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.