And when has that not been the case? Careful....
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That's always how it is. In fact, "moment lock" is kind of a misnomer.
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People notice things at different rates and levels or curves of intensity. When I was real little my family watched All In the Family. It took them until the second season to realize, the show was *not* about Archie setting people straight. I'm not kidding. Then it became forbidden TV.
People were giggling to Divine before they knew who Divine was. And Paris was Burning long before Tony asked about it in a phone call with Carmella as a writer's joke in The Soprano's.
But let's cut to the chase. As some have said, just wait till we get to the cyberpunk stage. In some wats it6's alredy HaPPenneD
Hey, why is it called black ice? Why not yellow ice? Why not orange? Why's it gotta be black ice?
-- failed Black sci-fi nerd comedy routine, 1989.
The Techno-viking is retired and knitting wool socks for sick children in his old age and slow kids still screaming about wierdos on the internet. This is just what it's gonna be like for a while.