Detroit in ruins

Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre's extraordinary photographs documenting the dramatic decline of a major American city

These pictures fill me with such sadness.  We have allowed our cities, our infrastructures, our cultural and architectural landmarks to fall into a state beyond repair.  Detroit fucking Michigan was THE industrial hub of this nation not even 50 years ago, and now it has become an urban wasteland.  This city is a metaphor for the gradual decline-into-disintegration of America as Crumbling Empire. 

The cancer of concentrated money and power flowing to the Controlling Interests of this country to the exclusion of the rest of society metastasizes first in Detroit, and will spread quickly around the country, destroying cities and spirits alike. The pundit class continues to "search" blindly for the root cause, blaming all those but the ones to blame, those who sign their checks, and sadly, all are unwilling to make any sacrifice to keep us, our country, and our former way of life alive.  We will all continue to die slowly, until we begin to die quickly. 

And then, the real chaos will begin..