Reading Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis helped me understand that English self-hatred—perphaps more accurately decadence—has deep roots. The unrealism of the metropolis, insultated from reality for too long, gave rise to decadence by at least the early 1900s.
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“The American Century: 1917-2017” That has a nice ring for future histories. Are we in a Chinese century, now? Or will we live in a disputed century? Possibly we will only know after the next major war.
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