Maybe I put my comment poorly because what I wrote 4 years ago is still in my head. I had had a working hypothesis that xenophilia is antifascistic. (how about comedy? Fascism produced "Lili Marleen", but did it produce any comedians?)
My big Q was: if Pound was such a xenophile (as I had thought) when young, why did he turn to Fascism when older?
TIL that he wasn't ever xenophilic; he only dealt with the other once it had been transmuted into the familiar and he could work it on his own terms. (thus restoring my working hypothesis)
My big Q was: if Pound was such a xenophile (as I had thought) when young, why did he turn to Fascism when older?
TIL that he wasn't ever xenophilic; he only dealt with the other once it had been transmuted into the familiar and he could work it on his own terms. (thus restoring my working hypothesis)
Does that make more sense?
Thanks for your answer!
As to his potential conclusion that fascism ("tomorrow belongs to me") was the answer to "western decline", see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24696859
Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yybY0QeZdro