"I am not sad that Black Americans are rebelling; this was not only inevitable but eminently desirable. Without this magnificent ferment among Negroes, the old evasions and procrastinations would have continued indefinitely... radical reconstruction of society itself is the real issue to be faced... Today's dissenters tell the complacent majority that the time has come when further evasion of social responsibility in a turbulent world will court disaster and death. America has not changed because so many don't think it need change." - Martin Luther King Jr., "A Testament of Hope," 1969

has the silent majority only grown and become more complacent since?

Regardless of which version of events is followed, it seems fair to say that some level of intoxication was involved in the development of the maze algorithm.

"The basic maze generating routine had been partially written by a stoner who had left. I contacted him to try and understand what the maze generating algorithm did. He told me it came upon him when he was drunk and whacked out of his brain, he coded it up in assembly overnight before he passed out, but now could not for the life of him remember how the algorithm worked."

Sidley also observed that the maze code was uncommented, and when asked about the 32-byte table said ‘It was a mystery to me too, I couldn’t unscramble it. I just used it to generate the new row at the bottom of the screen.’