This is partly driven by fear of the de facto activists (graduates) that graduate from ideological bootcamps (universities) and infiltrate (join the ranks of)

This is partly driven by fear of the de facto activists (graduates) that graduate from ideological bootcamps (universities) and infiltrate (join the ranks of) corporations, and partly fear of activists in the media. Frankly, much of the activism we're seeing isn't all that dangerous to get behind and parrot given the current climate, so there's no real swimming upstream here (what's more "risky" at most colleges: being conservative or liberal? Which would make you terminally unhip?). Many students simply absorb the worldview imparted to them by university education (+ media and primary ed) without ever really stopping to consider any of it. So if you want a glimpse of tomorrow, look to what college students are learning today. So there's an element of concerted political action (surveillance, the fusion of state and corporation, radical social changes esp. where human sexuality is concerned), but a good dose of the logic of the culture playing out. Ideas have consequences. It just takes a while for them to unfold. It would however be foolish to ignore the oligarchic dimension of it all. Plato's Republic has much to say about this and it rings eerily true.