Read it and tell me which movement it is describing... “In spite of all revolutionary claims, the movement was fundamentally escapist. What purported to be revolt against the dullness and dreariness of the burgeois world was at the bottom, a retreat into a special state of mind not seeking to change the world, but despising it. As the protest against society was confined to a turning away from society it denied itself and devalued itself into acts of lonely self-gratification. Significantly the movement, although its members were undoubtedly the country’s elite, evolved no theories or concepts of social criticism and left only intoxicated protestations of its youthfulness just as its whole reproach against society began not from concrete social phenomena but from its own malaise, and remained stuck at its starting point. Always “what dwells beyond the mountains” seemed to this movement more important than what was happening in the factories, the centres of power, or the scientific laboratories. Its inability to articulate clearly, demonstrated in a plethora of proclamations was merely the expression of its technological, political and social apathy, which a high-minded and impetuous, but at the same time self satisfied idealism could not counter balance…”
Posted on: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 10:45:02 +0000
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