1. The punk-rock culture jammers of the 1970s told people to be ashamed of consumerism and to kill their televisions.

2. The Christian Right was hanging on by its fingernails for years, but it has been getting stronger lately.

3. The “Loompanics libertarians” of the pre-WWW era latched onto hundreds of privacy-protecting anonymity technologies and used them to keep weirdness and nonconformity alive on the Internet.

4. The “New Age” spiritual-but-not-religious crowd is weak, but it is HUGE. In fact, it is a modern version of the New Thought and Positive Thinking subcultures that were influential for decades since about 1850. And that weakly spiritual crowd has more sectarian fringes, such as Wiccans and Druids.

Many people feel no need to be Zizians because they have had some success keeping their souls alive.