Only awakening I've noticed is in my mother. I've been telling her to buy gold since the GIM days, since she is retired and worried about money, she'd rather go to H&R Block... About a year ago, she was on this "What if the economy collapses?" kick... after 4 or 5 years she finally started "getting" it.
I remember when I moved back in for a couple months 3 or so years ago I was drunk and going on and on about how our government is killing the middle east with depeated uranium shells, the bullets and every thing "Do you think that a government that would do that cares about you?, The entire country of Iraq will be a cancer incubator for centuries! and you think they give a fuck about your money?! They want you to die so you don't collect social security, THEY WANT YOU TO GET CANCER!!! Why do you think our water has flouide, our drinks have HFC and aspartimine, and our food has HGMs and bromine and all kinds of shit! It's a CULT of DEATH!"
Still can't live that one down lol.