Looking back at my last two blogs, I see that there is something of a common vein: Hollywood mining old TV and movie material, the Victorians of the 1860's suddenly switching into backward-lookingness (I hope that's a word, though perhaps it shouldn't be.)
There seemed to be another, rather worrying, thought just a knight's move away:
Does the first sign of decline appear when a culture starts to take too keen an interest in its own past ...?Civilizations rise and fall. The British have had their two hundred year-long day of glory. Their successor seems to be heading along the same twilight road, while other places appear to be on the up and up.
Interesting times.
Published on July 08, 2012 03:23