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Full Idea
To a large degree people now think, talk and act as if emotivism was true, no matter what their avowed theoretical standpoint may be. Emotivism has become embodied in our culture.
Gist of Idea
Nowadays most people are emotivists, and it is embodied in our culture
Source
Alasdair MacIntyre (After Virtue: a Study in Moral Theory [1981], Ch. 2)
Book Ref
MacIntyre,Alasdair: 'After Virtue: a Study in Moral Theory' [Duckworth 1982], p.21
A Reaction
I suspect that it is moderately educated people who have swallowed emotivism, in the same way that they have swallowed relativism; it provides an excuse for neglectly the pursuit of beauty, goodness and truth, in favour of pleasure.