cybercuzco's Journal: The Fall of Civilization

"X will be the end of western civilization" Weve all heard it, and usually promptly dismissed it. How can video games, TV, movies etc be lead to the downfall of civilization? Of course they cant, in and of themselvess. I believe they are a symptom of the decline of civilization, rather than the cause. Civilization is declineing due to the failure to transmit civilization from generation to generation. For whatever reason, parents do not transmit the rudiments of civilized behavior to their children. Society teaches that each individual is unique, and is the most important person in the world, and that anything that is done that discomforts the individual is wrong, and the individual needs to be compensated for that slight. If the trend continues that the individual is more important than the society, people will become less and less willing to make sacrifices for society and disorder and violence against fellow citizens will increase as vendettas and vigilantes take the place of justice. Eventually the government will be unable to contain the violence and society will collapse. I wish i knew a cure for this, but unfortunately those that are the most self centered also tend to have the most children and teach the values of self importance to them, eventually civilized people will be evolved out of the species to the point where war once again becomes common. At this point, the tide turns and the uncivilized kill each other off, allowing civilization to once again be reborn.