tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post4340127830454585125..comments2024-03-25T15:07:41.959+00:00Comments on Nigeness: More than DutchNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-8647778160425388462017-03-25T23:20:05.178+00:002017-03-25T23:20:05.178+00:00Sure, it is an age of deplorable abuses. It is als...Sure, it is an age of deplorable abuses. It is also a fearsomely complicated time. You speak of Brexit in this relation. Were one to relate the poem to Brexit are the tulip magnates the EU Commission? Not a lot makes sense in any coherent way.Guy Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02304053177188950094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-61684696443883209692017-03-24T15:58:37.848+00:002017-03-24T15:58:37.848+00:00Very true, Guy - though it sounds as if they dikes...Very true, Guy - though it sounds as if they dikes weren't very well made. I've got nothing against capitalism, but the kind of things that go on in the City now can barely be defined as capitalism, can they? All that is solid melts into air, as the man said.Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-54597868054013675362017-03-24T09:14:36.955+00:002017-03-24T09:14:36.955+00:00Yes, agree with you about the tulip magnates or th...Yes, agree with you about the tulip magnates or the Lords of the universe trading in collateralised debt obligations but you might get an argument from some who'd say that the dike systems are only there at all because of capital from the capital and that plenty of the proletariat work in the tulip fields. It's all inter-dependent. One shouldn't be entirely surprised at those on the make as their activity can fund as well as destroy empires - cf the East India Company. It's all double-edged.Guy Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02304053177188950094noreply@blogger.com