Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 

6 July 2013

“Another struggle has been the struggle to keep the value of a local and particular character, of a particular culture in this awful maelstrom, this awful avalanche towards uniformity.”

Remark made by US poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) in an interview published in the second series, published in 1963, of the Paris Review’s “Writers at Work”.

Editorial note:

Readers of this blog who have checked out two recent posts – “Dark satanic mills” published on 3 July 2013 and “The pachyderm in the pyramid” published on 5 July 2013 – might like to know that they have both been expanded significantly in the meantime.

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 You might perhaps care to view some of our earlier posts.  For instance:

1. Why? or How? That is the question (3 Jan 2012)

2. Partitocracy v. Democracy (20 July 2012)

3. The shoddiest possible goods at the highest possible prices (2 Feb 2012)

4. Capitalism in practice  (4 July 2012) 

5.Ladder  (21 June 2012)

 6. A tale of two cities (1)  (6 June 2012)

 7. A tale of two cities (2)  (7 June 2012)

 8. Where’s the beef? Ontology and tinned meat (31 Jan 2012)

Every so often we shall change this sample of previously published posts.

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