Day 1,377: degenerate, grandstanding: heft

Over the decades the movement degenerated into grandstanding and anti-Americanism. Lacking cohesion, military clout, permanent membership of the un security council, economic heft or a presence on the frontiers of tech and finance, it had little power.

Can the West win over the rest?

Artwork of the day 
Interior view of the Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican near the Grandstand
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Original Title: Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano vicino alla Tribuna
Style: Neoclassicism
Series: Vedute di Roma
Genre: cityscape

Word of the day 
degenerated: to become worse in quality
grandstanding: acting or speaking in a way intended to attract the good opinion of other people who are watching
heft: the influence, ability, or importance that someone or something has

Quote of the day
“And I took a seat in the grandstand of philosophical detachment to fall asleep observing the cannibals do their death dance.”
― Eugene O'Neill, The Iceman Cometh