Like religious fundamentalists, devout rationalists have generally also had little ear for alternative forms of knowledge. The 'imperialism of science' has thereby constituted a threat to circles like indigenous peoples and religious traditionalists who have found their security of knowledge in nonrationalist thinking. True, globalization has, as seen in chapter 8, created some additional room for different epistemologies to develop. However, transplanetary connectivity has at the same time given rationalists extra tools with which to marginalize and silence rival modes of understanding. For example, cyberspace, transworld publications and global conferences have served rationalist academics far more than holy persons and other nonrationalist teachers. Secularism has dominated in global foundations and think tanks. Technocracy has dominated in global governance. Instrumentalism has dominated in global business. These circumstances of the globalizing world have made it harder for nonrational knowledges to survive.