We were warned, or were we?

The Contrarian points out that we were warned, or were we, that:

Capitalism could become more invasive, exploitative and manipulative even beyond the wildest imagining

that materialism, agnosticism and atheism at would reachunprecedented levels in the West?  That our children would be charged an arm and a leg
to get a 'higher' education.

And that pornography would now be utterly commonplace – if not ubiquitous, and the day of Playboy, Penthouse would in retrospect seem relatively innocent

and that finally, advertising from  Silicon Valley would lobotomise us all