I think it is interesting that while cities were universally converted by the sons of Mosiah. I think that speaks to a culture of community that is largely absent in our modern day. I think such a culture has both advantages and disadvantages spiritually—it would fortify righteousness but it could also stratify existing ideas to the exclusion of growth.
Thus we can plainly discern, that after a people have been once enlightened by the Spirit of God, and have had great knowledge of things pertaining to righteousness, and then have fallen away into sin and transgression, they become more hardened, and thus their state becomes worse than though they had never known these things.
Alma 24:30
I am beginning to think that the world, especially the western anglo-centric world, has been once enlightened and have had great knowledge of things pertaining to righteousness and thus as more and more are falling away we will almost inevitably see among us depravity that would have been unimaginable among us prior to the Restoration.
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