Likewise, I see that it is more a question of will and whose mind you are a child of, how things will change in the economy.
Nothing that is reformed or pushed from above can really reach the individual. The ideal always wants to be found first in myself, before I question and change my attitude and my perception of life.
So a "yes" to what you say about cultural change. It's all quite an intimate affair, isn't it? Because to develop culturally means to develop personally at the same time.
I'll see if I can read the article you suggested in a different way than I did last month :)