This oughtta get interesting.
Fortunately, there are still an alarming number of people around who have no compunction against shooting folks who try to dictate what they do and how they do it, especially non-governmental folks who have no authority to even attempt doing so. By definition, NGO's are "Non-Governmental Organizations", hence, no authority to attempt telling folks what to do or how or when to do it.
Lead, or possibly energy beams, will fly.
I understand they intend to put a death-grip on markets and financial exchange media first, in order to force compliance, but that is a first-world "solution" to a non-problem that decidedly will not affect as many folks as they think it will. In short, they cannot conceive of people who can live with or without electricity, so electricity is the wrong throat for them to grab.
Why, believe it or not, there are actually people on this planet who have a specialty in "ending" private company "enforcer" goons who mistakenly think they are police (but without any governmental backing). I sure as hell wouldn't want to be one of the jackbooted thugs that go after them. We hillbillies, for just one example, have routinely sent what we called "gun thugs" to an early, permanent, and well deserved retirement for the last hundred years or so. We are not the only ones, either.
And lets not forget the "criminal" elements. Most folks have the mistaken notion that "money makes the world go around", and believe they can somehow seize power by putting a choke-hold on finances. Fortunately,there are lots of other folks who ALSO believe that money makes the world go around, and to get their share of it, will turn to crime. Now, I know, I know, the financial wizards think that this new wrinkle will somehow "end crime" - but it won't. Not by a long shot. Crime, and before laws were a thing, what we would consider criminal acts now, have always been with us, ever since humans have been humans. No system designed to end crime has ever, in the history of the world, been successful, and neither will this. Criminals will find ways to game the system, and/or ways around the system altogether.
A surprising number of those criminals - now get this - don't give the least shit about the law or it's enforcers, and will not allow such trivialities to harsh their mellow or slow them down.
Some of those "criminals" will turn to crime out of necessity rather than choice. People, throughout history, have found ways to survive in the face of systems that were designed to beat them down and keep them there. When they've had to merely survive long enough, they get tired of that shit and burn that system down.
So, while I have no doubts at all that they will try this, indeed are trying it right now, this too shall pass.
As a final thought, when civilization becomes dumbed down enough to actually try this cockamamie scheme of putting all their financial eggs in this shaky electric/ electronic basket, then that civilization is just a single solar flare away from extinction. Take heart, however - there are people all around the world in out of the way places (the Amazon, Papua New Guinea, etc.) who will, even as the rest of "civilization" are eating one another just to survive, will not even realize that civilization has ended. Life will continue there just as it always has, and they won't even notice that the rest of the world has shit itself while it was only straining to fart.
So, they can put that in their pipe and smoke it, just to see what other pipe-dreams they are saddled with.
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Fortunately, there are still an alarming number of people around who have no compunction against shooting folks who try to dictate what they do and how they do it, especially non-governmental folks who have no authority to even attempt doing so. By definition, NGO's are "Non-Governmental Organizations", hence, no authority to attempt telling folks what to do or how or when to do it.
Lead, or possibly energy beams, will fly.
I understand they intend to put a death-grip on markets and financial exchange media first, in order to force compliance, but that is a first-world "solution" to a non-problem that decidedly will not affect as many folks as they think it will. In short, they cannot conceive of people who can live with or without electricity, so electricity is the wrong throat for them to grab.
Why, believe it or not, there are actually people on this planet who have a specialty in "ending" private company "enforcer" goons who mistakenly think they are police (but without any governmental backing). I sure as hell wouldn't want to be one of the jackbooted thugs that go after them. We hillbillies, for just one example, have routinely sent what we called "gun thugs" to an early, permanent, and well deserved retirement for the last hundred years or so. We are not the only ones, either.
And lets not forget the "criminal" elements. Most folks have the mistaken notion that "money makes the world go around", and believe they can somehow seize power by putting a choke-hold on finances. Fortunately,there are lots of other folks who ALSO believe that money makes the world go around, and to get their share of it, will turn to crime. Now, I know, I know, the financial wizards think that this new wrinkle will somehow "end crime" - but it won't. Not by a long shot. Crime, and before laws were a thing, what we would consider criminal acts now, have always been with us, ever since humans have been humans. No system designed to end crime has ever, in the history of the world, been successful, and neither will this. Criminals will find ways to game the system, and/or ways around the system altogether.
A surprising number of those criminals - now get this - don't give the least shit about the law or it's enforcers, and will not allow such trivialities to harsh their mellow or slow them down.
Some of those "criminals" will turn to crime out of necessity rather than choice. People, throughout history, have found ways to survive in the face of systems that were designed to beat them down and keep them there. When they've had to merely survive long enough, they get tired of that shit and burn that system down.
So, while I have no doubts at all that they will try this, indeed are trying it right now, this too shall pass.
As a final thought, when civilization becomes dumbed down enough to actually try this cockamamie scheme of putting all their financial eggs in this shaky electric/ electronic basket, then that civilization is just a single solar flare away from extinction. Take heart, however - there are people all around the world in out of the way places (the Amazon, Papua New Guinea, etc.) who will, even as the rest of "civilization" are eating one another just to survive, will not even realize that civilization has ended. Life will continue there just as it always has, and they won't even notice that the rest of the world has shit itself while it was only straining to fart.
So, they can put that in their pipe and smoke it, just to see what other pipe-dreams they are saddled with.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake