Murderous 'enlightenment', wiping out the mind of a society and trying to make a 'tabula rasa' for delirious fantasies of paradise on Earth.
Always works out well.
(Soundtrack: Holiday in Cambodia by the Dead Kennedys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTsXHXMkJA )
In all seriousness...
The optimum in a complex multi-objective optimization problem is almost never at the edge, and nuances do in fact matter. It really feels like at some point circa the 1960s American society completely lost the ability to think in terms of anything other than immutable absolute dogmas (a.k.a. fundamentalism in all its forms) and simplified sound-bite slogans.