Toynbee had called it; “Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.” Him, the floozies, the drunks stumbling around or fooling with their cell phones; they were all decadent as fuck. So much for the glory of consumerism, universal suffrage, sexual liberation, and U.S. hegemony. Americans had learned how to make false gods out of just about anything. And it was killing them. If the U.S. of A. didn’t wind up as the Whore of Babylon, it wouldn’t be for lack of trying.
