re: #294 Obdicut

Yes. It’s a reoccurring theme. I’m not debating that at all. But money and commerce have existed forever; what changed was the way that they were used, and that changed because of ideas larger than just commerce and money.

I’m not in the least bit objecting to money and commerce being a major theme, but they don’t drive change; they’re the agent and the exposition of change.

Both the Land Bank and the Bank of England were about money and commerce. One of them failed, and the other succeeded; because, as Daniel points out, one of them understood the change that had occurred in the world— the new sources of power that were coming online— and the other did not.

re: #277 Walter L. Newton

Why do you nearly always have to stoop to insults, Walter? It’s kind of odd.

1) It’s his main theme, it drives most of the other plat arcs.

2) Because you will argue with a rock.

3) Give it up, you do your fair share of insulting people here. Mr. Innocent.