Exactly. Human society throughout the ages always seems to go through societal high and low points, with your occasional societal collapse (for example , the dark ages.) Had it not been for Arabs building a library in Spain, the renaissance likely would've come much later. When we face our next societal collapse, we should hope someone builds another library of sorts, or we may be going the way of the Indus river civilization.

Degeneracy.

In the not too distant future,

If it makes you feel better, this is the tame version. There's another version that goes on for like twice as long because it starts talking about male vaporeon too.