In a prosperous society the wealth of which comes from industrial structures, the danger is that thoughts, expressions, and manners of life that favor the continuance of these forms tend to be unconsciously rewarded. And, more critically, having unthinkingly carved out this central path of the shared mind, thoughts, expressions and manners of life that fall outside of the central path tend to be dismissed out of hand. But not from rational thought about them, or even from their identity with things to which rational thought has been given. They are simply aside from the path being unconsciously divined.
