Fending. People are fending off the truth to defend their sacred cows.
One of the most holy bovine of the era was the Peace and Love movement. It was a great idea for selling psychedelic nonsense, music and STD remedies, creating single-parent homes, and for convincing foreign miscreants that we were going to be a soft target. We exported way too much of this into Canada, and we can now see in Toronto the clear results of this failed experiment in cultural masochism.
We elected folks like Marion Barry, and Canadians elected folks like Rob Ford. <big headsmack> (RIP both of those turds) <\smack>
This is kind of a watershed time in my mind. The pendulum of social inertia has halted in mid air, and the societal fringes writhe in fear as it starts to reverse.
And reverse it must, as no culture succeeds with leaders like Ford or Barry.
We are living in hangtime buddy, but eventually gravity must rule. That pendulum we keep lofting with the hot air from burning trillion$ in borrowed cash will not ignore gravity & the cash must & will run out. The swing will reverse, and as the pendulum picks up speed, sacred cows will be swatted aside like flies by the realities that have become apparent.