And thus goes the Empire...
Kipling would be appalled.
Someone who's opinion I generally respect suggested the ascendency of this sort of nonsense in England and other parts of Europe is possibly the result of the fact that so many normal and manly men were killed in WWI and WWII and what was left over was an over-representation of cowardly poofs.
Kipling would be appalled.
Maybe not. The primary characteristic i've seen in several of Kipling's poems is the clear understanding of the foolishness of human nature. This one, for example tells me that he understood the consistency of fools in our society all too well.