Fate will bend otherwise the lines on your palm, like a switchman; Sooner or later, Time will affirm this. [Odysseas Elytis – The Monogram]
Θα γυρίσει αλλού τις χαρακιές τής παλάμης, η Μοίρα, σαν κλειδούχος. Μια στιγμή θα συγκατατεθεί ο Καιρός. [Οδυσσέας Ελύτης, Μονόγραμμα]
Competitiveness, debt hair cuts, rebalancing, debt ceiling, zombie banks, deleveraging, automatic stabalizers, extensive margin, hyperbolic discounting (1, 2), Oops (3), price caps, minimum wage…
Economic jargon is something more than just a set of weird words used by weird economy people.
They are a tool of re-defining society.
As Orwell very intuitively put it in 1984… “We’re getting the language into its final shape — the shape it’s going to have when nobody speaks anything else. When we’ve finished with it, people like you will have to learn it all over again. You think, I dare say, that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We’re destroying words — scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re cutting the language down to the bone […] It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. […] In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it“… (4)
The new are full of headlines on how CTBTO managed to detect the nuclear blast of the North Korea recent test. Through sensors – both seismic and even radioactivity sensors (really?) – the agency is said to be able to determine even the type of the device tested. (1, 2, 3)
This is what technology and science gives us!
Really?
Think again!
It is all a matter of prejudice. As modern fortune-tellers, scientism lovers feel oblidged to We THINK we can detect a nuclear explosion with the detectors deployed by CTBTO only because we ALREADY know a test took place!!!
Simple, yet the TRUE ESSENCE of our “capabilities”. Have we not known the “bad” N. Korea would do any test, we would still be discussing various theories on what this “unexplained” phenomenon might be…
If everyone accepts what you do…
If no one disagrees with you…
If many people like your work…
If too many follow you blog…
Then you are certainly doing something wrong!
