wish to walk late at night where they wish and if they become lured into some situation where they are raped then the whole blame is on the rapist.

I can hear the crackle of static on the line now. How dare I compound the underlying primeval forces that lurk in all animals, (we after all are animals with a heavy coating of rules and regulations covering our actions) which rely on codes and signals to constrain or otherwise our actions with those precious rights and privilege they value above all else.

The writers and opinion former's would have us believe that our past was littered with tomfoolery that the customs and the warnings regarding behaviour, for instance was a slight to our innate "right" to be what ever we wish to be. "Our right" trumps any debate on any subject. Promiscuousness is encouraged, not only from a sexual aspect but from a whole range of interaction, lacking standards, acting without carefully judgement, indiscriminate, little forethought or critical judgement. These are the judgements from the past, which in this modernist world have no place in this frenzy to proclaim our rights. "Rights without responsibility", an anathema to people born in an age when personal constraint was seen as a good quality something to be proud of something which weighed your character against the illicit pleasures all men and women are prone to. 
The commentariat have nothing but disdain for people who ask questions and query the projected path. For them the issues are set in aspic they are founded on the inalienable right of people to be respected for what they are but without the important caveat that I also have the "right" to disagree.
To close down debate on the basis that it's not in "societies" interest is an arrogant conceit, a conceit emphasised by the assumptions of Brexit and the rise of Donald.