How the decline of moral values promote the failure of civilizations

Great civilizations are not timeless. During their lifespan, they produce great innovations, stunning technological advancements, and archive vast caches of knowledge, but inevitably – they will collapse and die. The reasons for civilizational decline are varied and hotly debated. Dozens of theories abound. In general though, there are but a small number of common requirements for a civilization to thrive and only a handful of reasons why they inevitably collapse.

How the decline of moral values promote the failure of civilizations