“The great appear great because we are on our knees. Let us rise”: a timely essay by his Irishness @fotoole.bsky.social on the project of imperialism and national vanity as lampooned in “Gulliver’s Travels.”
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Like Gulliver in Lilliput, “greatness” in the political realm depends on the existence of a group deemed puny or weak.
