1915 to 1965 vs 1965 to 2015

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I'm not so sure about this  The 1950's were so intensely socially conservative in so many respects.

I think you are confusing the actual 1950s - a time of rapid social change and cultural vibrancy across the industrialised world West and East - with the strange fantasy 1950s that often pervades American political discourse.

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Nietzsche had himself been dead for half a century by that point, dear.

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Academia wishes it was that influential. Actually academia wishes it was about 5% as influential...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I think it would be a shock to someone in the 60s that we would have tiny computers that can fit in the palm of our hand yet still hadn't been to Mars.

Well someone from the 1960s would have been surprised by PCs even, yet strangely when they were introduced not that many years later they did not cause a massive cultural shock. Techheads are apt to exaggerate the extent to which breakthroughs of that sort matter to people.