The late Science and Social Fiction writer Robert Anson Heinlein refered to the present and coming period as *The crazy years.* It appears that his prognostication was spot-on.
Interestingly, he saw it coming as far back as the early 1940s and predicted it as beginnings in the early 1960s.
Mr Heinlein was a real keen observer, of his fellow humans and other things.
Agreed. Read all his stuff as a teenager. Jerry Pournelle is at some level a Heinlein protege, runs what was arguably the first Internet blog, and brings to light many news items that tend to document Heinlein’s accurate prognostication.