A great civilization can have about 200 years before it starts to crap out, and we had a good run. If you’re realistic and understand it isn’t going to last forever, you can give it a whirl and you have a chance to make something amazing. The materials are still here— we just need our minds, and some focus. Oh, and that wall.
Such cavalier trends tend to be straightened out once in a while. Idolatrous empires were built, somewhat, over long periods of time punctuated by repeated depositions that happened within days, each, and eventually, final depositions. It appears that cheerleaders for such empires have been unopposed at setting themselves up as imposters of moral authority since about 722 BCE. Ethnic vestiges continue to exaggerate vainglories of those fluctuating empires in ongoing revisions.
See the changes coming in our countries of northwestern culture, momentarily usurped again—changes to possibly spread throughout the world. Many folks, currently influential at various levels, are very afraid of those possible changes ahead. It shows in hysterical, licentious outbursts in contemporary political speech and entertainment. In sum, they’re shrieking about the end of the world (”as seen on TV”), when they only feel the end of their kind of world (see bouncy empires) coming and vainly lack the ability to analyze the situation honestly.