We certainly have a lot of force fed ideology from our supreme emperors and I genuinely believe as humans we can create and come up with some really great stuff, well at least just compare the patents per country to start.
Having said this, all the rest of the hyperbole is who gets to control. We see the new E-Barons via fiat wanting to take over from the old oil barons. Ideology is first and foremost sold as if the science is settled but, when they add millions of years to any explanation, to me, with no witnesses present, then it is just as much a faith walk as anything else. A real Random Control Trial with a very large sample size is the only proof that an experiment is truthful and reproducible. All the rest are just correlations. Take a jump if you want but give me liberty to choose otherwise or let the market decide. Seems most times the one who controls the mass, by being the best ideology salesman wins the day for his political ideology, never mind given the ability to go deep into other peoples pockets.