@Charles_in_Charge @pepsi_man @sun @Rasterman I don't disagree with you on that, but I believe the mocking was merely a symptom of the decline of the west, not it's cause. Just like the 1960s counterculture.
Today's conservatives (and also the "tradwife" movement as an example) often glorify the American 1950s, which were in fact an era of soulless consumerism - the 1960s probably were a mere reaction to this.
The seeds were sown much earlier and it no coincidence that Nietzsche claimed that "god was dead" in his day and age. He wouldn't have done it in the middle ages.
The roots of the rot probably lie in the industrial revolution which up-ended people's lives like no event since the neolithic revolution 10,000 years before.