> questioning the government gets you labeled a conspiracy nut or traitor Happy to see someone else pointing this out. For someone who grew up in the 90s it's

> questioning the government gets you labeled a conspiracy nut or traitor Happy to see someone else pointing this out. For someone who grew up in the 90s it's weird how conventional and pro establishment the mainstream and especially more educated mindset is today. I think it's partly hidden because it's masked by the social liberalism. But ignore gay marriage and legal pot and this is the 1950s. Any serious and deep questioning of society or the power structure of the world is seen as either nutty or futile, whether it comes in the form of more educated criticism or its rougher more "punk" forms like conspiracy theory and counterculture. Today is like some bohemian version of the Eisenhower era. There is a kind of goofy new age "alt" thing with GMO food scares and such but it really strikes me as not only niche but unserious and toothless. It's almost more a form of entertainment than a serious counterculture. It also strikes me as a distraction with people getting angry at paper tigers like GMO food or nonexistent things like "chemtrails" instead of real issues. Edit: I also realize that this matches the tech cycle. The return of pro establishment thinking after 9/11 coincided with the end of the first PC era and the rebirth of the mainframe rebranded as "cloud." To what extent is cold sober engineering actually art, an expression of who we are at the time?