There is also an uncomfortable truth: the global financial system has incentives not to look too closely. Real estate markets benefit from inflows of capital. Banks profit from transaction volume.

It is in the next stage, however, that the most consequential transition occurs. The scope broadens further to include religion, culture, and civilizational identity—not as theological subjects, but as explanatory frameworks for conflict and power

it remains alive not because its language changes, but because the human problems it addresses do not disappear.