In the long run, the British culture of checking, enduring, regulating and filling in insufficiency will be vital to balancing the world against a centralizing Asian power.

There's a growing longing in people's hearts - a pull - toward authoritarian and religious control. People are chasing Moby Dick's white whale and are filling their hearts with that craving and emotional desire to follow a goal.

It can be really disruptive to a culture that depends on satisfying wants, giving results to clear needs and obtaining what's lacking.

Britian needs a clearer, beautiful relationship to it's future and maybe we can move past nostalgia for the 1800s.