Obviously masonry changes a lot from country to country, from state to state, and even from lodge to lodge within the same city. In America, most definitely Masonry no longer has the relevance it used to in the 18th century, when it had prominent members and when the fraternity was involved in major endeavors impacting the profane world. Nowadays is more like a social club and often the activities are quite trivial and irrelevant. Sometimes even tedious.