A Victor Davis Hansen Quote

Evil is ancient-- We both said it, never knowing one another.
Yet, what I was thinking about were the Romans and Aztecs,
And making them analogous to our current issues.
How we tend to, as Americans, remember our golden age
When the worst among us were better than today's saints...
For love abounded in those days, and I remember it well...
We tend to think it were the oldest--and it is actually--
But then I remembered Ransom's fight with Winston
And Perelandra's Eve saying the Devil's words were old.
Yet, I remember that Good is also ancient, and so I said
"Just like good." 

For our homosexuals are ancient: and so is the rampant swindling...
It has existed in India forever, and Juggernaut would trample
The suicidal worshipper. It's just the better part was my first experience,
And innocence my first thoughts, like any true child.
So, we must remind ourselves, evil existed before us.