> Nonconformity to the cultural zeitgeist is more acceptable now than it has ever been.

Until covid it looked to be true yet they reached to the same tools without a second thought

But it is true in that it turns around more quickly - it only took two years to understand the absurdity of COVID measures from mandatory masking to indoor lockdowns and vaccine passports - in the past that would have taken 50 years

so yes we are in a much better place