Is time carrying us forward, or backward?
Or both at once? Technology propels us forward, politics thrusts us back. In east Asia World War Two seems as much present-tense as past. Elsewhere, as the Ukraine crisis unfolds, the Cold War, history only yesterday, looks today like tomorrow's threat.
"I am convinced that from now on the spirit of the civilization and politics of mankind is fascist ideology... . Before the iron laws of historical development, the downfall of the liberalistic, individualistic, capitalist world is unavoidable."