The process of our moral decline began with the sinking of the foundations of morality and proceeded to the final collapse of the whole edifice, which brought us finally to the dark dawning of our modern day, in which we can neither bear our immoralities nor face the remedies needed to cure them.
A paraphrase of Livy (the Roman historian; not our Livvie).
This post was edited by Danilo_G at November 23, 2023 7:18 PM MST
I think there are two ways of looking at it: either we have been in moral decline for thousands of years, or it's just natural for people to feel that way, even though we're not necessarily less civilized than the average person in ancient Rome.
I think we have become less civilized in just the last 50 years and even more so since Covid. I find rudeness abounds in areas where I didn't see it before. There was a time when driving on the roads wasn't a blood sport. Sure, folks have always done crazy things when riving, but these days, you can wind up getting killed for a minor driving faux pas.
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