> they won most of the cultural battles. That's because the upper echelons correctly understood that culture is largely window-dressing, as long as the fundame

> they won most of the cultural battles. That's because the upper echelons correctly understood that culture is largely window-dressing, as long as the fundamental economic ballasts remain the same. They will let us dye our hair blue, what matters is that we keep working in their factories/shops/call-centres/banks/etc, making money for them; and if we bootstrap something else, it will inevitably be absorbed back into the system once a little greed creeps in. What they cared about was killing collectivism, which was the real threat to the economic order, and they largely achieved that.