Richard J. Eskow on The Obama Center

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See American Ozymandias: Part 1, The Obama Center in Chicago:

Many people remember Percy Shelley’s poem Ozymandias from their student days. Others discovered it in the Breaking Bad episode of the same name. The famously anti-imperialist work tells the story of a broken ruin, all that remains of a vanished empire. Ozymandias, the king who built this tribute to himself, speaks to passersby in an inscription: “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.” The point, of course, is that his works have vanished with time. A nameless traveler describes the scene:

“Round the decay/Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare/The lone and level sands stretch far away.”



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