We are definitely in the Age of Decadence, it's just a question of how long until the collapse. "Without an overarching guiding ideal or moral core, there exists widespread disorientation, confusion, and moral decay. **The masses live empty and meaningless lives from which they seek relief by drowning themselves in base pleasures, developing addictions, and by adopting escapism as a way of life.**" "People grow increasingly incapable of distinguishing between true and false, good and bad, right and wrong, and so they often choose what is life-denying and harmful. **Beauty and genius are renounced in favor of banality, ugliness, and vulgarity.** Virtues are seen as vices, and vices virtues. **The process of individuation and pursuit of greatness is abandoned in favor of an apathetic conformity. And as a result, mental illness becomes the norm.**"