The sad fact seems to be ,that those who fight injustice often end up worse tyrants when they attain the Holy Grail of power.Setting up "free and equitable societies is relatively simple....Removing the greed and thist for power and control from the human mind is much harder.   During my life most of the change i have seen ,both technalogical and political has been for the worse ,if looked at in the long term view. You say that the fundamentalist religions have lost power in the last hundred years, but that horror of horrors ,global capitalism, has gained power in thousand folds.Ake.