[Willem Fick]

I have a very depressing view on this:

Every civilization in the history of mankind has peaked and shortly thereafter disappeared, often taking their scientific discoveries and knowledge with them. Ours will be the same. Often the peak of a civilization's growth is signaled by barbarians of some form of another taking over, either by force or by assimilation.

I suspect western civilization as we know it has reached that very peak (perhaps somewhere a while back already), and our political correctness, our accommodating and embracing nature is leading to our values being overrun and a gradual moral/economic/ethical decline.