As per the title, the writer should have shown a "causal" link between the TV sitcom, and the perceived downfall of the Western civilization. Proving causality is hard, but I would have been happy even if the author had shown some level of correlation. Unfortunately, none were to be found.

The Western civilization is not same as United States. It presence is from the Western Europe to far reaching islands of New Zealand.

This is also something of a problem with HN, where such shallow articles sometimes get pushed up to the front page just because the author decides to write a challenging, and overreaching title.