Gotta agree with William's response here (though Pound was more a Mussolini man than a Hitler). Ezra Pound did and wrote some cherishable things, but his opinion of his own intellect was over-inflated. He had great regard for linguistic adroitness -- especially his own -- and I feel sure he took it as a measure of intelligence in other disciplines -- like psychology, politics, and economics.
His line, "Good art weathers the ages because once in so often a man of intelligence commands the mass to adore it," actually does apply to a narrow stratum of sheep-like would-be intelligentsia all of whose opinions are adopted verbatim from a convinced, forceful "authority". Smarter people cannot like something simply because someone has told them to, and less sophisticated people simply don't care about "good art". Meantime Berg's second citation -- the article by Neal Gabler in the L.A. Times decrying collaborations in art -- is polysyllabic self-delusion. It is again the speech of someone with a rich and supple lexicon and a stone-dead mind. In a message dated 6/26/10 10:15:13 PM, [email protected] writes: > Yeah, like Hitler, Wasn't he Ezra's hero?
