Western Civilization would never have reached greatness if instead of emerging as an alcohol based peoples, it had emerged as a Cannabis based people.
It is interesting that in our decline, that alcohol and its social life and human interaction are ending because of new driving laws ending the inns and taverns, the cocktail parties, the long masculine and effective business lunch, the after work bonding parties, and the sexes mixing and dancing, while Cannabis is taking over as we zone out on a couch.
“Social life and human interaction are ending because of new driving laws ending the inns and taverns, the cocktail parties, the long masculine and effective business lunch, the after work bonding parties, and the sexes mixing and dancing.”
Add even bowling alleys, etc. to this.
(((But Cannabis did NOT do that)))
Yes, our typical faddy and trendy way of over exaggerating and taking everything to an extreme (drunk driving, we may as well lynch people), that did play a role. Women getting the right to vote, later coming into the work force also played a HUGE role. Without women voting, sexist this may sound, the temperance movement would have never gotten a religious and even political foothold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_United_States_Prohibition_movement
Today, what has killed human interaction more than anything else: The Internet, social media, and smart phones.
—You can watch kids standing next to each other and texting instead of speaking.
—Almost 40% of all people that get married meet online and the workplace is the number one location people meet, which don't leave much room for anything else.
This may explain the drop in the fertility rate.
Amotivational syndrome.