Saturday 25 August 2012

Parade's End

Exactly the Toryism that the Conservative Party gave up under That Woman, whose crude identification of wealth and privilege as "merit" is now taken as read by a Cabinet the members of which would, a century ago, have been real-life versions of Christopher Tietjens.

As for Ford Madox Ford, if it has not already been done, or possibly even if it has, then someone should write something on the Modernist masters who were profoundly conservative critics of godless, rootless, usury-based, stupefied, promiscuous Modernity; of everything that has falsely come to be identified as conservatism, and that to be spread by force of arms throughout the globe in the form of neoconservatism.

Ford, T S Eliot, the cautionary tale of Ezra Pound, the horrific perversion of those noble intentions in Knut Hamsun: there is an immensely timely book in there.

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