In his famous speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention in Boston, Massachusetts, where he endorsed John Kerry as the Democratic candidate for president, Barack Obama, who was running for the U.S. Senate from Illinois, said: "Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America." Looking at the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign now more than a decade later, one wonders if anything has changed in the politics of anything goes that scares, polarizes and divides societies and the world at large.The phrase "anything goes" was used by the late Austrian-American philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend to challenge the rigid truth claims and strict methodism of classical positivism and scientism. Feyerabend held that an idealized view of science, which elevates science to the level of a semi-god, will turn it into a monster and fail to serve humanity's best interests. Instead, he offered a certain dose of theoretical anarchism. Scientific progress, he argued, takes places not only through the strict rules of scientific experimentation, but also through human connections, chance happenings, personal choices and coincidences. To use Thomas Kuhntarget="_blank"'>None of this entails cultural elitism. Some of the enduring pieces of art, culture, poetry, music and crafts have been produced by people gifted with a sense of beauty, nobility and proportion. Recovering these qualities can elevate our aesthetic sense and moral judgment without being elitist or narcissistic.