I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a way that may exceed what happened in the late nineteenth century, early twentieth century.
In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were all evolving, but at a pretty observable pace.
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and am not inclined to leave it.
