A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves to changes in the ex… - Carroll Quigley

...in our society... this has now become a propagandist system in which emphasis is put on the future... the ideology against which the young people of the 1950's and 1960's rebelled. Future preference: plan; study hard; save.

This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astronomical periodicities on which there influence was originally based. With the surplus thus created, the priesthood was able to command human labor in huge amounts and to direct this labor from the simple tillage of the peasant peoples to the diversified and specialized activities that constitute civilized living.

Closely related to the erroneous idea that science is a body of knowledge is the equally erroneous idea that scientific theories are true.