Then why now did they get the momentum? Why not the last 75 years? What has changed.. where is the falsifyability and prediction power in that story? There has to be better social science out there beyond "The inevitable victorymarch to a startrek future progressed nicely when suddenly facism returned".. that just sounds like someone who lost the plot completely and is in open denial about a species maybe to disabled to wield any future advances safely, without a period of realistic reflection first.