In the early twentieth century Italian poet F T Marinetti launched Futurism an artistic movement rejecting the past scoffing at traditional ideas of beauty and glorifying instead machinery In Marinetti wrote his Manifesto of Futurism in which he declared ldquo contempt for women rdquo praised ldquo the blow with the fist rdquo and asserted ldquo We want to glorify war rdquo The manifesto concludes ldquo Standing on the world rsquo s summit we launch once again our insolent challenge to the stars rdquo Five years after Marinetti rsquo s manifesto modern warfare began in earnest World War I did not [... more]