Here are the top 10 cultural developments over the past generation or so which have left our society vulnerable to eventual collapse, especially in the age of AI:
-The definition of loyalty shifted from what someone has done for you in the past, to what they might be likely to do for you in the future
-Lying went from being unforgivable and resulting in public shame, to being acceptable and, often, fully expected/accepted
-Liberty & Freedom went from being at the core of our nation’s mission statement, to being seen as often a bothersome negative that should be curtailed (COVID Panic)
-We went from a society dominated by male values, to one dominated by female values
-Parents went from automatically supporting educators in conflicts with students, to usually doing the opposite, causing teachers/coaches to have no real power/control
-We exchanged the important goal of racial and gender equality of opportunity, for the ill-advised pursuit of equity of outcome
-Our media, which used to be a mostly unifying cultural influence, fragmented into a thousand pieces, thus dividing us along political and demographic lines, while allowing everyone to choose their own “truth”
-We somehow managed to fundamentally mess up the dating/mating/marriage process, creating a situation where it is now almost a miracle for a family to be created and maintained with multiple children, and two married adults of different genders
-In a remarkably short amount of time, we flipped our value of aging upside down, going from a society where your “prime” years were after 60 and where experience was highly valued, to one where the prime of life seems to be from 5-25 and where inexperience/immaturity seems to now be a virtue
-The American Dream went from building a family, home, business/career, to finding yourself in a situation where you are viably able to sue a very rich entity for millions of dollars, ideally without having suffered much real/permanent damage
It is very doubtful that any society in human history has ever experienced so much radical cultural change in such a short amount of time, or could ever survive such developments still intact if they had.