We are surrounded by invisible technologies and a change in social and psychological attitudes. The changes you had in the ’60s were all up front; now they’re much more difficult to read and in a way much more threatening.
“A single rose, a gorgeous sunset, the intricate design of what had previously been an “ugly” insect—I cannot guess what she saw, but she saw. And in excitement and rapture, she cried out to her mate (whatever form of “marriage” they had in those days) “Oh, look at this, look!” and he looked and he saw. And beauty was created in a world that had been flat and dead and meaningless until that moment.“
Robert Anton Wilson