G. K. Chesterton was an English Christian apologist writer in the early 20th century. He noted where the culture was heading and precisely predicted,

“We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which furious party cries will be raised against anybody who says that cows have horns, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening mob with the news that grass is green.”

He saw the emergence and embrace of a nihilistic worldview.