Practically no one is interested in God, one’s relationship with God or how one should act. Modern men have altogether forgotten such questions because they are mad for material possessions. If this kind of civilization continues, the time will soon come when the Supreme Personality of Godhead will take away all the material opulences. Then people will come to their senses.
-Shrimad Bhagvatam Canto 8 Chapter 22 Verse 17 purport

तेषां मैरेयदोषेण विषमीकृतचेतसाम् ।
निम्‍लोचति रवावासीद्वेणूनामिव मर्दनम् ॥ २ ॥
As by the friction of bamboos destruction takes place, so also, at sunset, by the interaction of the faults of intoxication, all their minds became unbalanced, and destruction took place.
-Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Canto 3: The Status Quo CHAPTER 4 Verse 2