What do you miss in the present? Counterculture is always captured and packaged, you can buy punk T-shirts in mainstream brand stores for ten bucks now. I think the main point to understand is that the masses will never want what we want, need and do build. They will oppose it. Even though they'll say they want the good parts. The existence of that ten bucks punk T-shirt does not mean there are real punks out there. Even within the Bitcoin ecosystem we'll be a tiny fraction. But still we're bigger and better than old times.