I think if you go back to the 80s, you'd find all those things as well. The Regan Revolution(albeit with more explictly religious overtones) was pretty much pre

I think if you go back to the 80s, you'd find all those things as well. The Regan Revolution(albeit with more explictly religious overtones) was pretty much premised on this idea. Once it was overwhelmed by it's own moral bankruptcy, not to mention being the cause of several financial collapses, it stopped wasting time on these kinds of illusions. Tech industry isn't there yet, but it looks to be headed in the same direction.