Who are We?

We are the modern masters of the world,
The arbiters, the heirs
Of Egypt, Greece and Italy
(We have no time for art
But we know what we like!)
We are the fulfillment of Man's Promise...
We are the Soul of the Cash Register,
The Secret of the Hire-Purchase System,
The Vacuum, and the Vacuum-Cleaner

--Sir  Osbert Sitwell

Speaking of this poem about the soul of modernism, Russell Kirk asked:

"Will the American culture and the British expire jointly 'not with a bang, but a whimper'?" 

We have made great strides in material things, but is that what man was made for? 

Who are we, after all?