Why Conspiracy Theories?

[version]

Is it a parody account? That pic and this...

Klaus Schwab
@_Klaus_Schwab
Replying to
@MattHancock
In the post-truth age of #FakeNews there is one man in the United Kingdom who the people have confidence in. Mr Hancock will implement laws to prosecute anti-vaxxers and deploy the #coronavirus vaccine so people are protected.

 

[Mr. Tea]

That's what the vaccine's for: to dismantle the unsustainable pyramid scheme.

How's it meant to do that?

 

[luka]

"The rise in population was evident already in the Late Bronze Age, for instance in measures taken to economise in the use of bronze, even though new deep mines for copper had been opened."

 

[catalog]

let me guess - prynne's note on metal?

de landa talks about metal when he talks about money. barter as a system is inefficient, cos you have to wait til people are happy with the straight swap. so we tethered to metal which could be an intermediary that we all thought valuable. paper money sits on this tether but has now become untethered and has no referent anymore. probably if we went back to metal alot of problems would be solved but we cant cos it's too slow

 

[luka]

The anthropologists say barter never existed it s a load of bollocks made up story

 

[catalog]

i think de landa is talking more in ahistorical terms, not necessarily true as observed, more true as an idea

 

[IdleRich]

let me guess - prynne's note on metal?

de landa talks about metal when he talks about money. barter as a system is inefficient, cos you have to wait til people are happy with the straight swap. so we tethered to metal which could be an intermediary that we all thought valuable. paper money sits on this tether but has now become untethered and has no referent anymore. probably if we went back to metal alot of problems would be solved but we cant cos it's too slow

But every time they try and tie it to a commodity it goes tits up. I guess cos someone wants to print more money but they don't have the underlying thing they go "fuck it, let's go back to fiat money" or whatever. You can't uninvent that I suppose is what I'm saying.

 

[catalog]

yes and the map is not the territory, you'll never be able to make anything work perfectly

 

[catalog]

you could bring mcluhan in here as well. metals are slow media. bitcoin is fast media etc

 

[version]

Farage has been going on about gold and silver recently. He's set up some new finance newsletter.

Fortune and Freedom

Get the truth about your money – behind the headlines, jargon and spin. Fortune & Freedom, with Nigel Farage, is here to help.

fortuneandfreedom.com

 

[luka]

Do you get Brian Rose for mayor too? Or is that targeted at Londonders?

 

[version]

Me?

 

[luka]

Yeah you

 

[version]

No.

 

[luka]

London Real with Brian Rose @shiels loves it

 

[shiels]

Have we talked about him? Unsettling

 

[luka]

You just kept saying how much you admire him.

 

[IdleRich]

I haven't read the article yet but seems as though Telegraph writers have been scouring dissensus for inspiration. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/a...qanon-holy-grail-illuminati-innocent-english/

 

[Mr. Tea]

I haven't read the article yet but seems as though Telegraph writers have been scouring dissensus for inspiration. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/a...qanon-holy-grail-illuminati-innocent-english/

Hmm, I see it touches on a few points that are explored in much greater depth in this incredibly insightful essay on the relationship between hoaxes, literature and conspiracy theories.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Bizarre that the super-good vaccine turned up on Bidet's media coronation after we had been told it would be months away.