"Did you really think, Jack, when the blokes in Top Hats stormed in and ripped up the landscape, that the message you were being sent was an unambiguous "What a lovely thing to happen, how proud we should all feel about it"?"

They sure looked proud, especially K.B.

Sure! Why not? According to the notes the NBC people were reading the industrial revolution, which started in England, ushered in unprecedented prosperity.