Footnote: An author I'd read in some scifi story or something similar had suggested that the mark of our era was the relentless pursuit and shaming of hypocrisy

Footnote: An author I'd read in some scifi story or something similar had suggested that the mark of our era was the relentless pursuit and shaming of hypocrisy. That was "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson. Lots of other interesting sociocultural post-scarcity speculation there, too.