How old are you X, I’m 50?
Younger than that. I do remember a little of the crazy talk of the 70s.
Some of the changes set in motion back then had a major effect in the country over the past 30 years, but I don't think you have all the "Summer of Love"/"Days of Rage" madness now that you had back then.
If you want to say the country's more liberal than back then, go ahead. If you want to say it's crazier or more likely to fall into the abyss, I'd argue with that.
Maybe it's a glass half-empty/glass half-full thing. From what I can gather you didn't have teachers talking about multiculturalism or homosexuality in the schools forty years ago, but the fact that kids hear that from teachers may make them less likely to believe it.