The Waves Rule Britannia (Some Notes on the UK of Invisible Hands)

RUN LIKE HELL RUN LIKE HELL RUN LIKE HELL RUN LIKE HELL RUN LIKE HELL RUN LIKE HELL In the UK, the god who rules is Flood, much like the Economy dominates the USA. The other seven must carve their domains back from the hungry and careless sea, as it rolls fat on misery and abortive Dunkirk fleets spurting for France. When fear settles here, we reflexively allow our minds to leap back in time, like hedgehogs curling - the arrival of the New Gods made everyone really scared, so the mind leapt back really far. At least, that’s one explanation for the formation of a “Heptarchy” in England. That’s the name that many have adopted for these squabbling, violent pockets of British “civilisation”. They’re still fighting over who will take over the UN Security Council seat, if the UN ever returns to our plane of operation. Who wants to rule the world? Ha ha. Ha ha. Not us! We’re perfectly fine not ruling the world. We don’t get twisted up all nasty and gnarled about where we’ve ended up! No sir!…