Is there an objective measure of decadence?

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Short Answer:

The only way to mesure decadence is fail. However a non-decadent society, so the two parameters are not entirely linked.

Long Answer:

No, because a decadent society is not well defined: it consists in two things:

A society getting less focused on the initial values that it followed earlier
A society that gets more and more problem (eg: corruption, etc...)

So a decadent society is a variety of criteria, and those criteria are not objective: having numerous feasts is usually considered as a sign of decadence for Roma. But is it really "bad" to have feast? Does feasts destroy societies?

Most of the time in history, a society is said to be "decadent" by historians that know that this society later failed and was destroyed or suppressed (war, pandemic, revolution...). But this is not a scientific approach of the phenomenon.

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