>>13443
The industrial revolution combined with >>13446 is what happened. It's a product of relative peace and unprecedented abundance of resources, and the accompanying removal of Darwinian filters. Relative peace and abundance of resources leads to matriarchy. Relative scarcity and threats to survival lead to patriarchy.

As for its sustainability, there are physical limits to production and technological advancement. Even barring some shit like a solar flare EMP or Yellowstone going off, a wall will be hit. To me it seems powerful people want us all racing toward a mass conflict over increasingly scarce resources and an implosion of the world population which doesn't need to be artificially pumped up and accommodated to begin with, focusing on pumping up the 3rd world in particular, with what I suspect is the intention to use these Peoples as a demographic weapon against what is left of the Western world.

And Christianity did certainly turn out to be part of the problem. It laid the groundwork for a lot of what we see now. The difference now is people worship secular Forms of various tenets of Christianity (notions like equality, the last will be first and the first last, etc). I see Christian Conservatives whining about ess jay dubble yoos all the time. It never occurs to them that many of those beliefs are effectively Christian, minus the deity, and came down to them by osmosis.