{"id":12599,"date":"2020-09-02T06:45:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T13:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12599"},"modified":"2020-09-01T18:48:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T01:48:08","slug":"cultural-suicide-is-painless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/cultural-suicide-is-painless\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Suicide Is Painless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February, New York was the world\u2019s 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\u2019t much worry about others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&nbsp;<em>your<\/em>&nbsp;car is vandalized,&nbsp;<em>your&nbsp;<\/em>wallet is stolen, and<em>&nbsp;your&nbsp;<\/em>spouse is violent, and no one comes, only then do you sense that you earlier were voting for a pre-civilized wilderness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2014to prepare for the next round of arson in 2021 or 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/08\/30\/cultural-suicide-is-painless\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness In February, New York was the world\u2019s 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\u2019t much worry about others. When you loot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3hd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4130,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/what-will-europe-really-do\/","url_meta":{"origin":12599,"position":0},"title":"What Will Europe Really Do?","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 19, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Real Clear Politics Nothing is quite as surreal as the Islamic world\u2019s fury at the liberal and innocuous Danes. 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