The Social Decline of Society

Taryag VeSheva > Hashkafah > The Social Decline of Society

The Social Decline of Society

It should be completely apparent that the world we live in has severely deteriorated, and to an extent, we may no longer even notice them because we are so used to it that we don’t seem to think or do anything about it. When did it start, and where does it end? Are we willingly impeding our own doom? The empires of this world have already collapsed and with them have collapsed the fundamental structures that held us together.

The “moral relativism” in the 20th century led to the withering decline in objective morality. The social decline of the human race didn’t begin in the 1960’s – though many “revolutionary” ideas were propagated then. The originating concepts rather pre-date the counter-cultural revolutions in the 1960’s going back even further. The early effects of false “enlightenment” have led to a slippery slope that has caused the world to become even more corroded from it’s very livelihood in the most disgraceful manners possible. 

The degeneration of ethics can be traced even prior to the establishment of the world’s infamous governments such as the The Third German Reich (Nazi Germany) and the United Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) which plunged the world into turmoil. And moral changes caused such atrocious dictatorships to be conceived into existence wouldn’t have happened had it not been for the moral deterioration of society at large from the smallest to highest level of humanity. Mankind has become greatly influenced by the ideas of corrupt people with no distinct understanding of right from wrong. Nazis benefited from the lack of moral awareness. Even Hitler, himself, said that “conscience is a Jewish invention”.


Of course, anyone from previous generations would be capable of noticing the global decline, but many people in the latest generation do not seem to even be aware of it. Could it be that they are so desensitized to the degeneration of our culture that they wouldn’t even be aware of this digression? Are people in this day and age so desensitized to this literal, on-going corrosion of ethics that we are no longer aware of it?

[Shifts in Consciousness

There isn’t any specific, secular reason for humanity to only lean in one social direction. A nation of people can have stable relations with the world around them, and  overnight, they can be suddenly betrayed. If this can happen in human politics, then this can also happen on a social level. What is socially acceptable in mainstream culture has changed over the years.

A country can start off beautiful but quickly become [polluted]. A nation can be birthed by a strong understanding of what is right and then fall into darkness, and much like a nation that quickly succumbs to evil, a nation can start off having peaceful relationships with the Jewish people, and in the course of one generation, the entire relationship can disintegrate. 


Proper ethics are necessary in all levels of society. From the lowest [level] to the top of the pyramid, ethics are important for creating a stable [society]. If neither the top or bottom are decent, then you can’t expect [society] to be good. If we don’t fight corruption on a local level, then we can’t find it on a grand level.

The biggest problem today isn’t the mere existence of evil itself but the desensitization of evil. As man is gradually exposed to [immoral things], man becomes less repulsed by [x]. It begins to settle and normalize in the mind. The idea that human life has no value is an example of how an immoral concept can be easily normalized [into] society. The most noble men have the capability of becoming [savages]. Germany is an example of a country where [well-behaved] people 

The Modern world no longer perceives things with a real notion of value. And if it does value something, it has no genuine way of authenticating the idea that one [noun] is more valuable than another because they have removed [sacredness] from it. Even if a person in purely secular-liberal life was to claim that something is valuable, they’d have no way of showing how one object is more or less valuable than something else. In a society, without an objective idea of what is valuable, everything is perceived equally in value, and thus, everything can be seen as equally invaluable. 

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *