The whole turn from skepticism and New atheism dominating the culture to the backlash and resurgence of religious and conservative mores in some parts of public life and the Net is probably mainly due to the fact that modern engineering couldn’t deliver on continuous progress.

I distinctly remember that most arguments about science and its proof of being true and the only methodology for truth was directly related to its effects in creating modern society and its comforts - planes, Internet, etc. But it didn’t last forever. Products became worse...

food and water is full of random chemicals, people are getting fatter, nutritional science is bunk, people are over educated and doctors prey on patients, the opioid crisis hit hard, tech and computers became more bloated and fragile, the economy sputtered out, and science...

having no moral vision of its own, had to retreat to the standard leftism of the skeptics that used it, but eventually it had to cater to their ideology and people saw through that. People who became disenchanted with social progressivism had to abandon scientist. With these...

conditions, it’s no surprise that there’s an atavistic revival of older thought. Many point to stuff like GamerGate and SJWs as being the cause but it was just a symptom of a deeper problem of needing to generate infinite progress to validate that mode of thought.