This short manifesto by Lewis is literally just him saying "blast" and then naming something he dislikes. Which seems to be pretty much everything. He says "Curse" and "Blast" to so many different things, that an argument is hard to come by in this short reading. However, there is one thing he does not "blast", and that is the "Real". He says to blast the arch enemy of the real, implying that he favors the real.
This would show that he only hates these things because none of them are "real". This was written near the start of WWI, and by this time the War was inevitable. This manifesto seems to be saying that America should be only focused on this war at hand and forget and block out absolutely everything else, that will not help them win the war.
Why is this written in such a strange fashion?
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