“”to trace the progress of our moral decline, to watch, first, the sinking of the foundations of morality as the old teaching was allowed to lapse, then the rapidly increasing disintegration, then the final collapse of the whole edifice, and the dark dawning of our modern day when we can neither endure our vices nor face the remedies needed to cure them.””
Describes us to a T.
Rudyard Kipling captured this human condition perfectly in his poem, “The Gods of the Copybook Headings”.
https://www.poetry.com/poem/33442/the-gods-of-the-copybook-headings
Great Post!