Great post Neil... and this IS happening as a sublimnal and very gradual process... Enter the brave new world of technology that we are in.
All these 'experiments' are happening now, especially in New Zealand and here in Australia,
The small populations, or microcultures, that exist here are the perfect petri dish, adding the fact that most of the population will just go with the flow without putting up too much of a fuss.
Maybe one day the world will wake upo to the beheamouth that's getting ready to smack it on the back of the head and do something about it... but I doubt it will happen any time soon... more like too late.
There's always a way to fix all this... and numb the people into submission... Let's start a war on terror, lets raise petrol prices, let's bribe corrupt governments to buy our wheat, lets assasinate a dictator... they won't even see us smacking them on the back of the head while we're squeezing their balls and blocking their eyes.