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I've read enough history. You should probably peruse Bill Bennett's Report on Leading Cultural Indicators. As for history, it's so amusing to hear people say that things are always the same (apparently regardless of the legalization of baby-slaughter, pornography and the increase in gambling institutions) history is chock full of examples of empires that rose and fell and nobody seemed to recognize when it was falling or why. Wake up.

You're preaching to the choir, man. Our civilization has been on the decline since the 1930s at least--concurrent with the rise of communism and the subsequent infiltration of that pernicious ideology into every single Western institution. However, history moves in cycles, not in a straight line. According to my view the pendulum toward decline started to lose momentum in the 1980s and continues to do so. We have many more battles to fight before it begins to swing the other way in earnest.

But it will happen. Catholics are people of hope, ultimately. Therefore, I refuse to be cast down and pessimistic because of various negative forces that seem to rule society at the present moment. As some of our evangelical friends have said, "I've read the book, I know how it turns out." All we can do is continue to fight the good fight until He returns.