IS OUR CULTURE DECAYING?

Some days it is hard not to ask, 
"Is our culture decaying?"

“The five marks of the Roman decaying culture:

Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth;

Obsession with sex and perversions of sex;

Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original;

Widening disparity between very rich and very poor;

Increased demand to live off the state."
 - Edward Gibbon


 “Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.” 
   - Alfred Joseph Toynbee


 “Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named...but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. 

Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.” 
   - Robert Heinlein


 “A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage.
   - Aleksander Solshenitsyn


“Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now."
   - Alfred Joseph Toynbee



"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.”
  -Thucydides


"We killed Martin Luther King and now make an icon of  Kanye West.  Something is dreadfully wrong with this country."
   - Lady Lovelace

WHAT DO YOU THINK?