Evolution and Devolution

How is the advancement of a civilization measured? Has western culture advanced in the evolutionary sense?
Has Western society advanced in the production of architecture? Is there anything built that can compare to both the beauty and magnificence of ancient structures.
How about the arts? Can we create music as in the Classical era? Has anyone learned of the power of Greek theatre?
How about philosophy. Has anyone read Plato or Aristotle lately?
Now what about the ability of a culture to transmit stable cultural forms from one generation to the next?
Can we measure in terms of how man treats the earth and lives harmoniously with the forces of nature?
What does harmony, peace on earth, lack of warfare have to do with the question?
What about diversity of cultural forms?
How about a coherent religious system that remains consistent and coherent through the generations.
Does modern man live a more spiritually aware existence?
What is there besides material proliferation that modern society prevails in?
The truth is that we live in one of the most degenerate and spiritually unenlightened cultures that has ever existed in the history of mankind. There exists nothing in our culture but crude and cheap replications of what at some time in history existed essentially and substantially more refined and more calculated to resolve the true needs of mankind.
The US government and its respective society is one of the most short lived political system that has ever shown up. Presently All society is in a rapid state of disintegration. Like the Roman system, so the American has rewritten a contrived history of mankind. The aim is to exaggerate the glory of present society at the expense of truth and accurate interpretation of meaning. We no longer have hardly any idea of what has existed and its spiritual significance. Now if we can get off of our epoch ego trip, get real honest, maybe even humble, we might see what has been, what can be, and begin again advancement to a truly enlightened civilization!