The sad part is it probably does actually do important work as well.
Going to be difficult to do while significant swaths of higher society remain married to an ancient philosophy which falls entirely flat under the scrutiny of modern knowledge, and with the context of modern technology. While they have imagined themselves as masters of this world, the harsh truth is that they have simply been too ineffectual to actually reach the end of their logic structures until now.
No, I imagine you were talking about something different. I'm simply asserting what I've observed related to the issue. With new discovery we are required to take a sober look back at everything which we used to believe, to understand what needs to be done in order to actually survive and advance in a changing world. With the wealth of new discoveries which have been made recently, there is an increasing friction between what people know to be true, and established power structures operating on outdated principles.