I'm being a little imprecise with my terminology, sorry about that. > It has been around since at least the 1960s and has always been controversial. It has be

I'm being a little imprecise with my terminology, sorry about that. > It has been around since at least the 1960s and has always been controversial. It has been around since the 1960s, as an academic curiosity. In the last half decade to decade, it metastasized into the rest of society and embedded itself deeply, almost religiously, into all of the institutions that shape our discourse. There's no such thing as a society-wide consensus, on pretty much anything (you can even find thoughtful "legalize possession of child porn" takes, like Falkvinge's). But institutional consensus is as close as we come to this, and has real and significant coercive (and doctrinal) power in the form of the media, university curriculums, HR departments, PR departments, etc etc etc.