America's going backward?

Ed Driscoll fears that we may be doing just that:

In 2010, British academic Bruce Charlton posited, “I suspect that human capability reached its peak or plateau around 1965-75 – at the time of the Apollo moon landings – and has been declining ever since:”

Yes, it is kinda like the thinking I observed on the Whitey on the Moon post. Our culture has degraded to the point where success is a thing to be despised.  Not all of our culture, though.

Bill Whittle observes all this too, but leaves with a vow to not let it continue.