What's it good for?

  Samuel P. Huntington was right, there will be and there is a clash of civilizations : He got the major forces completely wrong, though. While in many regions religions fight with each other because they persecute each other, that is laughably wrong on what will mold the future of civilizations.  The main fight is not religion vs. religion, but secularism and democracy vs. cronyism, theocracy, royalty and dictatorships .  Do humans take charge of their own governance or are they slaves to the group that happens to have some guns or claim to be able to give you ever-lasting life? I have my preferences. What are yours? From Wikipedia : Religion (the fake life offerors) has continued to decline, in the US less than half of people are members of any official religion. Change in religious identification, 1950 - 2020 Percentage of Americans by religious identification (1950 – 2020) [157]    Protestantism    Christian (nonspecified)    Catholicism ...

 If you're not familiar with the plot of docudrama "The Social Dilemma", go watch it now.  If you haven't seen it, the short summary is the following: Social network sites get paid for you to watch their ads. The more ads they get you to see, the more they get paid. Their entire capitalistic inc3entive is to make you watch more of their ads. They work very, very, very hard to make this come true. They're really good at it. They suck you in and keep you doom-scrolling as long as they can. They don't care if it's bad for  your health, they want those ad dollars. They want to increase their feed's 'stickiness.' They want your attention and they'll get it any way they can.  And how do they get it? The don't create their own content... they entice you to scroll for content you've 'signed up' for. Content that your friends publish. Content that your favorite authors publish. Content that other famous people publish. That seems rea...