Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Edward Gibbon Nails It 220 Years Early

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 (1737-1794), Author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

2 comments:

Mostly Nothing said...

My Dad saw the same thing back in the 70s. He was disgusted with society back then. Imagine now.

K T Cat said...

Your dad was prescient. I would bet that it takes two generations to fully transform a society. That would place us having fully integrated the social mores popular in ... 1970.