Modernity: The Ideology Factory

Sometime in the 15th Century and early 16th Century, people in the West, especially Florence, Italy, then England figured out that Christianity was a hoax, and the church was a fraud. The specific insight was that religion could be a tool--indeed that it was only ever a tool. This is a very specific takeaway from the revelation that you've lived in a world of lies. Rather than liberate their fellows, they set out to con them more effectively than Rome had for 1000 years.

Modernity = fully conscious fabrication of religions and ideologies by con men: political con men and religious con men. Modernity is riot with ideologies and religions. The founding fathers of the United States, Marx, Joseph Smith all took the same approach. They believed a carefully crafted lie was necessary to guide those of lower consciousness (the conned) toward some arbitrary goal.

By creating a thousand different houses of lies with merely cosmetic differences, and by relying on the same old tired tactics of propaganda and education system control modernity has worn itself out. It's too easy to see.