Post-2001 and the Third Coming of Nationalism.(Nationalism and Global War) From: Arena Journal | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Nairn, Tom | COPYRIGHT 2003 Arena Printing and Publications Pty. Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

 
   Turning and turning in the widening gyre 
   The falcon cannot hear the falconer; 
   Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; 
   Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, 
   The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere 
   The ceremony of innocence is drowned... 
 
   Surely some revelation is at hand; 
   Surely the Second Coming is at hand... 
 
   W. B. Yeats, from Michael Robartes and the Dancer, 1921 

Yeats foresaw the imminent era of nationalism and Fascism in...