Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of place. This is a very suggestive approach. It implies two conditions: a set of ordered relations and a contrevention of that order. Dirt then, is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is a system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter, in so far as ordering involves rejecting inappropriate elements.