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I thought it was just more railing against the strictures of convention; you can't find beauty in traditional forms, you can't find love in the restraints of traditional society. I thought we were supposed to remark how much better things are now than then, how much freer society is, how much less bound by stupid conventions and blind morality. I found it very self-congratulatory. In short, I thought that the stance against the age's morality implied a stance against its form, because I don't think you can ever really separate form from content so neatly. I thought it was congratulating us on our contemporary formlessness, one of the things I hate the most about today's society.
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