Keep in mind Rome co-opted gnostic Christianity to become the Catholic Church 1700 years ago.

Those grass roots efforts have to be expressions of the soul, long before thinking they can change a calcified world. That world has to break down on its own, then the grass can grow up through the cracks.

There is no honor among thieves.

Then some other cult will start to coalesce as the next culture.

Life and death. Be life. Even if the end is death.