50 year plan

It's not just the United States and Britain where college graduates can't find jobs.

This is occurring even in the economic powerhouse we're told are taking all of ours.

The reality is that in 50 years the fossil fuels will be pretty much gone. Some of those who would rule us view this as a marvelous opportunity to point the larger part of humanity towards a post-industrial neo-feudalism. Restricting education makes a population so much easier to control, particularly if you need a world war or two to readjust the boundaries for the different groups of hegemon wanna-bees.

Thus the failure to develop renewable energy sources. Thus the global turn away from scientific and social progress. Thus the resurgence of old beliefs and prejudices and a new dark age.