In the US, I am astounded at what is commonly accepted now. Not all that long ago, most people would have thought even the level of surveillance that we accept right now was an impossibly orwellian thing that would never have been accepted.

Yet here we are. I even see people arguing regularly here on HN that these are good things, when just 30 or so years ago, these would have been things that we would have rioted to prevent.

I have come to think that there is no amount of oppression that Americans can't be convinced into.