It is little surprise that this book is little known and Lewis not celebrate. He poses too many questions for the dominant ideology. No big BBC celebrations of his life. When the establishment wants something to die they ignore it.
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An aside, “The Art of Being Ruled” is published by Black Sparrow Press. This is Bukowski’s press. Bukowski suffers bc he became too popular after being too obscure. A reaction has now set in against his popularity. He was a man of the & and a solid writer, though not a genius.
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(*man of the right) Black Sparrow is a rightist name. Don’t why. It just is. Anyway, I’d be interested to know how far back Lewis’s diagnoses goes. I always thought it started with Bloomsbury. But WWI seems key. Socially, beginning to think we’re living in the long 1920s.
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I often think that socially the 1920s is not different to today: flappers and thots, jazz bands and hip hop...etc. We are still, socially, living in a post-WWI scenario. The termination of Victorianism really in 1914. Will the 1920s ever end? It must.
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Lewis understood this change ans simply telescoped it out. This is why ABR is so prophetic and still feels relevant. The 1920s marked the ascendency of the feminine principle in the West: democratic, communistic, hedonistic, sexual, pornographic. Can we escape?
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We are at a break point, I believe. 100 years since the Great War. 100 years since the 1920s started. What is required to change direction? Another world war? Or is it something more subtle than that? I don’t know. Still, I think this decade is an inflexion point.
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