The evolution of Western consciousness and culture has been accelerating exponentially since the Renaissance, through the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution. Every few generations, the world is turned upside down. The current incarnation of our institutions and structures was recast during the Second World War. In the 60s and 70s we had the cultural revolution of feminism, sexual liberation, the end of Empire, anti-racism and gay rights, which reshaped our culture to a new norm. For decades, our institutions and our cultural values have appeared relatively static on the surface but underneath, the tectonic plates have been shifting. The old structures are still in place and are fighting ever harder to cling on. Most of us know that they are not really working as well as they should and are neither adapted to our present nor fit for the future. The way we do most things is going to have to change.