I don't think our society has abandoned our principles, I think these principles are being shoved out of our society, and the people doing the shoving want us to think it's a natural development. I see signs that our real principles and values are still within the majority of people's hearts.

Consider how woke movies keep doing extremely poorly in both theaters and streaming services. The last 3 (woke) Disney animated movies tanked. Sure, people might go to movies less because of the cost (even though Top Gun Maverick was a huge hit). But people pay for streaming by the month and they're not watching the woke stuff on streaming at home, either. People are not watching content they've already paid for.

Also, if the woke, social justice, feminist, socialist ideology really was a natural development, would government need to enact such harsh penalties to try to keep us in line? We would just act and speak in woke ways as naturally as we breathe. But even committed wokeys can't keep pronouns straight for more than 2-3 sentences.

I'm so glad you mentioned "Turnabout Intruder." I re-watched that episode recently. Did you know Shatner won an Emmy for that performance? He and the actress playing Janice Lester did really good work portraying how an effort of will cannot keep clues of the individual's real sex suppressed.

There's so much in Star Trek TOS about the physical elements of human nature. The distinct nature of men and women, our need for each other, our mortality -- are all lost in later Star Trek, and other more recent sci fi. I think that's why there's so many dreadful Woke Trek projects. They flood the market with Woke Trek so the gems in the oldest episodes are buried and forgotten. Same with Star Wars, Indiana Jones, James Bond, and superheroes (even the female superheroes have been woke-i-fied, made into lesbians, race swapped, etc.). People aren't buying what the wokeys are selling.