And you don't think the decade of the 80's was the last of history as we knew it? Don't you think things have gone downhill in the 90's...I sure wish for the good old days.
In reality, things have been "going downhill" since the 60's, but then the table was set for the 60's in the 50's, which the table was set for the decline in the 50's way back in the early 20th century with the rise of Darwinism, eugenics, new age concepts such as Theosophy, etc.