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For instance, his critique of abstract art questions who truly judges what’s “good,” highlighting a societal trend toward relativism—the idea that perception is subjective and that there’s no objective reality. The speaker ties this back to the decline of faith, asserting that when people stop believing in a divine Creator who ordains moral and perceptual order, they descend into skepticism and fragmentation. The result is a society obsessed with “shapes,” “shadows,” and “illusions,” losing sight of what is truly real and good.