I'm sure your book will be a valuable read, regarding the assessment parameters and tools of the current "state of the world", to begin with. In societies where it seems that the general knowledge individual levels (history, literature, sciences,...) is lowering year after year, and even the very natural conditions for preserving "intelligent" life on the planet are put in jeopardy (according to many "collapse hypothesis" surveys), it may appear daredevil to pretend there exists some kind of "cultural progress" :-)