What fun, what entertainment. And rare: One seldom sees the collapse of a landmark society in a rush of wondrous idiocy. Would I could sell tickets. Don’t look at it as a loss, but as a show, an unwanted but grand amusement. The coup de grace in our ripening decadence is the current uprising purportedly, though implausibly, over racism against black people. But never mind. The causes don’t matter. The deal is done. Still, it is interesting to recognize that the protesters are, perhaps deliberately, confusing the status of black people with systemic racism against the lower classes who are black. In truth, America has made the greatest effort ever essayed by one race to uplift another. Reflect: In 1954 an entirely white Supreme Court unanimously ended segregation. Later it found the use of IQ tests by employers illegal because black people scored poorly, then found “affirmative action,” racial discrimination against whites, legal (hardly oppre