The entire system is now designed and set up to funnel publically created money to flow into private,often foreign hands. Unless that changes it'll just be more of the same
Superb work, Bear. Telling stories make points stick in your readers minds. I am also loving the imagined conversations between Machiavelli, Rousseau, Locke and Hobbes in your book, which is far more entertaining than the subject matter deserves 👏👏👏
Bear, whatever it is you're imbibing - keep going. You amuse and inform simultaneously and little sticks in the mind of your reader more than that which makes one laugh.
NB (medieval version)
I tried 'they' instead of 'one' but I'm afraid it leapt out and slapped me like a wet fish trying to escape a quayside. Sorry.
Dear Bear, you may have “had a week” ( and I do hope that you are now in recharge mode), but the simplicity of this tale is brilliant in its message. Proper fire side stuff and may we all be warm enough despite efforts to make this a struggle. We do deserve better than the constant manipulation by MSM and owners. The “poor farmers” of the past week is just a superb example of this apocalyptic and deliberate spin. Perhaps we all like a sob story which threatens us all……,bit of a mass bonding experience maybe but I have to ask because I haven’t the foggiest: how may this be turned to provide more honest information? I venture that there’s way too much “sucking it up” going on, dear goodness, I struggle at times.
Brilliant stuff, Bear! Really clever juxtaposition of Victorian privilege and struggling workers (which we all recognise, largely thanks to Dickens) with today's parallel situation (which we largely don't recognise).
The most striking sentence in the text is this one: “She flutters her fan delicately, as though dispersing a hint of discomfort from the room”. Not only great craft but also, in a way, a summary of the whole discussion.
But for one Timothy, probably not his real name but one given by his masters, more Timothies who agree with the premise that the ruling classes, today the vulture capitalists, know better than the rest of us.
Personally, I feel our old idea of societal strata can no longer be applied to the current global situation. Even the 'wealthy', in the traditional societal sense, have little truck with what's going on. Today's shakers & movers sit way above even governments and appear to dictate to many of them.
To me, this is why individual Govts are failing to act against them. Logic dictates that banding together (getting back together with the rest of Europe) would give us a greater chance of disrupting their awful influence through the protection that collectivism can offer in, what in my mind is, this war for our souls.
The entire system is now designed and set up to funnel publically created money to flow into private,often foreign hands. Unless that changes it'll just be more of the same
What a surprise read. Thoroughly enjoyed it, very apt.
Brilliantly written, Bear. Quite enjoyed the settings and the unfolding play. I'd love to see it turned into a short film.
Splendid way of showing how the 'poor farmers' are indeed not.
Superb work, Bear. Telling stories make points stick in your readers minds. I am also loving the imagined conversations between Machiavelli, Rousseau, Locke and Hobbes in your book, which is far more entertaining than the subject matter deserves 👏👏👏
Bear, whatever it is you're imbibing - keep going. You amuse and inform simultaneously and little sticks in the mind of your reader more than that which makes one laugh.
NB (medieval version)
I tried 'they' instead of 'one' but I'm afraid it leapt out and slapped me like a wet fish trying to escape a quayside. Sorry.
Outstanding!
Really enjoyed this Bear - spot on. In the great tradition of social comment and hard truths under a mischievously thin fictitious disguise. 😊
And again Bear, you nailed it 👏
Bravo Bear, bravo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Dear Bear, you may have “had a week” ( and I do hope that you are now in recharge mode), but the simplicity of this tale is brilliant in its message. Proper fire side stuff and may we all be warm enough despite efforts to make this a struggle. We do deserve better than the constant manipulation by MSM and owners. The “poor farmers” of the past week is just a superb example of this apocalyptic and deliberate spin. Perhaps we all like a sob story which threatens us all……,bit of a mass bonding experience maybe but I have to ask because I haven’t the foggiest: how may this be turned to provide more honest information? I venture that there’s way too much “sucking it up” going on, dear goodness, I struggle at times.
Brilliant stuff, Bear! Really clever juxtaposition of Victorian privilege and struggling workers (which we all recognise, largely thanks to Dickens) with today's parallel situation (which we largely don't recognise).
The most striking sentence in the text is this one: “She flutters her fan delicately, as though dispersing a hint of discomfort from the room”. Not only great craft but also, in a way, a summary of the whole discussion.
But for one Timothy, probably not his real name but one given by his masters, more Timothies who agree with the premise that the ruling classes, today the vulture capitalists, know better than the rest of us.
Hello A-LD.
Personally, I feel our old idea of societal strata can no longer be applied to the current global situation. Even the 'wealthy', in the traditional societal sense, have little truck with what's going on. Today's shakers & movers sit way above even governments and appear to dictate to many of them.
To me, this is why individual Govts are failing to act against them. Logic dictates that banding together (getting back together with the rest of Europe) would give us a greater chance of disrupting their awful influence through the protection that collectivism can offer in, what in my mind is, this war for our souls.
Brilliant stuff Bear.
I studied 17th century British social & political history back in the day.
Fun to revisit the Factories Acts!
I love this semi-fictitious past & present comparison. And I’m not the only one reading this that thinks it could be adapted for TV.
It would be refreshing to see more political satire on our screens like the good old days of Spitting Image.
Absolutely brilliant, 👍