Had this thought. What's changed, besides technology? Really what is causing people who mostly would not think about freedom to begin thinking - and even organizing?

The interesting thing is that, with unemployment going way up among most classes, people have more time to read, to listen, to converse and even create content. Especially when they try to create content, they have motivation to learn. And that's when they learn about freedom. They become aware of a lack of some freedom. And in order to be able to speak, they study a little bit first.

Whereas when most people are busy and specialized, always working, they just accept what happens, good or bad, and don't have time to think. So paradoxically, in prosperous times, prosperous because free, and everybody has something to do and is not limited artificially in doing, freedom and ideas of freedom decline. Leads to decrease of freedom. Which is correlated with prosperity. Suddenly people are not so busy. And also not as satisfied. They start thinking about freedom. ...