Shekinah glory

So mainly, I've been trying to catch up on sleep for the latter part of the week, but one of the things I've been pondering about is interpretation of holy writings. Now, anyone who could possibly believe that the exact meaning and interpretation has remained static for the past 4000 years or so, must be, in my opinion, nutso. Culture, worldview, philosophy, law and history all play roles in the lens through which we understand scripture. Likely, in several generations, they too, will understand things differently, and that's OK.
What bothers me most, however, is how, for some, we keep it removed from ourselves, that we try to bring meaning that is far from our reality (boy, incest is bad! Genociding a nation is bad news!), such that it doesn't touch our own fundamental assumptions of our own reality. What I mean to say is, in our culture, certainly we acknowledge that ALL the sexual sins are wrong, that 'big, bad' things such as killing large sums of people, or cheating out your family are wrong, which are things that we already understand at an intuitive level, but to go deeper, to the things that will actually FORCE us to change our lifestyle and living, those we seem to keep at bay. Things such as greed and avarice, the prostitution of ourselves, not to sex trade workers, but to our careers, to our own futures, to our financial security, and the actions that we partake in that encourage and perpetuate slavery, those we don't talk about, those we don't change. Without question, I participate in the same things; in some senses, I am even MORE guilty, as I KNOW that I know better, and should do better. For some, I do know that (deliberate) ignorance plays a role.
It's almost like we try to keep things at status quo, affecting piety and repentance, but not fundamentally challenging the assumptions that colour how we have lived our lives. We argue that we are trying not to be 'of the world', but we do that through our affectations, rather than of fundamental shifts into how Kingdom living could look like...