…England wasn't the first, but it's sort of the most obvious. Does anybody know how the Bank of England began? 1694, King William I of England, pursuing a war in France, borrowed 1.3 million pounds from some merchants. In exchange for that, he gives them…

…and mirrors and jargon. But I always give the example of the Bank of England. Bank of England was created in 1694 when King William wanted to fight some sort of war in France. There's always a war involved. A lot of wars with France. Yeah, a lot of…

…when I was coming back into London, and I live in South London, and so always kind of call upon the presence of William Blake when I feel in times of kind of, I know, tension, claustrophobia, frustration, like the modern world isn't quite offering me…

…claustrophobia, frustration, like the modern world isn't quite offering me everything I hoped for from life. I try and call on William Blake. And he's so interesting about time. because he thought that we can experience actually very different kinds of time.…

…you. Well, thank you, Mark. That's a lovely appreciation of Blake. And in fact, I remember reading a wonderful book called something like William Blake Visionary Anarchist. when I was a teenager and I found a copy the other day and it said this is a…

…that's absolutely right. And so the authorities at the LSE, they think that, you know, they respect your, I mean, it's like William Godwin, isn't it? I mean, he was a sort of respected philosophical anarchist. He wrote books. He was Mary Shelley's father.…

…your own perpetual subordination. Yeah, that's right. A friend of mine said he went through a gambling phase, but he bought shares in William Hill because he said that every time he lost in gambling, at least maybe the share price would go up. I don't…

…of cold-blooded, calculating adult male authority to begin with. Today, most schools are not like the Eaton and Harrow of William Golding's day, but even at those that boast of their elaborate anti-bullying programs, schoolyard bullying happens in a way…

…we have now have remained so. The Bank of England was created from a war loan, 1.2 million pounds that was loaned to King William to fight a war in France. In exchange for that, he gave the merchants who gave him the loan the right to call themselves…

…Place in lower Manhattan right there on the bedrock of earth. And he talks about how when he grew up, he learned William Newburry, M.D.: These conspiracy stories about all the gold that's beneath there and that later in life, he learned that, in fact,…

…that gold is there, it in fact is it's why we believe that there is gold there, but when 911 happened. William Newburry, M.D.: These conspiracy stories started surfacing again because people started wondering what happened to all that gold i've even heard…

…only as credit dries up and it's replaced with interest or usury, that that usury is also reframed in individualized market William Newburry, Ph.D.: dictated ways where people, of course, I mean the markets aren't dictating it it's people that are dictating…

…it it's people that are dictating the markets, but as people become to dictate it in ways that privilege interest. William Newburry, Ph.D.: Those credit markets, the local credit markets are disappearing and and I think. William Newburry, Ph.D.: That the…

…in ways that privilege interest. William Newburry, Ph.D.: Those credit markets, the local credit markets are disappearing and and I think. William Newburry, Ph.D.: That the connection that he's making is that this is a form of state formation and that if we…

…of cold-blooded, calculating adult male authority to begin with. Today, most schools are not like the Eden and Harrow of William Golding's day, but even at those that boast of their elaborate anti-bullying programs, schoolyard bullying happens in a way that's…

…the example of the origins of the Bank of England. In 1694, a group of London merchants made a loan to the King of England, William II, to fight a war in France. It's always a war. And he gave them the right to take the 1.2 million pounds that he…

…a young political scientist doing analysis on the populist party's rise and fall. In the Midwest, the most important figure was William Jennings Bryan. and his Cross of Gold speech, which, by the way, you can hear recordings of, recorded years later. This…

…can hear recordings of, recorded years later. This is one of the great speeches of American politics. It's a big part of William Sapphire's book on speeches, and great speeches were delivered in a very different way back then, because he sounds kind of…

…on speeches, and great speeches were delivered in a very different way back then, because he sounds kind of squeaky. So you've got William Jennings Bryan, the Cross of Gold, and then my own political hero when I was a kid, Richard Nixon. No lie. Don't…

…Bryan and Nixon affected the dollar in their own times. Richard Nixon would roll over in his grave to be compared to William Jennings Bryan. But in a very fundamental way, they were aiming for the same thing. William Jennings Bryan became the spokesman of…

…you know? Whereas the stuff that sort of new sci-fi does, and you can sort of see this if you read, like, William Gibson's work from Neuromancer. The new kind of sci-fi is in the realm of sort of ideological organizational change, right? That doesn't…

…and and you know the marxist educator paulo frere in brazil used to talk about internalizing the oppressor consciousness or William Blake, you know, mind-forged manacles. Instead of limiting our imagination, let's think about what the future ought to look…