Britain makes a noise. <br />An actual noise, did you know that? <br /><br />It groans. <br />It's been groaning for some time. <br /><br />A hum, that only very few people can hear. <br /><br />Never stopping. <br /><br />A million important questions to be asked of our nation. <br /><br />Our species, our planet, and no-one's asking the right ones. <br /><br />All I hear is noise. <br /><br />“Do you have any thoughts?” <br /><br />Yeah, it's fucked, we're all fucked. <br /><br />“What are your thoughts on providing strategy for our many clients?” <br /><br />Be polite. Engaged. <br /><br />Don't tell them what you're really thinking. <br /><br />“So... what do you think?” <br /><br />What do I think? <br /><br />Just breathe, and think of Mary. Breathe? <br /><br />I think... <br /><br />“Dominic? What do you think?” <br /><br />Breathe. <br /><br />I think... <br /><br />Oh, shit. <br /><br />Stupid. You should advise your businesses that as a global society we are entering a series of profound economic, cultural, social and political transitions, the like of which The World has never seen. <br /><br />Educated people are the most stupid. <br /><br />Massive increase in resource requirements. <br /><br />You need an Odyssean education. A rising tide of religious extremism. <br /><br />A synthesis of...intergenerational inequality in The West on an historic level. <br /><br />Apollonian rationality and Dionysian intuition. <br /><br />I would tell them that for the past years, decades, even, this firm has FAILED to prepare ANY of them for ANY of it. <br /><br />We live in a multiverse of differing branches of History. <br /><br />And, in a different branch of History, I was never here, some of you voted differently, and this never happened. <br /><br />But I was. <br /><br />And it did. <br /><br />Everyone knows who won. <br /><br />But not everyone knows how.
