Continuing from grammar and utility.
Before the holocaust I was exploring this subject in detail, noticing that languages without noun cases correlated strongly with Sorosian destruction. The holocaust derailed me; maybe I can get back on track.
In yesterday’s piece I mentioned but didn’t emphasize the TWO-WAY OBLIGATIONS, which are the key to real civilization.
The most obvious failure is our so-called neofeudal setup of renting everything. It’s not neofeudal, it’s antifeudal.
Feudalism was based on TWO-WAY OBLIGATIONS. The lord was required to support his serfs for life, including the children who weren’t working yet and the wrinklies who were too old to work. The peasants were obliged to work whenever they were capable, but generally they worked only part of each year and had frequent religious holidays.
When the London sweatshoppers invented “rights” in 1700, they instantly zeroed out the obligations on their side and doubled the obligations on the peasant side. In sweatshop world the peasants were “free” to work 16-hour days and 7-day weeks, and the lords were free (no quotes) to toss the peasants aside as soon as they got sick or old, or for any reason or no reason.
From 1910 to 1940 we brought back a considerable part of the feudal system. Social economics (eg Henry Ford) and the unions worked together to restore corporate care and pensions for peasants, and to limit the working hours and weeks. FDR placed new restrictions on stock gambling by lords, and created a government pension system to fill in the gaps between corporate pensions. He was copying the Soviet system because the Soviet system was feudal.
Gig world is identical to sweatshop world. The tech tyrants have eliminated all of FDR’s obligations on their side, and brought back stock wealth based on pure betting and number play. They don’t need to withhold taxes or pay for health care or pensions. They just pay by the piece, or ideally don’t pay at all, after cultivating the hope of salvation when the peasant’s stock options (indulgences) can be cashed in.
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Modern rental is also antifeudal. Previous rental arrangements, even in the tech world, placed a heavy weight on the provider. IBM’s computers were rented. Bell’s telephones were rented. Other complex machinery was often rented. The rentals were high by modern standards but you got quick service and real attention from real human servicemen.
Now the rentals of software and machines are cheaper, and you get nothing in return. You have to spend months in Chatbot Hell, receiving dozens of specific and empty promises.
Low price is the devil’s deal. In return for low prices on appliances you get Chinese crap. In return for low prices on phones and computers you get no service. In return for low prices on everything you get no useful work, no meaning in life.
The final stage of this process has already happened in houses and apartments. Larry Fink has stolen even the low price. Now we’re paying luxury prices and getting zero service in return.
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Bringing this back to noun cases: The old NGDA corresponded to relationships.
Nominative is the worker.
Genitive is the ownership of the material being worked on.
Dative is the customer who receives the work.
Accusative is the product being worked on.
Instrumental is skills and tools.
The new antifeudal system doesn’t need cases because there are no relationships. The workers who relate to the material are in China. The customer receives nothing except empty promises.
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Conclusion:
The overlords own everything and refuse to use what they own.
This applies to intellectual property like patents, where the purpose of IP is to block others from using it. This applies to manufacturing and retailing where the purpose of ownership is to destroy the business with LBOs so nobody else can use it. This applies to farmland where Gates is buying it all so it can’t be used for farming. This applies to coal and oil, where the owners and their pet governments are halting our consumption so it can all be shipped to China to serve the factories that are developing the skills we no longer own, working on the materials we no longer handle.
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