061523 Moral breakdown is a fake problem; kindness, honesty, and civility are stable or have perhaps even increased in recent decades:https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/06/moral-breakdown-is-a-fake-problem/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020230615%20(1)
Steven Pinker, “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined” (2011). Violence in the world has declined both in the long and short run across the world, from wars to the treatment of children, from murder, rape and genocide to the spanking of children to the mistreatment of blacks, women, gays and oppressed minorities. Increased literacy and communication promote empathy. Rational problem solving increasingly resolves conflicts.