Decline & Fall

"The British Empire, in steep decline on the eve of WW1, is a cautionary tale for a decayed US Empire a century later."

H.G. Wells "excoriated the British political elite for its ignorance & ineptitude. They had vulgarized democracy with their racism, hypernationalism & simplistic cliché-ridden public discourse..."

"When a crisis came, these mandarins, like our own, would set the funeral pyre of empire alight."

Chris Hedges Dec 27

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