Well, as I suspected, you reach the unhinged extremes of discussion pretty easily, David Lanfranchi.  My point was quite clear - that even in non-traditional seating arrangements in some churches and chapels, the focus of all of those present are on the altar and the divine sacrifice on the Eucharist.  With the old arrangement of everyone looking east meant that no one but the celebrant could see what was happening, were excluded from a full participation in the Eucharistic action, and had no place in the prayers except for "amen."  And to make a statement of how the Council fathers had a hidden agenda to make the Mass a Protestant service is downright insulting and even heretical.  Best to pull back a bit, David.  What you are advocating for here is long-gone, and the last vestiges of it will die with you and those who think he same.  The Church lurches on......