The degradation of the modern American culture, including its 2008
financial and economic crisis, and the modern rejuvenation of Asian
cultures are best understood within the context of 4,000 years of
human history. Such are the consequences of the dynamics of
cultural change, responding to societal variables of wealth,
energy, and human values. This work provides a unique and
formidable science-based framework for civilization development
that complements and enhances the work of preeminent historians and
sociologists. Accordingly, the foundation for societal progress is
placed on restrictive scientific definitions, principles, and
concepts of energy and wealth consumption, rather than solely on
behavioral perspectives derived from empirical data and historical
events. Society's dynamic forces are linked to the cultural
deterioration and collapse of Ancient Greece and Rome, Imperial
Spain, and Great Britain. Specific chapters are devoted to
stagnation of Western civilization, Asian and Islamic resurgence,
deterioration of the American culture, and ecological degradation
of North America's largest estuary, the Chesapeake Bay; collateral
damage of socio-economic profitability. The characteristics of
America's current cultural deterioration parallel those of previous
great civilizations. These include abuse of wealth and energy
resources; excessive individual and national debt; lack of cultural
civility, discipline, integrity, and ethics; unaffordable
militarism, escalating income and wealth disparities; unresolved
crises in health care and public education; and stultifying
cultural complexity and bureaucracy. Themes include the underlying
principles responsible for the eventual deterioration of all known
civilizations; the basis for the recurring, sequential periodicity
of civilization success and failure; and the roles and significance
of militarism and religion in civilization growth, decay, and
rebirth; Addressing these themes necessitates the integration of
the academic disciplines of history, sociology, economics, and
science, reflecting human nature and socioeconomic and political
realities that fundamentally and continuously alter human values,
priorities, and behavior, thus creating human history.
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