More Gibbon

Gibbon, in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, wrote:

“The five marks of the Roman decaying culture:

• Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth;
• Obsession with sex and perversions of sex;
• Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original;
• Widening disparity between very rich and very poor;
• Increased demand to live off the state.” 

Does this sound familiar?