Old Time Religion... 02

Currently, there is a much increased, and growing, fear of loss of present status, as so many fail to understand the revolution being caused by modern technology. Sadly, there is ridiculously high level of ignorance even concerning evolution, never mind revolution!
In my view, for the present appallingly low level of understanding throughout the world, the world's so-called educators, the "intellectual elite", must face up to failure on it's part, over the past 40 years.
What can the reasons be for the backward-slide, plain greed, fear, or just plain stupidity?
It is so easy to recognise that the controlling norms, values, thinking in today's world are rooted in the economic/political needs of the industrialied age, and are imbued with social-control applications acceptable during the Dark Ages and colonial times.
But their inadequacy in today's world has been demonstrated by many failures in the past 100 years. Probably the easiest, recent, example to use is the mp3 revolution. As hinted at in "Power Shift" by Alvin Toffler, more than 10 years ago,access to the
Internet, world-wide, might shake the foundations of many persons and even professions!
No national administration in the world can have the same smug sense of certainty that was customary only 20 years ago!
Just as bloggers have caused ripples within the so-called news media, they may soon be questioning the wisdom of reactionary attempts to preserve as "sacred cows" such concepts as "Capitalism" which even today has many of the world's better educated younger generation enslaved in the service of capital.
Should capital not be used in the service of humanity?

Old Time Religion On The Wane

Historically, old time religion may well have seemed an essential provider of social cohesion during the past centuries of industrialisation, but it clearly has overstayed it's welcome.
This is nowhere more evident than in America, where the true freedom-loving spirit went into decline during the last 30 years of the 20th century. The '50s and the '60s in America each witnessed a great freedom-thing and, interestingly, both were initiated by women.
The '50s had Rosa Parks simply decide she had had enough of being treated like a second-class citizen because of the colour of her skin, and the '60s had Madlyn o Hare win a court case to have the coercive recitation of prayer banned in state funded schools.
Freedom-loving America was at it's peak!
Reaction was bound to follow, and America's intellectual elite, it's so-called educators, sat on their hands (or maybe played fiddles) and watched it happen.
Denial is a nasty hangover from colonial times, the Dark Ages, and not just a Catholic thing, either. It's about a middle class (real or imagined) being proud to be a middle class, and fearful of losing that "status"!