Anthropology studies different cultures; mainly primitive, but it doesn't think its own culture is primitive, unfortunately. There is no field that you can study today that isn't trapped in the culture in some way. It's hard to escape your culture.
Our universities today are better equipped than ever, and the wars keep getting worse.
Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society.
I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.
Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.
The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today but it is not up to me, it depends on what others do to help bring it about.