Reading Wyndham Lewis’s “The Art of Being Ruled” (1926) I realise that I have seriously underestimated this man. He effectively diagnoses everything that has happened that is usually grouped under the erroneous terms “cultural Marxism”, “Eurocommunism”, & “postmodernism”.
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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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