What is the author's tone in Guide to Kulchur by Ezra Pound?

The tone of Guide to Kulchur will strike the reader first encountering Pound as bizarre and unstable. Pound will often capitalize words when he becomes excited and other times mill about aimlessly, making unrelated comments on culture. Even between short essays, Pound will change tone, again oscillating from a kind of bombastic urgency to a detached cultural review. The bombastic urgency manifests itself most clearly in Pound's condemnation of usury and Anglo-American culture.

However, the tone shifts to explicit admiration when Pound comes across historical figures that he admires. For instance, he constantly praises Confucius' Analects and expresses a deep admiration not only for Mussolini but the American Founders as well. The tone in these passages is that of one who believes that these men were among the few who "got it" or truly understood the meaning of civilization and how to maintain it.