Iconodules for Iconoclasm

The world is full of Iconodules posing as Iconoclasts.
This phrasing it is uncharitable because they sincerely perceive themselves to be iconoclastic, making it more of a mass intellectual tragedy than any kind of wicked subterfuge.

If one is going to go after sacred cows, one should really go after sacred cows. Most of the people in today who get credit for "going after sacred cows" are just going after unfashionable ones. At least ones that are unfashionable in the circles they want to appeal to. Many of them practice the respected art of speaking power to truth.

Likewise, most people who get credit for "thinking for themselves" in today's world are simply being praised for parroting fashionable tropes or for "questioning" the same norms the fashionable have been flogging for the last fourty or fifty years.

I can't claim to be an original thinker, but I do strive to think, and synthesize what I find to be valuable.