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Your last full paragraph seems so on target for the time. Gulliver's changes in perspective are abrupt. Though people have talked about it all along, Timothy Snyder observes in a very recent New Yorker essay how we nonetheless failed to take in the full scale of the transformation: "Fascism is now in the algorithms, the neural pathways, the social interactions. How did we fail to see all this?"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/dispatches/what-does-it-mean-that-donald-trump-is-a-fascist?utm_source=pocket_shared

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