A group of men, all wearing masks, used bats and wooden planks to pound at windows at Zumiez, a skateboarding apparel store at Broadway near E. 13th St. in the East Village. (Kerry Burke/New York Daily News)
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness: Cultural Suicide Is Painless
The story of all Dark Ages is that when civilizations finally prefer suicide, they do it easily, and the remnants flock to the countryside to preserve what they can—allowing the cities go on with their ritual self-destruction.
In February, New York was the world’s most dynamic metropolis. By August, the city was more like the ruins of Ephesus. It is not all that hard to blow up a culture. You can do it in a summer if you haven’t much worry about others.
When you loot and burn a Target in an hour, it takes months to realize there are no more neighborhood Target-stocked groceries, toilet paper, and Advil to buy this winter.
You can in a night assault the police, spit at them, hope to infect them with the coronavirus, and even burn them alive. But when you call 911 in a few weeks after your car is vandalized, your wallet is stolen, and your spouse is violent, and no one comes, only then do you sense that you earlier were voting for a pre-civilized wilderness.
You can burn down a Burger King in half an hour. But it will take years to find anyone at Burger King, Inc., who would ever be dumb enough to rebuild atop the charred ruins—to prepare for the next round of arson in 2021 or 2023.
Today’s looter carrying off sneakers and smartphones in 10 years will be tomorrow’s urban activist, understandably but in vain demanding stores return to a charred no man’s land, to do their fair share, and to help restore the downtown, neighborhood, inner-city, or the “community.”
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WNU Editor: My friends who live and/or work in New York City are horrified with what has happened in the past 6 months. It is now unrecognizable to what New York City was 6 months ago, and there is a growing acceptance that times are going to get worse. As for the other cities whose stores and commercial centers have been destroyed by BLM and Antifa rioters, you just know that they are not going to recover in the coming years. For those who want to know about Ephesus (I did not know when I read the title), a good description of the city's history is here .... Ephesus (Wikipedia).
The barbarians were elected.
ReplyDeleteNow I can afford to live there.
Some semi-local talk show hosts were talking about the Watts riot and other riots. They said studies have shown it takes 15 years grocery or other stores to return.I was thinking 15 to 30.
ReplyDeleteMichelle Obam aand Barry Soetero have or had the moral authority to tap down on the number or length of riots. They could have led a series of legitimate protest marches during daylight. But that would have been work. It might have cut into their lucrative speaking engagements, film production or book deals. After all a girl has earn a lot of filthy lucre in order to eat and Michelle needs to eat a lot.Leading a protest march is hard work and they would have to leave one of their 2 seaside mansions. The mansion that might get swallowed by the seas at any moment due to global warming.
Maybe if other protest march organizers paid them recompense on equivalent to that 'earned' for a speaking engagement, they might deign to lead march or two.
Barry Soetero is so sad that he was not at Selma and here he is passing up his opportunity for his Selma moment.
Downtown Raleigh struggles to recover from riots, looting; insurance claims hit at least $10 million statewide
ReplyDeleteWest Side Neighborhoods That Never Recovered From ’68 Riots Torn Apart By Looting, Fires: History Is ‘Repeating Itself’
There is another side of this story; that this activity is actually a lost cause and we will survive. I do not believe our society is going to crash (too many reasons to list here), but we will learn from this and take necessary action ; like this year’s vote which I believe will be a very large win for the GOP Trumpers (MAGA).
ReplyDeleteIf you look at history and the religious insurrections over time, they only last a few years (some decades). Our online tech will allow these insurrections to last longer but they will fade away because they are all self defeating paradigms. However, please proceed with caution and stay safe.
Mike,
DeleteI think you're right. Only quibble I have is no one really knows what a crash is, we could have one and not know it, we could think we have one and it didn't happen, meanwhile we keep living.
Patrisse Cullors is the Lena Dunham of BLM. The online tech is giving as much of an eyeful of Cullors as Dunham. I do not think there is enough eye bleach in the world!
ReplyDeleteBoth insist in showing off the their apple shaped bodies and their farcical ideals.
What are the odds of a Lena Dunham, Patrisse Cullors marriage?
Portland is starting to look a lit like New York
ReplyDeletehttps://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=250887
As you can see from the above link that a Soros living DA has put 2 more notches on his belt.
He is stacking up the bodies of the innocent like cord wood.
Stabbed to death in broad daylight in Ted Wheeler's Portland.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.koin.com/news/crime/2-die-after-being-stabbed-in-northeast-portland/
Ted Wheeler's Portland is just like de Blasio's NYC where women are raped at high noon in broad daylight with cameras rolling.
the big Apple is called that for a reason. London and other cities have had plagues over the years going way back in time and yes. they are still there. Get over it.
ReplyDeleteWhat city was going to take over from London at the time of the Great Fire?
ReplyDeleteThe internet connections that NY have can be had ay a 100 other American cities for use in banking or trading
What truly fucks NYC is not COVID or the lockdown but the riots. They are a prolonged period of uncertainty, destruction and fear caused by the riots.Detroit Chicago and NYc are in the running for worst American city and most hollowed out. Chicago and Detroit will probably beat NYC, but that is not saying much.
Trust Democrats must Escape for NYC or Escape LA to look real.