Moral Weakness

Moral weakness is not the cause of a civilization's collapse: it is the manifestation of it, just as the a building's implosion is not the cause of the fall of the structure, but is a time-line of after-effects.
Our talk about lack of morality is not talk about the cause of collapse of society, but is like a slow motion film documentary of the moments of implosion and not a depiction of the causes of the building's destruction.

A thirst for the sensational and the debased, from Pornography to an unhealthy pre-occupation with the Casey Anthony trial, are signs of a spreading disease, but they themselves are not the causes of the disease.