-> Thus it will be a LONG time until our brains catch up 
-> with our technology and society.

-> Look how effective religious and political pandering to emotion
-> over issues is :-( 

Your two comments are tied together. It is the rapid technological
advances taking place nowadays that are not leaving enough time for
societies to assimilate them. The pandering had almost stopped when the
scientific revolution took place in Greece (if I remember correctly) but
then 2 things happened. 1) Suddenly the pace was reckless resulting in
specialization and 2) Christianity started to take hold. Interestingly,
while the counter force of Christianity might have made things saner it
did not. Its impact was greater on society and less on science, which
continued at a more subdued rate with fewer followers. The result was
that more and more people needed to be pandered. The "big why" no longer
concerned with understanding how things worked and why but on who
created this and how to keep that thing happy. It was a golden time for
priests. They pandered the public like billy-o before pulling the rug
and plunging them into fear of hell.

Things haven't changed much. That need is still the same, religion is
still filling it, and science is too busy building more and more speed
and even more specialists.

History repeats itself.

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Jitender Saan