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And in those days he looked in vain for a city which hath foundations.
The Theater at Epidaurus in Greece (late 4th century BC) and L'Arena di Verona in Italy (30 AD) are long-enduring specimens of early western engineering, craftsmanship, and artistry.
Many comparable and arguably superior examples of engineering, craftsmanship, and artistry are attested on every continent — a great many from ages considerably earlier than the Romans or the Greeks.
They all built in stone stacked with patient precision on a firm foundation.
One would strain to name more than just a few specimens of American buildings constructed since World War Two that exhibit such high standards of workmanship.
Quite to the contrary, America's constant study and practice, for many decades now, has been the "art" of warfare; the "business" of destruction — and even at that they have plied their craft in a consistently brutal and artless fashion.
Two thousand years hence, the "cost-effective and profit-enhancing" structures built in America since 1945 will have long since been reduced to dust, rust, and vulgar pretension.
