I grew up during the Earth First! movement which started in the late 1970s on the coattails of various other forms of environmental civil disobedience and tree

I grew up during the Earth First! movement which started in the late 1970s on the coattails of various other forms of environmental civil disobedience and tree hugging. I think what's changed today is that due to the national debt etc, most of us know that things are going wrong but we're so disenfranchised/disempowered that we feel helpless to do anything about it, even if we wanted to or knew we wanted to. It's not just that we haven't had a raise in 20-40 years, but that our bosses haven't had one, and neither have their bosses. We've reached chronic, systemic ineffectualism. It changes things when we go from a "how do we stop those guys" perspective to a "how do we start helping society fix things" perspective.