GREAT AMERICA

Life Among the Ruins

The few sowed the wind, and the many reaped their whirlwind.

By Victor Davis Hanson at American Greatness:

March 5, 2023

American society is facing three existential crises not unlike those that overcame the late Roman, and a millennium later, terminal Byzantine, empires.

Premodern Barbarism

We are suffering an epidemic of premodern barbarism. The signs unfortunately appear everywhere. Over half a million homeless people crowd our big-city downtowns.

Most know the result of such Medieval street living is unhealthy, violent, and lethal for all concerned. Yet no one knows—or even seems to worry about—how to stop it.

So public defecation, urination, fornication, and injection continue unabated. Progressive urban pedestrians pass by holding their noses, averting their gazes, and accelerating the pace of their walking.The greenest generation in history allows its sidewalks to become pre-civilizational sewers. In a very brief time, we all but have…