Interesting post Harold. I wonder if the notion of what constitutes "new" in terms of mindsets and behaviours is bounded by a personal metric? You make an excellent points about how we have seen behaviour modes adjusted in the past few hundred years, a point I have sympathy with. But as a historian by training it leads me to think that the past hundred years are a mere blip, blink or aberration. Hence the way I often talk about the advent of the social economy as actually being a return to a more enduring evolutionary state - we being the inherently social apes. Of course it does require we re learn that but I wonder if there is an argument that adopting and embedding a behaviour that may have a more deeply embedded legacy in us is perhaps easier than forcing us to work in the satanic mill model? Oh dear I feel a "freewill" debate coming on! :o)