backwards...obviously

Earth is definitely becoming a smaller place day by day, due to advancement in IT technology and the means of travel.By the same pace,philosophically speaking, man and civilization should have grown in an inversly proportional manner, but that has not happened.Rather, the movement of man and civilization has been parallel to the 'shrinking' of earth.Religions are becoming more rigid and 'close' groups rather than being open and welcoming different ideas.Our own great civilization,which was always open and had always encouraged emergence of new ideologies, is also becoming less tolerant, and people at the helm of affairs seem to 'prescribe' particluar way of thinking rather than stimutlating independent spurts of ideas.We may be making lot of progress in material life, but are certainly deteriorating otherwise.