Hello and welcome to the Victor Davis Hansen show. This is the culturalist, the show in which we look at all the events and people from the past and even present that influence the way we live.

And Victor has been on a long book tour recently and so pretty exhausted from interviews, but mostly on the book, although it involves lots of current events.

But what I thought we would do today for the show is look at some current events first and then maybe a historical character and then a quote from the past and have Victor talk to us a little bit about something else besides the current news.

But we'll do the news first after this message.

Welcome back and this is the Victor Davis Hansen show. Victor is the Martin and Nile Anderson senior fellow and military history and classics at the Hoover institution and the Wayne and Marsha busking distinguished fellow in history at Hillsdale College.

Welcome Victor. How are you doing today?

Very well. I'm here with Sammy Wink interviewing me and we're ready to go.

Sammy Wink always forgets to say her own name, but yes, it's true. This is Sammy Wink and we're here to talk a little bit about news today. And then I thought maybe a historical figure.

I have some questions about William to come to Sherman. So we'll get to him. And then a quote from the audacity that I find I've always found absolutely fascinating and I would like to hear you talk on that.

But if we could get to the news, there's so much news out there. I'm willing to let you address anything you would like actually but I these are some of the things that I've noticed the parents angry in Virginia at the rape of a young female student in the female bathroom by a transgender female in that bathroom.

And then let's go crime scene as people in broad daylight are still taking hundreds of thousands of dollars of goods from storekeepers and if the San Francisco's are going to put up with that much longer.

I find Lori Lightfoot fascinating character as mayor as she tries to threaten the police, the very institution that might keep somebody safe, although not very many people it seems like in Chicago.

And also the marksman in Norway that took out five killed five people with a bone arrows and another fascinating event and then finally there's things about California besides San Francisco that are pressing I think I just recently went past the patchaco pass and the San Luis reservoir.

And it looks like a mud puddle and I have to say I'm really shocked I've lived in California and I've driven that 152 many, many, many times and that reservoir has never, ever been that low.

So if we could talk on water maybe toward the end that'd be great and we also have the Panamanian 60,000 or the Panamanian government warning us that 60,000 new illegal immigrants are going to be crossing to the United States fairly soon and them and many more of course.

But so let's go ahead and what would you like to talk about first Victor?

Well, let's try to put all of those topics, Samary that you put in reference you referenced into some kind of holistic category or exegesis and what you're talking about I think is systems collapse that's a fancy sociological word for when the Mycenaeans are the Aztecs or the Western Roman Empire just simply stop working.

Usually historians say it got too complex or knowledge was not passed on from generation to generation or the number of people who had wealth and power and technocratic ability was so small that it could be capitated but whatever we're talking about we're looking right now at San Francisco closing down Walgreens because

teenagers are going in there and looting them and the city and the community will not stop them I mean they can say they want to stop them or it's terrible but they won't stop them and the local DA will not charge them if they did stop them and the police are underfunded.

And this is the city that these people like and yet they're not going to be able to easily fulfill subscriptions and if it continues to get worse, they won't have any drug stores at all.

As we're talking about that I flew down to Los Angeles not long ago and you can look out to the horizon and container ship upon container ship is stretched out to the sunset and what I'm getting at there is that.

Either they don't have the labor or they don't have the technology like more sophisticated Chinese ports to unload them quickly enough but if you have a pie in the sky philosophy that you pay people not to work and they will lose money by working and you slowly erode the work ethic then you're not going to have three shifts 24 seven.

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