Well, markets also seem relativistic between buyers but between sellers they provide an absolute framework of competition. Similarly, they are decentralized with respect to the government, but centralized with respect to the power afforded within business entities. They are transgovernmental . . . but modern governments are also pose explicit threats to traditional values — transnational markets allow another check on the growing power of government. Finally, I am not sure that we have seen a popular undermining of traditional beliefs . . . we have seen a shift in governmental attitudes toward traditional beliefs . . eg. the abandonment of state churches . . . that has revealed the variances always present in popular belief.