In former times , the Vedas tell us that Jnana or academic studies of varying kinds have always been carried out in every society. The vedas also tell us four classes of persons  exist in broad terms , and those who are inclined to various studies, the Vipras and Brahminical have always been in existence so as to give all important insights and direction to different groups that make up society as a whole. This is how God’s intelligence is channelled into the world. Intelligensia has not evolved as the speculative Darwinians assume. Those multi disciplined studies carried out in societies worldwide were based not only on the physical world but also a metaphysical one .
A strong drive for materialism in all its colours causes suppression of natural metaphysical curiosities, and the consciousness and its workings and real needs becomes overwhelmingly absorbed in atoms , elements compounds in its presented shapes and colours . Consciousness and the metaphysical are left very much on the back burner .
So , in current times, society is in degradation mode , although it might appear its advancing.
Such is the bewildering energy of Divinity.
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