We came to this point in large part because of the incredible success of Western Civilization. Western Civilization was so peaceful and productive, with such low crime rates, that atheist socialists presumed that it was the natural state of man, and not a product of Western Civilization and Christianity. They have been living off of the moral surplus produced by 400 years of advanced Western Civilization for the last 100 years.
and fairly successfully tapped that surplus to broke.