Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.

This is a steaming underworld: Where are the writhings? Where the cries? We came down from our overworld To see them writhe, to hear their cries.

This is done in order to put the horse in a state of action inhibition (i.e. siderating the animal) before putting the saddle on and mounting.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.