&gt;meaning the progress of civilization<p>if you look around the world, the couple decades of globalization, of opening of the world, of falling various curtains down have caused conservative reaction in many places that took forms as rise of nationalistic, religious and other extremisms. People are scared of changes, it makes them feel like they are under attack, and as result they instinctively form the &quot;Croods kill circle&quot;. Just look at all the human history - the progress has always been a painful process of fighting through that reaction. People were burned at stake.