Actually, the reality is that the world does change, and who the people are in power also change. We are poised right now on the brink of major change on global scale. We have never in recorded history, been on the brink of changing the entire globe from the feudal state to the democratic state. That is the precipice upon which the world is precariously teetering back and forth on right now.

The patricians of fundamentalist Christianity, fundamentalist Judaism, fundamental Hinduism, fundamental Buddhism, and fundamentalist Islam have one thing in common. Their fear of free, democratic, equitable societies. Their fear is well founded. In societies where progress has been made on the fundamentals they hold so dear, like transformation of the class/caste, gender, and racial/ethnic hierarchies, they have lost a considerable amount of power in the past 200 years.

People everywhere need to be clear about these things. Don't let the porn peddlers and sparklie sellers hypnotize you into political somnambulism. That's where too many people are hiding away these days. In that grey, murky, nebulous world of "don't make any difference, so don't give a shit" amorality. What we do does make a difference. A huge difference. Feudal warlords can only win in the democratic societies, if we let them defeat us. We do have the power to beat them back, over and over and over, until sometime in the distant future when they are finally defeated. I personally believe this will happen long before the sun runs out of energy.