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Sporadic Blogging in the Short Term - Blame Ahriman

11/7/2022

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The Ahrimanic Citadel of Darkness from which I draw my paycheck has been inundating me with obscene amounts of mind-numbing work lately, which has had a detrimental effect on my blogging consistency. Expect posts to be a bit sporadic over the next week or so. 

In the meantime, allow me to share a snippet of the sort of Litmus Test agenda material that lands on my desk for proofreading and/or translation.

Long story short - the Ahrimanics still believe they will win the "long game" against Sorath.

Yeah, good luck with that!

Anyway, snippet below.

Bold and snark in brackets added.


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In a presentation entitled "The Status and Development of Digital Central Bank Currencies (CBDC)", Prof. Dr. Krauty Von Krautface - Dean of Some Evil Citadel of Darkness in Germany - highlighted the many questions that will arise in 2022 regarding economic sustainability, one of which is the intensive research and possible introduction of digital central bank currencies.

The topic is vital and is a core project of many central banks today. A central bank digital currency is a currency controlled by a country's central bank

(You don't say?).

Several countries have already introduced it, and more than a hundred other countries are researching and developing the possibility of introducing digital currencies via central banks.

(Hey, everybody's doing it! Let's join the fun! These guys really think they're going to survive what they have helped unleash. On top of that, they honestly think they will be able to capitalize on it. How cute!)

Dr. Von Krautface stressed that this topic receives little publicity, even though introducing digital currencies will be crucial for the EU economy.

​(Yeah, I wonder why it doesn't get much publicity. Must be because of Putin or something.)

He analysed the function of money, with particular reference to digital money, the medium of exchange, the accumulation instrument and the unit of account.

He also mentioned the possible "competitors" of the euro as a digital central bank currency.


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Now, if you'll excuse me, I am going to wash my hands á la Mr. Jaggers and then repent my involvement in this bureaucratic malevolence.
  
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bruce charlton
11/7/2022 18:49:49

"the Ahrimanics still believe they will win the "long game" against Sorath."

They really do... All their biggest problems are now due to infighting among the senior bureaucrats of the various nations and corporations, squabbling over the rapidly shrinking pie.

But everything they do to crush dissent, especially the many illegal and arbitrary activities we have seen accelerating over the past two and a half years - increases the chaos.

Every time the Ahrimanic elite break their own rules, they subvert their own strategic power - and stimulate short-termist selfishness among those able to act that way.

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Francis Berger
11/7/2022 19:47:37

@ Bruce - It's beyond farcical at this point.

The excerpt was taken from a recently held conference at my place of employment, which prides itself on being "committed to sustainable and environmentally friendly operations and the dissemination of sustainability principles. The development of solutions for sustainability are also crucial tasks to which we wanted our conference to contribute."

They refuse to/can't afford to heat the building I work in this winter and will only open it two or three days a week - max - until the late spring.

Talk about subverting your own strategic power. Yet my colleagues -- the ones who subscribe to the agenda issues -- don't think there is anything particularly strange about any of it. It's just another day in paradise as far as they are concerned.

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lea
11/8/2022 08:33:29

To frame it within a movie; many believe the world is as Harvey Dent would have it at the start of The Dark Knight, ignoring everything that happens after that.

People embrace the 'incorruptible' fiction character because they do not realistically see it anywhere else anymore, including in themselves.

You could just pick up headlines and do a few footnotes, i don't think anyone in our little sphere would mind.

Michelle
11/8/2022 04:36:19

To stop myself from poking a sharp pencil in my ear and swishing it around when I worked in government, I created "buzzword bingo" for myself and a few of my like-minded colleagues. Each card had bureaucratic buzzwords or phrases on a grid ("sustainability", "collaboration", "break down silos", "equity", "stakeholders", etc). I'd hand them out at meetings and the person who got bingo first won.
Good luck and resist sharpening your pencil.

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Epimetheus
11/9/2022 02:32:40

One interesting recent Ahrimanic innovation is the idea of a social credit score. While at first glance it seems dystopian (and indeed it will inevitably be used for malignant social engineering in the West), the idea of having a kind of "reputation score" for citizens is a tremendous solution to the SCALE problem of mass societies - but only if the score actually and truly measured honesty, integrity, propensity to steal and commit violence, cheat, sexual impropriety etc. It would be hard to hurt and scam people and get away under the cover of anonymity. The social tumble and turn of a huge society could be cohered to the size of a village or small town. Imagine if breaking a girl's heart actually followed you in your stats?

In our society it would be used to measure allegiance to the rainbow coalition, of course, but what about a futuristic Christian monarchy? I don't know why I'm posting this, it's just floating around my mind.

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Francis Berger
11/9/2022 11:22:42

@ Epimetheus - I get the sense that if social credit scores are anything like conventional credit scores, then those who are the most irresponsible and most enslaved to the System will earn the highest scores. Broadly, social credit -- whatever form it takes -- is yet another attempt to whittle away what is left of "external" freedom in the world -- to bury personality beneath the objectified.

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