Before the enlightenment, there was a sense of one history of man, but it was always couched in religious terms and with a very specific predetermined outcome in mind. If I'm remembering it right, the Calvinists were perhaps the first to step away from the religious sense of history and move it towards secularization when they decided the pope was the antichrist yet the apocalypse doesn't seem to be happening, so maybe God has just kicked the can down the road indefinitely.
Anyways, yes, people are going to fall completely to pieces in the future.
Before the enlightenment, there was a sense of one history of man, but it was always couched in religious terms and with a very specific predetermined outcome in mind. If I'm remembering it right, the Calvinists were perhaps the first to step away from the religious sense of history and move it towards secularization when they decided the pope was the antichrist yet the apocalypse doesn't seem to be happening, so maybe God has just kicked the can down the road indefinitely.
Anyways, yes, people are going to fall completely to pieces in the future.