entropy

  ...Simply put, entropy (disorder) increases as time goes by. This SCIENTIFIC concept comes from the Second LAW of Thermodynamics. So the arrow of time goes from Order to disorder (like Cosmic Plasma from the Big Bang to current man-made elements).
     Entropy can also be seen as a cultural phenomena. Just watch the news. The ancients probably had their own descriptions of it. For example, Hindu's call our time the "Kaliyuga Age", while there is still goodness, it is an age of conflict, decay, destruction and evil, an "evil generation".  They say it started about 3,000 B.C. (I say with the rise of human culture) and will end after about 432,000 years, perhaps bringing our Universe to a fiery end. In "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov the answer to the problem of entropy was "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" indicating that our Universe is cyclic and will be born again. In Jeremy Rifkins' book on entropy he writes about entropy "watersheds" or times when entropy levels off. This could be akin to cultural "Golden Ages" like those of ancient Greece and, I believe, the recent or present United (Unified) States of America.
     Entropy appears to be how the game plays out...