Shades that Orwell Missed

There is a savage irony about the Russian Ukraine conflict.

Russia understood themselves to be indestructible again. They had snatched Crimea, wicked Georgia for some of its terrirtory. Put whoever was stirring in Kazakstan in irons and then decided to annex Ukraine and have found themselves in a bad place.

And much as they want to rant and bluster they are in over their heads and losing troops boats planes and tanks for a minimal gain and have become the worst kids on the block to the world.

Worst of all they seem to have completely missed the extent to which they are putting themselves out of the emerging world game…

In reality they are a one point three trillion dollar economy that has decided to beat up an economy half their size. They have a thirteen trillion dollar economy dodgy neighbour on one side of them that seems to be playing friend with beneifits.

They are issuing threats to Ukraine’s friends who are a military alliance comprising combines eighteen trillion dollar economies… And being disturbingly annoying to the European Union that collectively is slightly bigger than their dodgy neighbour.

And then there is their “big bad wolf” antagonist enemy Firmia… Or if you prefer, USA, that is a twenty three trillion dollar enemy… and there are another fifteen or so trillion on the sidelines… Ultimately it is an unwindable conflict and if it goes nuclear… which is entirely possible then it will be eviscerated… notwithstanding how many nukes it has…

Nukes have never been used and have been waiting years how do they know they will work, will do so in devastating enough single blow that all opposition is overwhelmed immediately and they=re is no counter strike.

Russia winning is a seriously long shot… like betting that Apple [for instance] will close their business for cash shortish reasons… Somehow they missed the bows with their opening shots…

They will lose and the EU will levy charges for the damage. To get away with blowing a place up you need to win… And that means they will need a begging bowl… and people will forget to pay ever if they can be persuaded to carry the war damage costs…

China will retake it stolen urban hangout Now called Vladivostok… and Russia will have internal konfliks that could easily break up the Federation and will prevent it from capitalising on the massive coast line that will be available to them by 2070.

So blind to what is happening Russia is trading a muddy puddle of water within a controlled axis facility to grab a couple of relative fishing towns. that history will demonstrate to become obsolete before a child being born today turns forty… and could be sacrificing the prospective golden nuggets that could Vladivostok in the temperate zone environment many predict for 2070… And quite possibly part of an expending Chinese hegemony.

PostRevolutionAwakening

Blog 7 Sept 2019

This is a different blog to the one I thought I was going to put up online this week.

 
On Monday I listened to a partially inaudible speech by an aging, and not overly comfortable, Scandinavian Liberista… regarding his rekolektions of a famous writer lady, from my home town: who supported and cherished freedom.

 
This morning, I watched a young reporter woman on tv. She is known to me as someone who was a few years ahead of my oldest kids at the same primary school. She has, for years now been seen by me, with a weird sense of pride, reporting for overseas news stations from some of the wildest scenes we have experienced during the past eight or nine years, all over the world: Wars, massacres, floods and catastrophes.

 
Today she was in her home town, where I live; reporting from a part of the city, in which, until only a short while ago I was taking classes. I have seen this courageous young lady in many front lines, as a hugely respected reporter. I have never until today heard her admit her unease… standing in a city street, her hometown, in the ruins of previously productive stores and shopping precincts … Scenes that I have seen her filming in East Ukraine, for instance… Now covering city scenes more reminiscent of the Bahamas, presently recovering from a ‘tsunami’ storm called Dorian that ran across an island… only this tsunami in Jozi’s eastern suburbs was a human one. She spoke of our streets, oozing with terror for all who walk it, not only those deemed “foreigners”.

 
The unspoken horror was, that where she was filming, was only one of many different sites… some a few blocks from my home; in a number of our cities: where the week has been a hell for foreign owned businesses.

 
IN retrospect I had to consider the unthinkable. That while listening, earlier in the week, with difficulty to the huskily whispered speech of the visiting dignitary foreigner I could reasonably assume that, for all I know, the visiting foreign speaker was deeply anxious about what he was to say, and that, perhaps the sound was down so low: because he didn’t want to inadvertently incur rage… from a place he had always admired as a:

 
Tireless
SupporterOf
LiberationOfLandFromA
PartHeitDispossessionNow
Burning….

 
So I am now watching someone reporting for a global news station, who I know to be native to our city, confessing unprecedented unease at the random, almost inchoate violence, targeted seemingly, at specific, emigrant groupings: that has erupted like an orchestrated wildfire: simultaneously all over the country, almost out of no-where.

 
What is being called Xenophobik violence is being reported on every global station; and has terrified other foreigners, to such an extent that the lady reporter went out of her way to repeat a few times, an advisory notifying terrified victims of the violence, that Nigerian aircraft [for instance] were standing by to airlift them home to safety.

 
This admonition from Monday’s speaker rang in my ears: –

DoNot
ForgetKomrades
MakingSenseAgainOf
LifeAfterLiberationBrought
SmallChange.

 
So in a supreme period of irony… One of the victims interviewed by the International reporter, was an economic refugee from the liberated place run by the [now] late ‘BoBTheRoz’ Mugabe: liberator of and later destroyer incarnate, of the failed state called Zimbabwe.

 

Bob died, unlamented by millions this week. Here the young economic refugee’s place of employment, burned to the ground, along with the apartment that had housed all her scarce belongings also gone. All done by those who had been liberated here: twenty five years ago.

 
I listened to her broken hearted, shocked traumatised explanation of her new plight; and I heard again, our liberationista visitor from Scandinavia, remonstrating about unwanted outcomes with whispered politeness and

 
WithAn
AirOfPainfrom
AnAgeOfStrainAtThe
LackOfGainAndTheSearedOutcomes
PostReign.

 
And then on top of all of this; Women’s month being over, it was back to femicide with a rush. BY Friday the Twitteratti were all agitation… Where is our man… Our President hiding away they all did say; while seemingly the country was burning; a stream of young women were, and are, being brutally raped, shot down, stabbed and murdered … One a national young boxing champion; another a teenage CapeTown U’ student, in a post office nogal, where she had gone to collect mail.

 
Nene, the teenage student was raped and butchered by a psychotic post office worker, who beat the young lady to death with an office scale because she refused to hand over her vagina…

 
And our new seemingly paralysed or reluctant apparently national President is no-where to be seen as: –

 
MobsRule

 

CR
SevenTeenWon
AnElektionAndCho
SenNewBossNowHidesAwayFrom
ItAll.

 
TheyTook
TheChequeBanked
TheMoneySquanderedE
VeryCentNowAbsentwithoutLeave
OrRent.

 
Oi

 
Such a week as this… should not occur more frequently.

 
Loves ya all

 
!NiK[‘19]

Territorial Notes regarding 2136 circa AA.

Annexure
 

With reference to place names and the past.
 

Your Excellency should take note that:
 
The unfolding of these testimonies involves travel to, or reference to, a number of places in the southern part of the aforementioned Azanian Konfederacy and those that seem most important are herewith briefly described to obviate the need for description further: It being understood that all information is as presented in the kollektionof doccuments referred to as The Jonker Memorandum and those called the Testimonies together with the reference dokument referred to as Koz.
 
1. Amazulu: Kingdom of, Territory bordering eastern coastline between latitudes x and y (see map). The territory appears to encompass the Free Zone of Port Natal (sometimes also referred to as New Jaakarta). It is our understanding* that this territory was held as a free trading colony of Amazulu. Capital Ulundi. There are also indications that the first wave of Grimdonesian survivors who swept in over a newly created landbridge from the island of Grabdamasker made their way to the remaining parts of Port Natal and settled there; and then not being joined by any successors were gradually absorbed into the local populace.
 
2. Bosigo: A Mountain State with extensive arid semi desert holdings. These latter are situated on an expanse of low-lying territory eastwards to the confluence of the Orange and Bambata [previously known as Vaal] rivers, as denoted. It is centrally situated and landlocked, which limited the damage caused by the series of floods (referred to by the Enumerator and validated through archaeological records) that apparently changed the geography of the planet extensively during a period some time before these testimonies were collected.
 
Bosigo claims Tribute from the Kimberly City State and controls the headwaters to a considerable part of a dry interior especially to Zone One where it helped to nourish that region’s hydroponic farming system.
 
With its capital at Maseru it would seem to be a form of warrior/brigand State comprising 60 commune zones linked together violently when necessary through suppressive outbursts. Property rights were interpreted collectively and a highly disciplined, so-called ‘Spartan lifestyle’ was maintained. We understand this to mean that the peeple who lived there could live with little in the way of what we understand to have been important to Peeple elsewhere: a comfortable life. Notwithstanding this though Bosigo it seemed was pragmatic to the passage of trade, from which it extracted heavy tribute in the form of tolls. Govt: post- feudal/ intermittently constitutional monarchy with putative multiparty chambers of oligarchic parties.
 
New Cape Town: (NCT) City State. Legislative council based on popular vote. Formerly historically associated, variously, as a trading station and a legislative centre for hinterland associations of sublegislative regions. It was also a maritime centre with shipping facilities for peaceful and warlike purposes utilizing the vast ocean of water that gave it its reason to exist.
 
The city was completely rebuilt after it was destroyed some time before that being considered in the Testimonies. Apparently the city [and many other places] was struck by a form of extreme water movement called a “Tsunami” that seems to have emanated from a region to the southwest, from what once appears to have been a polar region.
 
NCT: Consisted of Fort Table a fortress Island, which towers over all the City’s elements: the Fjords of southern Cape Town, the extended city, called BoKaap, A region known as The Southern Peninsula and the Liberty Islands.
 
Kollektively these were known as The Cape Federation.
 
The territory extends for some two hundred kilometres* (*Kilometre: a measure of distance equal to a thousand paces made in sensory space: Kompiler) and claims suzerainty over the city-states of Graaf-Rienet and Kimberly. Bosigo and Kei (see below) repudiated these claims. The Cape Federation was also in frequent conflict with Bosigo, using its control over limited Port facilities to counteract water toll charges.
 
Kei:
 
Bordering on Amazulu and Bosigo and occupying the southeastern coastline to the Gamtoos River, where it maintained garrisons against encroachments from the Cape Federation. The latter made claims on various territories, based on historical precedents that were also disputed and of which we have no records. Capital Mtata. Government Oligarchic with strong Feudal overtones: “Good Ole Buddie” * State corporation style systems of duopolies. [* ref: KKWAN ibid p744 aka Koz]
 
Principal Regions: Port Sandile situated on the Buffalo River, Nonquaze at Algoa Bay also known as Ebaayi and also formerly known by various other names apparently was acquired from the Cape Federation after the Wars of the Acquisition* [*There is little clarity on the nature of these wars: why they happened or for what purpose, other than perhaps to be associated with water shortages. Water was a critical requirement for the survival of Peeple and was apparently in short supply.
 
We also understand that these places to which we have referred were built inland from earlier regions engulfed in the rising of the coastline following the event that leveled Old Cape Town. see earlier ref re NCT: Kompiler.]

 
Monomatapa …North of the Limpopo River, to Zambezi in north, and to the east coast. Described as a Makaranga Theocracy dominated by a leadership known as the New Roswi. Capital Harare. Principal regions: Zimbabwe, Nieue Sofala, and Victoria. Suzerainty claims over Bulawayo City State enforced through tolls on the Zambezi pipeline.
 
Bamangwato: Desert territory bordering the Newe Karolinga Republik on eastern side and encompassing all the desert regions to the western city state of Windhoek on the Namib coast. Bamangwato claims conflicting suzerainty rights against Monomatapa over the Bulawayo City State. Lost control over the Zambezi pipeline to Monomatapa during the fourth war of the Chimurenga* [similarly, to earlier references, we have limited knowledge of this event: Kompiler]. Popular assembly supports a business/ agrarian oligarchy. Capital Gabarone.
 
Newe Karolinga. An agrarian republic governed by a popular assembly, subject to theocratic control. Party list system overwhelmingly supports the Karolingan* Assembly Party who had governed the region for many, many segments of Peeple time. [ Karolingan: see below] A desolate and dirt-poor region supporting various forms of permaculture and low yield mining activities. The bulk of its citizenry survived on Basic Pay…a form of income grant, which it seems, was a right to which all citizens of the Konfederacy were entitled.
 
(NB Kompiler’s note: We understand ‘money’ to have been a medium whereby peeple could arrange exchanges between them of physical and conceptual objects that were required in order to satisfy certain survival and other needs. References are made throughout the Testimonies to this substance…money. KKKWAN refers to it as “an ephemeral substance that appears to have no constant or absolute value but by virtue of its elusive relativity. Love of the concept was described by educated commentators as the source of all evil.”)
 
Newe Karolinga was situated in a sandwich between Monomatapa, Bamangwato and Amazulu, the region was at the time of the testimonies host to many descendants of the Karolingan Krusaders, who, it seems, had undertaken an epic journey to a place called The Holy Land following great floods and the onset of frozen conditions in the northernmost regions of the planet which occurred at a time called Armageddon.
 
According to Koz* [ref: Koz: Legends of Urdos. Parallel edition Ref co-ord 763908] these particular Karolingans apparently became confused for some unclarified reason and went off course on their journey to this alleged “Holy Land”. They landed somewhere on the continental landmass of Azania and fought their way south. It seems they were armed apparently with terrible weaponry of a type never encountered before. They left nothing behind them as they moved directly south along a great river.
 
Much of the territory through which they moved was already laid waste by critical shortages of water, and many of the places where water was reasonably plentiful were equally devastated by a terrible plague that afflicted great numbers of peeple and rendered them incapable of much resistance.
 
The Karolingans kept moving although their numbers shrank considerably. A great many settled in the fertile regions of east central and south central Azania after claiming land in exchange for assisting the Azanian Konfederacy to repulse a second invasion by Grimdonesians across the landbridge linking the mainland of Azania to a former island off the east coast.

They were finally allowed free transit through Monomatapa following something called the Treaty of Victoria and finally settled in the territory that came to be known later, as Karolinga. These Karolingans as they were known were not a friendly people and were apparently fiercely addicted to a belief in a non-physical reality and governed their lives according to a ceremony known as the Klensing.
 
Zone One: The pulse of the Azanian Konfederacy. Zone one was unusual by the standards of peeple around the world. It was a city region that was not situated on a water confluence point. Apparently it came into existence to mine gold, a commodity highly prized for its intrinsic value. Later it became a trading and manufacturing region. Over time the gold was mostly gone and the region entered into a condition of seemingly terminal long-term decline.
 
According to the testimonies it [Zone One] was being used as a temporary “cash cow” * [we do not know the meaning of this term; referent sources indicate that it has something to do with easy wealth generation, Koz refers to “Rent seeking”, although we are not certain what that means.] to supplement the development of the entire Konfederacy.
 
Strategically located in the highland prarielande, also known as ‘Velde,’ of southern Azania the decline was arrested after the “Ringing” * [Kompiler’s note: the events known as the “ringing” are comprehensively described earlier.]. Foresight had seen the development of a system of solar powered towers, the ruins of which could still be seen and which curiously were laid out in a pattern reminiscent of our own star system. This as you no doubt know has given rise to numberless theories relating to prescient possibilities.
 
Various other forms of weather modifying devices were apparently built on to the towers over the years and they became a primary source of foodstocks for the citizenry. We have no samples of these.
 
Because it was a desirable place to live and many were attracted to it, residence rights in Zone one had,apparently, eventually been limited to those who had a birthright to a water supply, or who could make a large enough investment to acquire basic water rights for themselves, and any they may bring with them.
 
A “water rights market” existed to distribute possession of water rights. Entry by non-residents was moderated by their ability to purchase water rights vouchers on the rights market. All citizens had basic rights to minimal water needs. Outsiders and residents alike could trade water surpluses to facilitate intermittent visiting for business or recreation purposes. Notwithstanding this or perhaps because of the problems associated with water there was minimal movement of citizens between regions.
 
[Kompilers note: Numerous references are made throughout both the introduction to the testimonies and the testimonies themselves to events from a period called, The Past. In many cases these references are made without explanation. We are at this stage only able to speculate on what these events could have been in most instances. There are however some instances where other archaeological information lends evidence to support or supplement the limited information we have on the planet.]
 

* Note: The planetary sub-species Humanity, also known as (aka) Peeple, who form the primary subject of this document calibrated the passage of their lifetimes by conceptualising a process which they called ‘Time’. This process was itself then calibrated by various methods of chronological record using periods called centuries according to a range of referent points, amongst which we have established two, called AD and BC, which seemed to be a predominant referent for this region.
 
We are uncertain whether the term ‘Twentieth Century”, refers to the former or the latter referent although such evidence as we have gleaned tends to indicate AD. It is not certain to what these terms signify although all indicators point to a reverential figure affecting the PAST of some of the Peeple, and who provided, it seems, a start for an era. We do not believe Jordan Marak to be that reverential figure since he appears to have arrived at an end time between one age, AD, and another called AA.
 

Public Finance for the Knowledge Economy

Your Excellency.

We are advised that the information contained in this document, that itself derives from an idea originally proposed by a “Professor Tobin” and later by a “Mr Shambrook” and is presented in the Jonker Memorandum as the [so-called] ‘Shambok solution’ is beginning to get a more public airing than it has had in the [so-called] PAST.

 

It was decided by the Council when we reached this particular part of the Jonker Memorandum Podcast cyber serial, [around episode 75] that we would leave this section out of the story because of its sheer philosophic complexity; and would include it as an annexure only, for those who enjoy a puzzle.

 

The piece should therefore be read in conjunction with the reading of Episode 75. Or not: as you wish.

 

For those who are not familiar with the purpose of the chapter that will be included here as text only, we shall repeat some things we may well have said alreadyTherefore:…

 

NOTE: You are respectfully reminded that this annexure is in reality an episode from the story and so may be odd reading for those unfamiliar with the tale: given that this episode would be close to the end. That should not however deter you.

 

For your convenience the text follows below under the heading: ‘Taxing transactions in the Knowledge economy”.

Taxing transactions in the knowledge economy

By way of Introduction.
 
Your Excellency will note:
 

As previously mentioned, When we reached this part of the Jonker Memorandum Podcast cyber serial, we decided that we would leave this section out of the story because of its sheer philosophic complexity; and would only include it as an annexure for those who enjoy a puzzle.
 

The piece should be read in conjunction with the reading of Episode 75. Or not: as you wish. Kompiler.

 

Footnote 13

The reconstruction of the Tax system.

 
It is possible that at this point some listeners/readers are beginning to wonder where this is going. After all you have hung on through many episodes of fairly intense herstory
Why? You may ask.
 
The reader will remember that a number of information-based items were found on a recent expedition to Urdos, where substantial deposits of Olivine were found and mining commenced giving rise to the discovery of the documents..
 
The reader will also remember that the items contained what have come to be known as the “Testimonies of an Enumerator”. It will also be remembered that these items represent our sole knowledge to date about what is, seemingly, to all intents and purposes, a desert planet, albeit liberally resourced with Olivine.
 
There are a number of key testimonies that reveal much about the daily life of the former inhabitants who, if the ancient legends are to be believed, may have been our ancestors. These testimonies refer to a sequence of events that apparently took place, some one hundred odd of the time cycles called years, after the series of disasters, described in the various information footnotes as “The Ringing”.
 
These [so-called], Further Testimonies, apparently follow on from this story of a so-called ‘Revolution’ effected by the person known only as Korinth Starr [the elder].
 
The detail of the critical changes made by her provides a point of reference against which we can evaluate some of the contextual elements of both the Yonka Memorandum [aka Jonker Memorandum] and the later Juno Konspiracy [which follows on from this presentation].
 
Respectfully yours:
Kontributor.
The story continues…
 
The Testimonies of an Enumerator: Starr the elder.
 
“Taxation of earnings from labour
is on a par with forced labour.”
Robert Nozik: Anarchy, State and Utopia

 
“Taxing people’s labour and the fruit of that labour creates a moral flaw at the profoundest heart of modern society.”

 
This was the basis of Starr’s opening address to the reconvened parliament that gathered at new temporary headquarters at Kallaters Estate, Midtown in Zone 1 in February of 2017.
 
Given the nature of the disaster, and the loss of life following the catastrophe of 10/1 [known in offshore territories as 1/10: ie 10th day of 1st so-called “month”. ]
there were a surprisingly large number of members present. It was eventually admitted by all the parties that they had made up their numbers in accordance with their pre-disaster allocation. Since the now deceased members were, for the most part, faceless when around, few had noticed the differences.
 

This was okay, they all agreed, although some in the media took the usual contrarian positions, now that things were beginning to come back to normal. There were calls for a new election but the solidarity of all the parties at the reconvened parliament was to forge ahead in a spirit of multipartisan agreement and not waste time with petty squabbling. For all anyone knew, disaster might strike again at any moment.
 

Starr’s announcement that she had decided to abolish the [then] present tax system had electrified the nation, caused consternation on top of catastrophe, and, a general lift in morale. The morale hopped about a bit when she told them she wasn’t actually abolishing tax per se, just radicalising the way in which it was to be collected. (“Tax remained inevitable and certain.” She said at a press conference days after the “Sjambok solution” story hit the press and hysteria resulted).
 
She was going to replace most forms of taxation with a micro-levy to be charged to every transaction passing through the national payments system.
 
The idea that she was going to keep the tax system in a different form created instant anxiety, because people instinctively distrusted the intentions of their political bosses. Headlines in the media predominated around the cliché about a so-called “thin edge of the wedge”. This meant it was automatically assumed that once Starr began shaving a tiny percentage ‘levy’ off every transaction taking place in the banking system rather than taking a huge bite out of everyone’s pay every month, the shaving would gradually become a bigger and bigger one, until the State owned all the money and turned all citizens into the slaves of some emerging despot. There were a wave of knee-jerk headline responses to the effect that the State now owned all the citizens. “So much for freedom”, some shouted.
 
There was certainly something of the despot about Starr. If she didn’t get her way everyone felt her wrath… She was, a “Diva de luxe”* screamed the Sun. [we are uncertain of the meaning of this term: K]
 
“The core action, of our present tax collection system,” She said, “is the confiscation of wealth without option, and therefore all persons in pursuit of wealth have to become dishonest to keep their own money.
 
This pollutes the State’s moral certitude at the most elementary core of its being.”She continued. “We have always regarded it as inevitable. This doesn’t mean we cannot review the manner of its collection, as the technology permits.”
 
Both parties: the private sector that owns the money, and the public sector that disburses collections in order to manage the affairs deemed appropriate to the State by the citizen, will jointly manage control of the collection instrument, with safeguards against misappropriation by any party.
 
This was unheard of. No one had ever made such a statement in parliament before… The House became quieter than had become customary.
She ignored their expectancy and continued with her prepared speech:
 
“We have been able to observe empirically now, over some three decades since the time of the “Velvet revolutions*”, that citizens who are free to spend their own money are more generally creative at generating further wealth than the State is. We have not always been prepared to concede that because it would be contrary to our vested interests as regulators.” The house was discomfited.
 
Because the citizen is more creative than we are prepared to concede then we must accept the following position. Due to the nature of current tax collection policy, and its rationalisation, together with its implementation, the State either over or under performs according to the perceived benefit of the tax collecting system to the participants. Part of the purpose of the current philosophy is to redirect wealth from those who create it to those who consume it. This is often confused with the idea of taking from the rich to give to the poor.
 
[*Velvet Revolutions: According to Koz this term refers to a series of popular revolts against State control in certain parts of the planet, some period of time prior to the great floods referred to throughout here. K.n.]
 
“However,” she paused and dropped her voice for maximum dramatic effect, “if we are to be brutally frank… the taking from the rich and giving to the poor has only shifted the nature of the rich, Her voice now rose to a crescendo. And done little to alleviate the condition of the poor.
 
Fortunately we have a tool available today, that allows us to directly inform the citizen and equally directly provide relief directly to that person, and by this I refer to the power of electronic transfer.
 
The house shifted uncomfortably. It was well known that most, if not all the members were baffled by technology. “We have to bypass the middlepersons;” she continued, “those barriers we have ourselves erected to service the wealth we confiscate and impede its journey to those who need it most: the poor, and thereby prevents the growth we seek: by default.
 
On the other hand” She raised her voice against the murmuring of confusion. “Too many citizens never achieve fulfilment because the notion of forced labour implied by confiscatory taxes on the fruit of allegedly voluntary labour, militates against effort. We cannot afford this loss of effort.”
 
“What!” someone had interjected.
 
She continued to say that in effect: in a world in which the basic instrument of State finance is inherently oppressive, the State itself could never achieve the ultimate democratic ideal, of living in a rights based society, in which the overwhelming bulk of the citizenry lived in collective harmony.
 
This could never be achieved, she thundered. Worse, she said, it provided a basis for the corrupting of State officials and breeding a class of citizen who entered public service for purposes of self-aggrandisement rather than serving particular needs in society.
 
Anxiety took root. Sinecures seemed under threat: were under threat.
Rumours of prospective ‘hits’ against her life circulated.
 
At the same time there had always been considered to be no other way for the State to get the money, than by simply confiscating it from the citizen’s earnings.
 
Convention dictated that the State needed the money, in order to effect democratically agreed policy objectives: like social upliftment and the controversially defined “redistribution of wealth,” which, along with some outstanding land claims dating back to the 20th century, mostly related to the distribution of basic pay.
 
Basic Pay you will remember was the system introduced by Starr and had over time come to work most effectively, having had a stabilising influence on society.
 
However its effect was now well discounted, the anticipated surge in productive effort believed to lie in wait for those thus disbursed had not materialised and so the cost was rising and a way of accounting for it needed to be found.
 
In effect a way had to be found to boost overall output by a much-needed six to ten percent. This holiest of grails had never yet been achieved over the preceding decades, and each year the financial writers postulated that it may happen “soon”. And each year it didn’t, for plausible reasons that most forgot instantly.
 
It also didn’t help that the State power utility began to run out of constant energy supplies by the late part of the decade prior to her accession; with difficulties in the water supply following soon afterwards. Partly this was due to maladministration and partly to the general looting of random fixed metallic resources by desperate scrap metal scavengers:power lines, cables, structures… fixtures: whatever.
 
One way, it was held, to boost overall output, was to divest the State of much of those things that the State did, to competing private sector entities: to deregulate the economy, in effect. Plus there was the truth that in places where the State had divested itself, the outcome had been less than satisfactory as new oligarchs arrived to cream off the fat of society, and the benefits to society proved to be illusory or of short duration.
 
There was overwhelming evidence favouring this course of action but curiously for Mzanzi all efforts to streamline and liberalise the economy had somehow had a contrarian effect, much to do, some said, with an excess of rules and procedures.
 
The sub-text of economic regulation was the elimination of the so- called ‘fly-by-nights’. These were entities that violated the rights of ignorant workers by embarking on ventures for which they were less than well equipped. They were as it was said: daring to BE.
 
Routinely most burned out.
 
The more the regulations, the more the cost of doing business, the more they burned out, leaving only powerful oligopolies in their wakes.
 
Eventually the supply of new surviving ventures simply ceased. This was not surprising to any in the commercial classes, albeit it puzzled the regulators: and the officially approved commentators. Political figures that were in denial about the reasons for the decline in employment opportunities bewailed the death of new employment opportunities and called for “Job Creation” with the same unawareness of inconsistency, or what was termed ‘moral ambiguity’ as were those moral re-armament politicians who had, in earlier ages, called for the making of babies.
 
They could not accept that ‘jobs’ had been legislated out of existence by a century of allegedly ‘irrational’ [the majority called it rational], anti-competitive rules. And this had left the economic environment dominated by self-serving oligarchic structures that inevitably crowded out employment.
 
Furthermore, the confiscation of the wealth of those who had it (whether via productive effort or good fortune or … ) in order to give it to poor and hungry citizens, had the effect only of breeding a middle bureaucratic layer in society, who fed comfortably off the proceeds.
 
The poor and hungry tended for the most part to grow, or at best stabilise at statistically acceptable levels [there were apparently some exceptions but as we know an exception does not disprove a rule. K.]. It was also empirically obvious that the middle bureaucratic layer had a vested interest in the maintenance of the system, and that solving the problem of the poor and hungry and unemployed, could render them [the middle bureaucratic layer] unnecessary and hence also unemployed.
 
There were many who remembered with horror the ending of the age-old “Struggle” for democracy in Mzansi, which left many without income support when the change came. There was a jockeying about process for years afterwards as different “Struggle” heroes [and anti-heroes] searched out the most comfortable post-struggle sinecures.
 
One of life’s most important rules, they would say, was to find the most comfortable means of survival possible at any time. Morality, if there was any, was satisfied at the tax gate. “I pay tax, why should I give a bone about the poor and the hungry… go eat my tax!”
 
And of course for all of known time there had been no routinely effective alternative to the confiscation known as ‘tax’. Even its most hardened critics had to concede that this fundamental violation of citizen rights was arbitrary yet necessary. It was rather in the same class of violation as the compulsory “schooling*” of children.
 
However just because something has become habitual that doesn’t mean it is either right or the only way, especially in a world where technological advancement creates the opportunity to change some of the mechanisms of society and effect a moral transformation in the process.
 
[*“Schooling”: Children were Peepil in a pre-cognitive state. Since they were not particularly useful, they were forced into places at a young age where all their natural curiosity was squeezed out of them; and gradually replaced with a glossfully useful patter of day-to-day routine behaviours, dedicated to the performance, or non-performance, of socially useful activities when they “grew up”. Ref: – Koz Ibid P742]
 
“The children received a ten- year compulsory “prison” sentence [without the option of having committed a crime], during which they were force fed a whole load of information that gradually turned many into arguably useful and productive citizens. The entire process had many flaws but it served a socially useful function; and because the children’s rights were being inherently violated, punishing transgression was, almost, proscribed. This largely referred to an era before selectively programmed new humans were produced in so-called “baby factories” [see Koz ibid page 42-47] K.]
 
So, Starr said, she had come to see this truth in respect of Tax. She had discovered what the press called the ‘Sjambok solution’ and what ‘Mr Sjambok’ himself called something else.
 
“If Peepil were simple complexities what was the purpose of the State?” She asked the gathered assembly and the extended television audience beyond, most of whom had no idea what she was talking about.
 
“If the State was the extension of the Peepil then did not the technology of the present permit the return to direct democracy as practiced by the ancient Villages*”. [We do not know what these “Villages” means and assume it, for the present, to reflect a romantic vision of an earlier era that may or may not have existed. Kontributor.]
 
The Sunday Lines, a journal popular at the time, observed later of Starr that, like Erhardt before her, she had been the right person at the right moment.
They [The Sunday Lines] quoted an economist called Hayek who had commented: [about Erhardt] “The whole economic problem is really a problem of utilizing widely dispersed knowledge which nobody possesses as a whole…. It was a lucky moment when the right person in the right spot was free to do what he (sic) thought right, notwithstanding that he (sic) could never have convinced anybody else that it was the right thing”. F. Hayek.
 
It was certainly true that Starr’s actions were completely out of character for an age, when even if the newly democratised leaders of States had foregone their traditional right to abuse their citizens* [previously known as subjects, because they were subject to the whims and fancies of megalomaniacal leaderships, of varied ideological persuasions.] in many thousands of ways, then a vague shadowy ‘system’ had come into existence.
 
The “system” comprised invisible networks of co-existing vested interest contexts and mutual support structures, propped up by tax disbursements, all facilitating the ability of the well connected to prosper at the expense of the working masses and the unemployed remainder.
 
As Peepil became better educated in Mzanzi over the decades since the original liberation, a brooding cynicism had set in. A sense that everyone had (Including the politicians strangely enough) that no matter what was promised the outcome never varied, the benefit always seemed elsewhere and Peepil remained dissatisfied.
 
Starr had affected a real revolution in many ways. She had set up programmes to advance her gender in all spheres of life, intruding on previously sacred cows. She had passed rules stating that every business had to hire representative, demographically defined members of the penetratee gender, irrespective of merit (although presumably the most meretricious of the applicants for the gender niche being filled).

 
Nonetheless years after her accession and notwithstanding the inroads resulting from the anti-rape arrests and the fact that the convicted rapists (and sometimes those only accused) vanished into a vast Virtuality game indefinitely, and notwithstanding all the other advances accompanying the transition, transformation eluded the State.
 
There were daily complaints about the ongoing dominance of the Penetrator gender in positions of authority and the daily tabloids [as small scale widely dispersed newssheets were called, pre- obsolescence: K ref: – Koz P41.] still produced a mind numbing daily litany of death by murder, mayhem, accident and machete wielding hackage, before the era of personalised newscasts made that receipt optional.
 
The critics held that too much of this still represented inter-gender violence notwithstanding that the penalties for violence against penetratees had become more and more onerous. However thanks to the effects of the life activators, compounded with the shift made in the burden of proof, in rape accusations, this daily litany was slowly moving into slower motion, so while still unacceptable, the levels of anti-penetratee violence were, by the time of the disaster, down to about twenty percent of its pre-Starr condition.
 
[According to the Enumerator the notes that follow here, represent some of the key arguments prepared by Starr for her parliamentary presentation justifying her decision to abolish a huge battery of choking legislation; and to change the mode of collecting the revenues required by the State to run the affairs of State to the ‘sjambok’, TEAL system.
 
These notes have no linkages and so we do not know whether they formed part of the debate, which apparently raged for some weeks, or whether they represent her own line of presentation, or perhaps, were no more than jottings from her notebook.
 
It is possible that part of the collection represent random presentations by opposition speakers as well. We simply have no record of who said what, or even who the various quoted Peepil were.
The enumerator has simply presented a batch of some twenty or more thoughts or possibly even, quotations relevant to the decision to alter the fundamental precepts underpinning the society of the day. According to our analysis of the evidence presented in the later testimonies, which take, place variously, a century or so apart: earlier and later. In these, the place called, Zone One, is revealed as a relatively prosperous region in a generally dysfunctional world.
 
This relatively dysfunctional world is however underpinned by a mindset that does seem to reflect the ongoing existence of Starr’s reforms. K.]

 
Vague thoughts of Nozik, and others, in a reconvened House.
“There is no central distribution, no
person or group entitled to
control all the resources, jointly deciding how
they are to be doled out.”
 
Is an injustice, done to someone who’s holding was itself, based upon an unrectified injustice, just?
How far back must one go in wiping clean the historical slate of injustice?”
 
What is what we want? This idealised
process
against which we measure the anticipated changes in our day to day,
day
or is it simpler to seek retribution.
 
There were no rules that said you could not
Redesign the tax system so that the money you needed came from elsewhere? Or were there? It was after all the citizen’s money and the system within which the money flowed was
also the property of independent citizens or as citizens operating as Korporatised Kolektives…
 

Take their money instead, as a fee
payable to the State for a random set of benefits,
some of which are usable at different times, by different citizens, for different reasons.
 

Deal with Ownership:
and the tax in its present form is theft by stealth, often.
And the benefits were progressively
disproportionate to the losses.…
 

Reprogramme the society so that the citizens right to a direct say in the process is affirmed…. and balanced.
 
A voter direct system adds to the traditional representative who evaluates and is technically the party person.
And then the issue then: as now
Does the party who’s members are not elected, but rather appointed: and are yet apparently independent notwithstanding, benefit from a direct vote?
 

Consider this thought she said. The principle of fairness (Herbert Hall restated by John Rawls)
 
“When a number of persons engage in a just, mutually advantageous cooperative venture according to rules, and thus restrain their liberty in ways necessary to yield advantages for all; those who have submitted to those restrictions have a right to similar acquiescence on the part of those who have benefited from their submission.”
 

Liberate the citizen from the oppressive rules that bind their energy.
 

The de facto monopoly of affirmed citizens occurs by an ‘invisible hand’ process.
To each according to how much s/he (sic) benefits others, who have the resources for benefiting those who benefit them…In a free society there will be distribution in accordance with value rather than moral merit: i.e. in accordance with the perceived benefits given to others…To each according to how much they benefit others who have the resources for benefiting those who benefit them:” Restating Hayek. F. She concluded.
 

This (says Nozik) will seem arbitrary unless some initial set of holdings is specified, or unless it is held that the operation of the system over time washes out any significant effects from the initial set of holdings.
 

Nozik Slogan: “ From each as they choose to each as they are chosen.”
 

“No end-state principle or distributional patterned principle of justice can be continuously realised without continuous interference in people’s lives.”
 

The meta- reason of reasons for our addiction to non- performance

 

Our addiction to going round in circles when a straight line is obvious presupposes that we can see ourselves as others do and we cant…. and in our rage we return again to what fires us.
 
“The individual cannot fraudulently keep what is its own property to start with.”
“The income tax cannot work without the violation of elementary civil rights. If that is so: then it is further proof of why the income tax must be abolished” George Reisman
 
Deficits, it should be recalled deprive the economic system of the benefit of that portion of the supply of savings that must be used to finance the deficit.” Reisman
 
The idea of dealing with “limitless liquidity preference” to rationalise the theft of a citizen’s wealth in the form of progressive taxation is undoubtedly erroneous, and has never been subjected to empirical testing: It has been a ‘given’ accompanying the control of the State by the tyranny of the allegedly democratic majority. If only because all governments practice it.”
 

It is however notable that those countries where the ultimately embourgoising of the significant majority has forced tax reduction from outright to partial theft have been the places where economic performance outstripped the high tax regime economies.
 

“The rate of interest is NOT the Price of money and cannot be permanently reduced let alone eliminated.”
 

If it is NOT the price of money then what is it?
 
Is it the ratio defining the relationship between the demand for and the supply of money?
 
Is it an artificial arbiter defining the desired level of economic activity?
 
It measures three things: time preference, money flow, and risk. It is subject to arbitrary adjustment when the key element of interest rates, The Premium for risk is fixable: and not responsive to the market.
 

A true flat tax rate would be honest, and because it would be honest then it would not act to corrupt the society at its core.
 

What are ‘good tax’ criteria: “low administration costs, economic effects, fairness or equity”. Dwight Lee
 

“It is more important what government does and how it does it than the percentage of GDP it taxes and spends.” F Hayek.
 
A man (sic) has a right to freedom of contract….
 
So does a man (sic) acquire a right to income that he has himself created? …NO. He acquires a right not to the “Income” but to the property that he (sic) creates, with that income. The simpler a truth the better.” Murray Rothbard.
 

“ Distribution is just if it arises from another just distribution by legitimate means.”
“Rights based or derived from unjust distribution in the past cannot be made right by decree unless everyone disadvantaged by the past injustice agrees to forego their entitlement to redistributive justice.”
 
Since this is unlikely to occur then it must be concluded that some entitlement process must be initiated to rectify the imbalances of the past.
 

However what happens if the patterning of past injustices follows some ‘natural’ laws that permit [due to the mechanism of a free market] the likely probability that the bulk of resources will once again come to be held by the few to the disadvantage of the many…Does one have to continuously interfere in the workings of society to rectify this …and the answer was the Progressive tax system: whereby those prone to earn more money due to superior skills, connections or levels of cunning, greed or generally acquisitive nastiness, shall pay a proportionately higher rate of tax than their less-advantaged peers.
 

What then happens is that this same progressive system of taxing, forces citizens who are financially disadvantaged albeit technically skilled to use borrowed capital. This must be done in order to overcome the disadvantages inherent in having that part of their disposable income, which could have been saved as their own capital (or used for their own advancement), confiscated by the State in the form of [so-called] Progressive [?] tax. The unintended effect of progressive tax is to prevent upward mobility.
 
Can it still be unintended after a century of empirical evidence?
 
There are two disadvantages to progressive tax: the opportunity cost of dissaving to the individual that must lose its savings to tax, and the volatile cost of borrowing that places the security of the individual at risk when the perceived cost of money changes constantly and unexpectedly in the wake of changes in the economic environment, often thus rendering the taxpayer most liable at the most vulnerable moment.
 
The idea of rights presupposes some things, which needs to be questioned anew.
 
First, is the premise that redistribution of earnings is the only way to solve the problem of inequality of opportunity.
 
This idea has been attempted for a century and ended in disaster; as the redistributionist philosophy took all the useful energy in the form of citizen’s initiative, and redistributed it inadequately and subject to malign leakage, and was ultimately punished as the Systems that took less, incrementally advanced at a superior rate, with the effect that they out competed the less efficient Systems.
 

This did not of course mean that the inherent idea of fairness embodied by the redistributionist strategy was an error: simply that the means to redistribute were inadequately evaluated or were perhaps the only ones obviously available.
 
What about the moral rights that we have created? …The right to some form of redistributive justice…to rectify the wrongs of the past. That which was built on wrongfulness cannot be recompensed, it must be gutted…this is the Shylock dilemma…How do I take my pound of flesh without dropping any blood…. Yes entitlement without death to the giver…can it bring life to the recipient…there are no skills to be transferred.
 

Can I take the contents of my head and shift that knowledge into yours? No the skill is grafted to experience and desire and incentive.
 

Put ten people in the same room each: has its own predetermined ceiling, the nature of which is not apparent to most of the ten. Assume one at each end; one repressed beyond belief, the other irrepressible.
 

Between these are confused people with their own ceilings…
Mix into this, poor incentives and there will as a result be almost no takers…
Don’t forget risk aversion…
 
Why take the risk of being in business when the advantages of not being in business are so apparent.
What are the alternatives to being in business…
Being self- employed or not employed or employed badly or well?
Isn’t that all the same thing?
Self-employed by this definition means scratching at the surface movement of the economy…
Scraping off enough action to cover desired life expenses and perhaps create a surplus…
And do it long enough to sustain the next round of descendents.
 

And so the debate raged on.
 
Starr summarised. It [the debate] was nonetheless overlaid by a reality that the State needed to maintain an income stream, and while we nominally accept that the monetary system is technically the property of the private sector and the reserve bank, and that it is therefore “… not available for looting.” as an outraged governor had once shrieked in a moment of apoplexy; it [the income stream] nonetheless exists because the State that supports it exists, and it is therefore dependent on the continued existence of the effective State, in order that it be nourished…Nonetheless the point is taken and remedies need to be established.
 

In part this was an action dictated by necessity. The loss of life and resources resulting from the disaster [of 10/1] nearly bankrupted the country and the wider planet. Coming five years after, and on top of, the earlier disaster of 23/12, it proved a stunning blow for the planet’s Peepil and vast numbers simply succumbed to waves of violence and social disintegration. [It has not been noted before that the disaster of 10/1 affected the entire planet in one or other way, for notwithstanding that its effects were largely limited to the Southern Hemisphere (as this particular hemisphere of the planet was known) it compounded with the damage to the North caused by 23/12 much of which was struggling with reconstruction. Ed. Ref:- Koz P2-9] Virulent versions of the Plagues swept around the planet fuelled by massive daily movement of Peepil all over the world* (*as the planet was also called in pre- multiverse thought mode). The various regions of the world retreated behind their “firewalls” and communication between the regions was via electronic interface
 
One non-electronic outcome was a series of migratory invasions known as the “New Krusades”, whereby armies of zealots met in a fiery confrontation in a series of violent exchanges referred to as the Apocalypse.
 
[Kontributor: Little is known of these movements or of what happened to the destination of most of the movements. As we understand it, and as we have mentioned before, this alleged Apocalypse was apparently prompted by defence of some region of the world regarded as having a particular referential: historical or metaphysical, significance. For reasons that are unclear a series of massive explosions appear to have largely reduced large parts of the planetary region to an uninhabitable place. What survivors there were have left few records.]
 
The State all but collapses under the trauma of a disaster such as no living being had ever experienced or conceived of.
 

Miraculously, the entire inland infrastructure remained intact notwithstanding the loss of port facilities on the Southeastern coastline. Starr has to go back to basics, she makes a decision that she could never have made had she consulted with anyone other than already mentioned range of philosophers. She did what she thought right and she acted unilaterally…
 

Afterwards there were recriminations; afterwards there were also negotiations. She had done something that had been denied previously.
 
We spend our whole time locked up in our heads, no wonder we’re all crazy
Then we attempt, pathetically, to communicate with other people who are locked inside their own gaol and are amazed when we find out how indescribably complex we all really are.
 
We discover that we are not a pleasant species, cannot afford to be really, we need to be nasty to survive: dealing always with the voice inside us.
 
So once Starr had renegotiated the tax flow and liberated the citizen to spend their entire earnings less expenses on whims of their own choosing, the citizens of Mzanzi entered the era of direct democracy in much the same way as prompted the workings of the popular Reality TV shows that dominated daytime viewing in much of the advanced world….
 
To be continued

Poetry of the Jonker Memorandum

Jonker Memorandum PoetryDirect Poetry from the Jonker Memorandum.

Comment.

The Jonker Memorandum is, as stated elsewhere, an Allegoric prose poem: meaning that the prose part is written using poetic forms and patterns. And much is prefixed by a piece of [so-called] ‘poetry’. The pieces that follow and are called by me ‘Direct’ are, essentially, the punctuation dotted throughout the tale: as a form of ‘Brechtian’ introduction.

Regarding the pieces contained herein; #6 & #39 are attributed to the poet/philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche with thanks, and are from the script for my performance of that Poet’s work at the Centenary Nietzsche Conference: Pretoria University in 2000. The script was in part derived from the Portable Nietzsche. Viking edition: 1954: Edited by Walter Kaufman.

Other pieces elsewhere may contain words in quotation marks because the words are not mine, but borrowed albeit not attributed because I’ve forgotten from where they were absorbed.

Each piece [other than the two referred to above] is attributed to !NiK [being aka Nicholas Jakari]. [Btw: the ! is a San sign: not a common or garden exclamation mark… Rather it represents the San ‘Click’ sound, and is a symbol for my return in 1994 [referred to elsewhere].

The numbers in Brackets after ! [00] for instance, identify the year in which the piece was composed. In some cases the designation inside the brackets is simply [JM] meaning the piece was specifically written for the place where it was used, when it was written somewhere between 1994 and 2010 when the text was complete or 2014 when the Podcast series was finished.

The name of the Story, the Jonker Memorandum, based on a tale told to the writer in a random barroom conversation by an equally random, aging drunk Afrikaner man in a downtown bar, is to honour the poet Ingrid Jonker who took her life in despair: never believing that a world such as this represented by the tale was actually possible and: nonetheless wrote words that moved souls.


1. The Enumerator’s summary.

The poor and the weak,
The strong and the meek
Were led like lambs to the
Reconstruction yards
Down
A long steel slide
Suspended in deepest space.


The frail and all those of indecisive
Disposition
Were driven to a new edge; the ledge
At the end of the universe
Fell off
And were encountered
No more…
!NiK[‘94]


2. The State of the Nation.

I listened to our leader’s State of the Nation
Speech and couldn’t understand it
I read the critic’s review that
Said the
Citizens of
“Manenbug, Harrismith, Diepsloot, Hanover Park,
Phomolong and Crossroads
Couldn’t
Understand the speech either
And although I knew none of those
Places
I felt empowered: knowing none of us knew:
And that our president’s secret
Was safe….
!NiK[‘98]


3. Cooking Turtles: Part One.


From “A Bundle of thoughts`’.
Off an old, Long Playing Record… now broken, and lost.

Cooking Turtles is a slow process of
Heating up the water
From cold and there
Will be a part
Where the creature becomes wonderfully
Invigorated.
Later when the water is boiling
The turtle is unaware that it has died: for
It had stopped
Living
Earlier.
!NiK[‘98]


4. Notes off a wall inside a police station.


Bear in mind
The destruKtive konsequences
Of unrestrained self-interest
On a simple of
Unsophisicates
No!
No?


No – a simple of sophisticates,
Surely?
And
As they say:


“A bullet in the spine
Will
Change your life”.
!NiK[05]


5 What happens when the Juggler
loses its footing



Kri-o-genia + Her n Me n Then


A break of light
Against the wall
Reveals the bar
‘tween me n you.


And here to keep me from you
A cross to bar the night;
To share the quiet solemnity: of
Our unimagined hope, held tight.


Beyond the squares
The bare fleshed veins
Etch out
Nature’s child
Stark with naked pain
And stroked with evening’s chill.


A howl across the darkness
Of a moment
Echoes off the barren seeds
Marked out by season’s change.


Now is the time
When warmth has gone
Our peace
Is held restricted
To the square yard of our minds.
!NiK[‘78]


6. Hyperconsciousness & Freidrich Nietzsche.


“Could you create a god? Then
Do not speak to me of any gods. But you
Could well create the Overman.
Perhaps not yourselves my brothers
But unto fathers
And forefathers
Of the overman.


You could re-create yourselves:
And let this
Be your best creation.”


Thus Spake Zarathustra
Nietzsche


7. Probable Possibility.


Was the core of reality
Really a place
Without light:
A howling soup of uncertainty
Without konstrukt or meaning?


So much for probability.
!NiK[00]


8 We’ve changed time.


We’ve changed time,
He said.


I’ll fight the rules
I will not succumb.


We do more in a day
Than our forefathers
Kould konsider


I’ll fight the changing
Of the rules
I will not succumb.


Doing in a week
I will not succumb


What our ancestors did
Perhaps
In a lifetime.


So we have compressed time
And burned out our ability
To keep up,
She chirped.


I’ll fight. I wont succumb…
I will not succumb.


Yes we have changed time
We’ve also sold off
Most of it
He concluded caustically.
!NiK[07]


9. Systematizing parody

Do we systematize
Our everyday parodies
About the changing
Of time
To suit a vengeful purpose
That we allocated to
Our
Alphaman… to our
Alphapersons
!NiK[02]



10. A


Shall we take a
little walkie
said the spider
to the fly…


The walkies are behind
Us
And I hope that
We don’t die.
!NiK[03]


11 Loadshedding: voices in the dark.



How do we make it rain?
We water the garden
Wash the car.


We wash the car
We wash the car
We wash the car
For Korinth Starr.
!NiK[JM]


12 The rain arrived


The rain arrived first
Before the lights came on.


When power goes
We have to talk to each other
Again.
And deal with truth…
Deal with silence.


The multiverse punishes us
Then
For intemperate acts
And also presents us
With
The opportunity
To
Experience
Disappointment.


Driven only by the
Certainty
That we rule
And to continue
Is to rule
On.
!NiK[JM]


13. Those who konstrukt rules.


I met a man who said he
Had been drinking with me
All night
But that the bottle was still full.


I met a gambler in denial
Who said he couldn’t
Remember
Drinking Bell’s
Or even why he gambled.


It’s the little things
He said
That gradually pisses you off
About a place:
The soap that you don’t
Find in the
Bathroom; the sun blinding your eyes as you
Drive east in
The morning
The fool who drives to the
Corner at
The edge
And waits there
To be fetched.
And the ambitious
Who block the road
With their egos.

Most of all it’s the issue
Of chairs
And how they should
Be
Placed.
!NiK[JM]


14. From the Testimonies


Whatever you do
To the web of life
Shall be returned to you
Twicefold.
And shall through all your lives.


The book of Shadrack: Navaho section.


So the Navaho say
Whatever you do
To the web
Of life
Will come back to
You.


Is that the same as fate?
Is that why we cannot
Wait
To be
Late.


The web of life is, it
Seems,
To be
Our
Tangled levy.
!NiK[JM]


15. Rape: The genocidal Crime.

< /br> Variations on some lines in the Jozi “Star” newspaper.
Wed 18/4/2012



“A crime that shames us all.”


It’s the crime of shame
And it is here to stay
Seven rapes per man
In a single day
Violently taken
In only one way.


“The tip of it all”
They lasciviously say,
To an ‘Ysberg of rape’
Oh yay…
Oh yay…


Deep down inside
A penetrating ray
Thrusting up, up, up:
Through the curds and the whey.
Rape… oh rape… a girl child a day
Rape, rape, rape your worries away.


Oh… rape, rape, rape to show you really care
Rape away the rage at all that isn’t fair.


Shame, shame, shame.
Do not stay
It’s just a little game so
Rape
Away
Rape away?
Rape:
Away.
!NiK[‘12]

Ysberg = iceberg. Afr:

16 Destiny.


Couples parade with
Earnest enthusiasm
To the fast moving Fox –
Trot
Frantically giving new
Urgency
To otherwise
Futile purpose.
Because?
That’s what we do.
[Book of Shadrack]
!NiK[JM]


17 From the 3rd Book of Shadrack


Exploit the minds
Of those who dress
In finery
And march to the tune
Ofsomewhereelse.


While we dance amongst
The fantasies
Of our abstract
Exigencies*


Dissecting parts.
Dissecting portions.

!NiK[‘12]



*Exigencies: New Webster – intrinsic requirements or circumstantial necessities.
** Caprice: New Webster – mere fancy.


18 Inkambabeyibuza*

from: ‘The Notes of Joy’


You can be a part
Of the power
Or apart
From the power;
Parceling tradition
Or facing madness.
Never
Believing that anyone
Could believe.


So ‘Inkambabeyibuza’:
“By this scar then,
You
Shall
Remember me
And this”.
!NiK[‘08]

Inkambabeyibuza… IsiZulu. Means what it says.



19. Remembering


When we did not
Remember
To remember
What we thought
We should
Remember
We found ourselves
Unable to grasp
At straws
Or see the broken
Doors:
We found we had
Forgotten why
We chose to
Do
The things we
Chose
To
do.
!NiK[JM]


20. Return to the Virtuality game.

Don’t talk to me of ghosts
For there are none
I don’t believe this to be a rock
This is a rock
And when I am not here the rock remains
I’m sure…
Aren’t i?


Our world is
Not
A Vision
Dronkverdriet*
To which we aspire it is not the knowledge that we
Have represented to ourselves
In a form
Awaitingrearrangement.
History/Herstory/Theirstory/Ourstory:
It’sallintheblankspaces.
Is there existence if no one records it?
Are we as ephemeral as the rock?
Do we matter?
Why?
!NiK[Circa ‘06]


*Dronkverdriet: Afrikaans. Maudlin drunk.


21. Indicators

The bang on the front of
The head
The warning tremble of
Thought
That preceded it
When I walked that way
With the load.


And then… to forget: in
That same instant
To forget:
And be so brutally
Reminded.


You were told!
We warned you when you
Went this way before!
Retention rulz….
!NiK[‘12]


22. With regard to Mr. Thomas



Tremor shakes off me
With every change of way
While you react with
Panic?
And break you down
To pray?
Or do you prey?


So: you do not go fiercely
Into that good day
Tremor shakes off
You… tremor shakes
Off you
With every change
Of way…

You do react with panic
Though
And do
Break you down…
To
Pray.


Prey?
!NiK[‘12]


23. The Apocalypse came and went:
Legends of Urdos.



What if the people in the stories
In which the committed rapists lived
Were able to Emote
At some
Level
Likefishthatdailyswarm
To a feeding place:
In search of nourishment.


Does
That figment of the
Imagination
Carry with it the
Residual information
That caused it to be formed?


Is it accessible?
And so:
When people follow leaders
As shadows follow
Owners then all are blind
Following the virtuous certainties
Of faith: a deep conviction
That certainty
Is ruled by uncertainty,
Which is itself
Certain.
!NiK[04]

24. Ellis says…


“On running the Mile
there comes a point
at which the
pacemustpickup
in order that one may sprint
toward
the
finish
line
and reach it,
notwithstanding stumbles.
!NiK[JM]


25. Oram Mangosti


Should you say you
Cannot go on
Moving forward
Then perhaps
It is because
You
Are unable
To forget…


Inkambabeyibuza… by
This scar
Then
You shall
Remember
Me.
!NiK[JM]


26. The thing about the wind


The thing about the wind
Was the timing:
There was none.


As soon as you knew
Or thought you knew
You no longer
Knew


And a cycle preceded a
Cycle
Or in shortening
Became
Interspersed:
So we say
Go
Now
!NiK[JM]


27. Zen zat was ze way.

I am ze way of zen
It’s what I do
I believe every thing
And
No
Thing.


Every thing so that i
Should not
Inadvertently
Miss
The
Truth.


And No
Thing
So that I can
Understand
Certainty.
!NiK[‘08]



28. What’s in the dark.

A byte is eight bits
And a bit is a binary digit:
A zero or a one.
And this Unicode stuff?
Ah… that is a lot bigger… binary processed
Into
Hothexadecimals.
!NiK[‘00]


29. Chips in the game.


The dazzling disc called
Moon
Hid itself in plain sight
Behind a swiftly flowing veil:
Rain soaked shards
Of
Nimbus.
!NiK[JM’01]

30. Dekonstruktions


From: Random Notes….


I am beginning to grasp
At the secular nature
Of consciousness.


Is this what I mean?
Or did the message alter from
The hand
Up
To the brain or… perhaps…
Vice versa.


Did the paper change it?
Or the pen?
Or did i?
And
Why?
!NiK[JM’00]


31. Regarding Intellectuals – Guilty as Charged.

Oh vanities of intellectuals, and pride
Before a fall
Sovereignty and self-determination help
A girl
Walk tall.


Oh vanities of intellectuals, pride
Before a tumble.
Sovereign self-determinant so
A girl shouldn’t grumble.
!NiK[JM’00]

32. “All tax is theft”…


A response to a strident call from a Stakhanovite style apparatchik for “poems about the economy” made in the context of confiscatory “take it all back” tax proposals. 29/05/00



Taxes, levies, history, herstory
Computers, smartphones,
Investors, strikes, footballers
And murder: plus the concept
Of delete
Consciousness…


The world of today
Is the world of
Delete – consciousness?


Nay – I never heard of that!


Those who live today
Are not the same
As those


People who lived here yesterday
The people of today have deleted
The people of
Yesterday
From their consciousness in
Order to
Cope with today… [Podcast ends here… balance of original
should you choose i.e. it is ex-Jonker.
]


Yes in order to cope with today…

To demand of the world of today that it should pay for the
Deeds of yesterday
Is an idea that can only
Begin to work should people decide to love
A Demander today.
It is no longer enough to be loved
Then
It has to be now.

On the Dow, the product must have
Credibility,
And unspeakably sharp and acute
Marketing methods to get good attention
That attracts velvet paws
And a favourable mention.
Ok.

The idea of taxing anyone
Especially
As a form of reparation
Is a demand
That must be analysed
In the context of what happened to
Other similar taxes in the growing of the nation:
The general state of the tax inflation
Process.
The treatment of corrupt tax thieving officials
Caught, as it were, during recess:
Generally what the
Taxpayer gets after the promises have been
Deducted from the bill;
Instead of “fuck you, stand back,
I haven’t emptied the till”.


Securing invested money: that is
Securing other people’s money, honey
Extends through risk evaluation
To the limits of gradation, mixed
To bland computerized credulity
Impacts upon the premium
We have to pay
For nice clean offshore money:
Instead of dirty honey, hey
Where the Anti-Kollektive Kolektas
Karry Kalashnikovs and K….


All tax is theft. Especially those bereft and
Confiscatory deductions
Like capital gains disruptions
Those are scary to all those mary’s
Who seriously dispose with
“Other people’s” woes, by handling their cash
To demo overwhelming dash:
At the same time, with great care,
Beneath an open stare.


Investors are owners of money.
They are not politicians or something
Else funny
It may be in doubt they are human at all;
Concepts wired up
With a screen for a wall to show memory:
Spewing out models of risk
And uncertainty.
Measuring the loot of the world’s
Aging billions:
Cash that adds up to hundreds of trillions.
What you did last month doesn’t matter a jot
It’s what’s happening now that counts for the lot.


When a butterfly tumbles
And falls in Peru
The red card is flagged from computer to you. The
Risk model says the risk
Factors have altered:
That risk you took last week has now
Gone and faltered
So follow instructions: delete from the programme
That order we called
And that hold put on Put
The rate must go up
Or the cash go on out.


Perceived expectations: perceived quantum
Risk
Modified market uncertainties
Frisk
Down our hopes
Batters our fears
Causes the money to stop
And change gears.


Perennial problems perplex perceived risk.
Confusion of outcomes presents the most risk
To one who man’s mountains of money: to plan and to
Do and to follow things through to
The end:
That should always be happy.


Should this Hollywood twitch
Suffer a glitch… should heaven transform into hell
When success equals misery,
Inconsolable outrage,
Mixed in with
Anger
As
Well.
Then confusion will reign
The markets feel pain
And the cash is away before
Losseswillclaimallthegain.


In other words: in the world of money
Something is done; that is not at all funny:
A result is achieved, expected or not.
There are no relative gains
For corporate aims
But returns, as predicted.
Should results be in doubt,
Then someone with clout
Changes course,
Before loss is addictive.


When bosses complain, cash workers feel pain
And the outcome is bad for the homeowner’s loan and the girl
Who was Jill becomes Jane.


Alt.F1 delete part one: next transaction please.


!NiK[‘00]
Episode 59
This entire piece originally was used in “Random Notes”.
The introduction only the was used
in the story of the Jonker Memorandum.



33. Tear down the house.


With kompliments to R.J. Mugabe [aka Bob the
Roz] – One who kept his word.



Fragment from Lemuria.


Between the desert fathers
And the measurement problem
There remains something
About a grave
That never saw father time
Felled
Upon a leaf


A vera causa
To the very stuff of Poetry.
!NiK[JM’00]


34. Regarding a Planetary catastrophe.


Ring a ring of roses
All fall down
One-down two-down
All on to our noses.
!NiK[JM’99]


35. Open Season



We thought the storms
Came yesterday
But they came again
Today
And things are broken
And everything’s gone – again.


Where have they all
Gone mama?


Where have you all gone?
!NiK[JM’12]


36 Alldays



Running on a road to Alldays
When what happens is
Not what happens:
Searching for the things we thought
We had;
Finding things we didn’t want
Then finding … do we
Really
Know
Anything at all?
!NiK[‘10]


37. Memories of an Apocalypse


I was taking a Thai massage
When news that the
World had
Ended
Came through on the
Radio.


Go North said the
Disembodied voice
Through the static clamour
Of mass
Homicidal
Panic.


Why North? Why?
North was gone
South was too.


There are graves in
The mist
Here
Just waiting for
You.
!NiK[‘12]


38. Baobab musings

I’m neither a joiner
Nor a hand’s upper
Either
Of these
May differ
According to circum-
Stances.


But nonetheless
We will take
The journey
To its
End.
!NiK[‘07]

39. Loadshedding again.


“This life as you live it now and
have lived it you will have
to live again times
without number.”…

F. Nietzsche


40 Investigations into meat and aging
graveyards



Ageing graveyards [or are they?]
Aging graveyards.
Does it matter?


We never fear those
Whose wrath
Cannot move us
To
Terror
!NiK[JM’06]


41. Justwhenwethink….



Just when we think it’s
Time to come in from the
Dark
The light loses its
Exuberance and
We struggle to
Remember
What we want to
Remember
!NiK[JM’06]


42. Collusive coverage.


The spider has had to run for cover.
Its web was
Wantonly
Wasted when those,
Who travelled with un-
Tested hypothesis
Of broad unearned
Merit crashed
Through the
Door
Demanding arbit-
Rary affirm-
Ation.


So write us some funds
Brother Yakove
Write us some
Kind
Konsideration for the time
We had to
Wait
For
Our
Turn to bid upon
Our own
Preferential
Apportionment.


Squaring our participation with your
Grotesque
Admission.


So write us some funds
Cousin Yakove
So we can forget:
Write now.
!NiK[’13]


43. Nozik meets Starr.



According to the man
Called
Robert Nozik
Individuals have rights
And
There
Are
Things no other individual
Or group of individuals can do
To them
Without violating those rights:
Ding dong.


Does this mean? We thought,
That when we penalize
Those who exercise their
Right to rape
And to murder
That we therefore
Unnaturally oppress those persons.


Or do two rights therefore
Permit
A
Wrong?
!NiK[JM]


44. Waar der Schterre loop.


Primeval memory: – Auslaande ballad.


We are the masters of the soil
You are but its slaves.



On reading “Tilling the Soil”: – David Day



****************************
When the first settlers came here,
To this region
Those who were here already
Or claimed a hunter’s
Affinity
With the
Place
Scorned their slavery to the soil
That could
Feed them
Without toil


And so: they found it was taken
From them.


Now that they have it back
It was again
Found that
What they wanted
Was gone and
Could no longer
Subsist
For them.


They sought freedom and
Found
The cost
Of
Living.
!NiK[‘13]

45. When you are tired …


When you are
Ready
To be
Lunch
To be lunch.


When you are tired
You are ready to be lunch.
!NiK [‘13]



46. On Market Piranhas


“Money is a way of thought” [Oswald Spengler]


A market fundamentalist would be likely
To say that the only real
Truth in the known
Multiverse is the moving average
On a Stock
Market index.


Others might argue that there are so many
Variations
On a moving average
That nothing matters
And that the idea of
Truth
Is
An
Illusion.


In close-up the Index lurches
With majestic
Hard-driven
Velocity
In repose… pools of Piranha
Sweeping with uniform movement
Breaking
Up
Breaking
Down: threshing their wake
Rippling their spine
Konstantly Klenzing… rejuvenating
A veritable ebb and flow
Warp and weft.


The purest of the pure would call
The Index itself
Truth:
That the moving gobbling average
Merely predicts the
Truth
Whatever it may be.
!NiK[‘02]


47. Fibonacci’s Financial Flaws


All debt, she said
Is a right against
The future.


So I thought of Fibonacci
And his rentals
On the seconds of time
Borrowed from
Somewhen
Where
To feed our present ratio
Cow.


And knew by all that moved
That the future must
Start
To pay Rent:
Now.
!NiK[13]


48. The legend of Korinth Starr


They – you know who ‘they’ are?


‘They’ think they live in a tent
Where no one pays rent
For the space that they take
From the place they call Sent
Now and again.


Now, again the future is stretched
So it reaches the past
A paradox sweep
That leaves us aghast
A quantum leap
And mortgaged deep our vast
Existence now and now again
And again now to a thirty third
Time over again.


So the future now
Must pay rent now
To save us then
To save us when
To save us again
When we save
Amen.
!NiK[‘13]

49. Untitled


A loser would not wait to be mated
Knowing the end to be inevitable
The machine would resign.
!NiK[“01}


50. Reasoning Revelations [201]


Praxeological thoughts following perusal of a rationalist critique

Praxeological
Thoughts
Following
Perusal
Of
A secretly
Clandestine
Ran
t


Reason unlocks the door to transformation
Reason staggers; confounded by transformation.


They felt the great fear then
Those that waited
In
Judgement
Of the
Poet’s
Conclusions: delivered
Without simplicity of…
Fractions of…
Delusions…


That actions
May
Be lib
Er
Ated
From re-actions…
And a call
For
Restitution
That it should not be
Destitution
!NiK[‘13]


51. Escaping

Those little boxes were not
So little
Each one fitted
A person
And those that didn’t
Want one
Could wear sackcloth
Or even ashen finery
Just
Before
Sunrise
Instead.
!NiK[‘12]


52. What wasn’t imagined?


It was known that time curls
Around things and shows
Us what we already know
As something that we didn’t.


When we foresee that which
We didn’t dare to
Perceive then
We know that what
We see
Was not imagined.
!NiK[JM’01]


53. On finding crumpled up notes



I can only say
That memory
Is
Selective


The pencil with
Which
I write
This
Will
Fade
Soon


And when i
Find
This note
Crumpled
Into a pocket
In a few months
It will have be-
Come
Un
In
Telligible
Like my recollection of writing it


Thus therefore to such
Scribblings
On the submersion [?] of money
And other curious,
Felicitations: like
Does Dawkins
Meet Dworkin’s
Memes
Prompting rape* [ukudlwengula… IsiZulu]]
Memes
Prompting
Gryp.** [To ‘grab’ lasciviously: Afrikaans]

Memes being ancient
Themes
From then to
Now
Jumbled and carelessly
Discarded
Straightened not enforced
With
Rigid
Regime where
Write meets
Wong

Where rite and
Wrong go
Badly shod
Go
Ding
Dong
U Pong:
Odd!
!NiK[‘09]


54. Resting on a cliff


Eastern folk saying/proverb Chi-Na



Of the many dozen ways to
Get out of
Trouble
The best
Is
To
Go
!NiK[‘JM]
for Chi-Na


55. A limitation of mind


Everything is ‘gonna’ be all right
All right?
As long as you keep
Holding tight
To your vision
Of you
When you
Thought you
Might
No
Longer
Be

Real
Or even in sight


And you know then
That the impossible
Was
Only
A limitation
Of
Mind.
!NiK[‘13]



56. Endings


When you are no
Longer here
And no longer
Around: then peace
Is
Konstant.
!NiK[‘’98]


Thus endeth the Jonker poems

Poetry from the Jonker Memorandum

Jonker Memorandum Poetry