Gilder was already talking about
the coming age of network abundance. And being Gilder,
he didn't stop there. He vividly imagined a "new epoch
of spirit and faith" in which all of us would live in
the "majestic cumulative power, truth, and transcendence
of contemporary science and wealth." He also coined the
term telecosm to describe the merging of newer
technologies, especially fiber optics, with existing
telecommunications systems.


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At one of my temp jobs, a partner CFA saw me xeroxing a business article
about big problems in certain tech areas I consider "internetty," and said
"Finance is 99% bullshit. No one knows what the market is going to do." The
little boy who lives in my mouth says "any human will learn more about
business by temping at a hedge fund than in any MBA program on this earth."

I prefer not to mean that as a joke, but I'm Boywolfcry so let me be more
sincere. What I'm saying, and this is something I HAVE NOT PROVEN (please
don't accuse me of saying I have), is that our MBA programs don't teach
reality. I mean "temping at a biz > MBA" literally and my goal with Genius
2000 is to change this to the better. And I will; I mean, I already did.

I've gotten a cyber-phrase habit. When in Rome I guess. But if the RSG
Carnivore is saying or admitting the system cannot and does not sniff itself,
does not debug itself, it's a statement that finance is 99% bullshit.
RSGCarn doesn't mean or say what Alex Galloway, the top geek and lowlife in
charge, wants it to. (That would be using the intentional fallacy.) So it
talks or g2ks about stuff like people eating meat and loving it–"I'm a
Carnivore!" Same for the MBA programs not teaching anything remotely
resembling quality knowledge of what business is. RSG is saying there is
this thing the government has, which private citizens do not, plus we can't
even use ours really–just kick and scream.

Is RSG Carnivore worthy of any regard if it doesn't make us more powerful
fighters? Making powerful fighters is the heart of it. Natalie's anger is
one proof of this, hell even Lucas's clone army. Military-corporate
recruitment and procurement. I.e. every single thing that happens in a
techno-military system.

We hear now that World War 2 was the most important thing about the 20th c.,
but I would say the Great Depression was really it. WW2 was more like the
medicine, some kind of CPR, a close call emergency measure.

I mention the GD because isn't that the real, evil enemy? Just 70 short
years ago regular Americans felt socialism deserved a fair shake, and wanted
to vote for it. After all "capitalism is working fine" didn't fly then. I
really haven't heard anything about whether 9-11 warrants a serious move
toward socialism.

I don't have the numbers on that one however so who cares. It's strange how
the big-size marketbuilders use so much creative writing to produce
compellingly true predictions of what will happen. What if Gilder hadn't
said what he did, but said "wow this is all a hecka baloney"? He wouldn't
have been Gilder. It's kind of how the system eats you up for supper, in
your sleep.

If I recall the Great Depression started because of bad–very
bad–investments. Almost every company failed and went bankrupt.
Unfortunately it wasn't a good thing, it erased all the capital. It was as
if just one part of the system was broken–factories were building cars no
one had enough cheese to buy, so you got dick–and because that one blew out
the entire system lost liquidity. It was a bad breakdown. Maybe it was good
we all got out of it, even if it was into the fire.

Now we have the harsh legacy that we have to keep our companies powerful. Is
there anything like this in SimCity? The principle is the same I guess. But
it's such a vicious curse if you look at huge companies doing
horrible–business-horrible–stuff and really having no respectable
explanation of themselves after they go bust.

I guess there's the good fact that our systems are not all in one, parts can
go bust and others will cover during repairs. So hopefully all the backup
systems work and all, maybe RSG Carnivore is such a backup system.

What's the G2K solution you ask? Well I use backup systems and initiator
systems interchangeably. Both a an equal drag on my resources so I pretty
much hold a fifty-fifty. What resources you ask? Why my investment genius
of course. There's two books I didn't write, "Investing: The Last Liberal
Art" and "Invest With a Genius" out this year. My rejoinder is a small
monograph, "Altruvestment", which I'll be publishing in an unnamed zine here
in the metro area under a fake name in the next year or two.

The worst and shittiest curse in life is when you have to say "hey boss this
is broken." Jack Lemmon in China Syndrome say, Oedipus, whoever. If you
don't shut up they'll turn you into a slave, and your auntie too. Eventually
we monitor ourselves out of fear, as Foucault proved. What is that fear? Is
it real, or justified? I guess Foucault says even the fear goes away, we
feel safe even though we're driven by fear. Fear is the mind-killer bto.

Cross to Natalie?

Max

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