With a hundred years more experience, this update makes sense.
And the USA taking back its superpower status?
This stanza is from the original:
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the God of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.”
“It has been made clear, in the last hundred years, the Market Place is much closer attuned to reality than is the Marxist Place.”
Kipling was critizing the gods of the market place - the faddish gods, the gods of the tastes of the moment.
I agree that his poem should be the anthem of conservatism.
His last stanza is very prophetic and we’re living it.
“Now I shall go far and far into the North, playing The Great Game.” Kim