Maybe revolutionary things have to be counterculture because if not they don't get a chance to breathe and sort themselves out before the establishment co-opts them.

There is likely some corner of the internet which is experiencing some of the things we complain about, but neither you, me, or any of us here feel/are invited.

I've been wondering very recently if these social cycles (like fashion, the tech pendulum) are less a cynical play by capitalists and collective amnesia by the young, and more a moral equivalent of molting, where we slough off our old skin and get a chance to grow and be shiny for a bit before everything settles back into normal again. Maybe that's why the other two hominids died out and we remained.