Ride The Lightning
Part 66: Appendix
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The Shatter
The Global Depression of years past.”
“World wide, one after another and in parallel, governments had imploded. They had shattered like glass. The ensuing economic Mega-Depression, from the point of view of the world’s financial and ruling elite, was a terrible thing, they lost trillions. As far as the common man was concerned, in many places, it was much, much worse. All over the planet, the common man died in droves.”
“What can not continue Will not continue and eventually it did NOT. It had to end sometime and it did. All the central banks of all the world nations had been so deep in debt that one last straw would bring the whole house of cards tumbling down, and it did.
Somewhere, some place some bank or federal agency added that one last straw.”
“It all collapsed.”
“The Islamic Jihad is said to have been to blame, or perhaps FOE (Friends of the Earth), The Klan, Militant Vegans, The SJW (Social Justice Warriors), the NOW Gang (National Organization of Women), a Gay Pride Group...or none of them or all of them. SOME flavor of COOTTII. (Cult, Out Of Their Tiny Imbecilic Intellect), SOME group of “useful idiots” had to be blamed by the Marxists when their World Socialist Utopia didn’t work...again.”
“It wasn’t, it could not have been THEIR fault. Just ask them.”
“The last several dozen times that Socialism had failed, each and every time it had been tried, people had suffered. Each and every time Socialism had been tried, JoeSixPack, the peasants, the common man had suffered grievously and died. This time would have no doubt been the same except for several factors. It was bad enough but it would have been incalculably worse except for.”
- The Internet
(the DarkNet, Open Source Software)
(BitCoin and BlockChains) - 3D Printers
(Molecular Manufacturing Technology)
(NanoTech of Various Types) - Genetically Modified Organisms
(plant and animal)
(Micro and Macro) - Robotics and AI
(ASSes : Artificially Stupid Sapients)
The Free Market.
The so called BLACK Market according to government control freaks.
(Odd that ‘black’ should be equated with ‘free’? Is it another one of those ‘slavery’ things? Something to think about.)
The market works best for everyone when it’s free: any regulation makes it less free.
Yeah …but.
There is no but. Either it’s free or it’s not.
“Never before in human history had such powerful technologies and a Free Market existed at the same time. Never before had they been unchained. It was different this time. Here a Geek, there a geek, everywhere there was a Geek, and they shouldered the load, soldiered on and made it all better, or at least they made it less worse. Many people didn’t starve this time, without government, in fact, many of them prospered.”
“The Makers prospered. The Takers and the Fakers had a hard time.”
“If elections had ever mattered, the SHATTER would probably have never happened. If elections had ever REALLY mattered elections would not have been allowed.
(DhmiKrat vs Rino...Pepsi vs Coke, Mandatory voting, Do Your Civic DUTY! Nationalism...all hail the Glorious Vaterland!)
In the past, every single damn time…immediately after being elected all the candidates suffered selective amnesia and went along with the crowd..the elite’s status quo.
(All HAIL the Collective, The People’s Democratic Socialist STATE! Complete with Glorious leaders.)
To the average Joe SixPack the New Boss had always looked just like the Old Boss.”
“Except this time. This time it was different.”
Tesla Tech
A few years, or maybe a decade, before the SHATTER two young girls from vastly different backgrounds had met in college, at Texas A&M. They were very serious minded and intelligent girls and had no time for silliness.”
One majored in Robotics, Cybernetics, Psychology and Information Technology…a strange combination to be sure. The other in Theoretical Chemistry, Physics and thus Materials Science. However, they were each genius level polymaths and their interest wandered far and wide. Their thirst for knowledge was insatiable. They didn’t limit themselves to one subject or even one field, they consumed EVERYTHING available to them.
They also became best buddies. Where one went the other wasn’t far away. They had each other’s back both academically and socially. They each came from large old-style families, with lots of (smart) brothers and sisters, and they had devoted (highly intelligent) boyfriends.
One of the Girls had a family secret. In the 1940’s one of her ancestors had been present at the death of Nicola Tesla. That ancestor had been entrusted by the “mad scientist” with his legacy. Tesla had given her a leather bound journal. In it was the theory, AND the preliminary explanation for the engineering and the technology, for his latest, greatest and most radical discoveries. For whatever reason he had wanted her to have it.‘Show it to your children and their children and theirs through each generation. He had requested of the young black hotel maid ‘one day perhaps someone can put it to good use. I don’t trust governments or corporations any longer. They’ve screwed me over enough already.’
Then he died, those were his last words, and the maid was the only one there to hear them, my favorite nephew had told me. Everyone else at the table that night knew this.
He confirmed what I already knew. I’d read about it some myself. Nikola Tesla had been a weird bird.
The young women, a direct descendant of slaves, had done so, she had fulfilled his dying wish.
Many generations later, the girl in who I mentioned, had read the journal and understood it. She understood the implications. She conspired with her best buddie, the other girl. They formulated a plan.
After the SHATTER they, their BoyFriends and families, implemented their plan. There were no intact governments left standing to stop us. Society had splintered and fractured into tribal groups. They formed their own tribe. They made their OWN clan.”
For a while there, very briefly,they had a minor problem with gangs. Some of those gangs weren't housebroken. There were bandits, and sadly, a lot of former cops who felt it was easier to steal rather than build. They didn’t play pretty with others and engaged in Rape, Pillage, and Burn. Sometimes they even got the sequence right.
They were reminiscent of governments’ but retail instead of wholesale. They were perfect examples of the ‘useful idiots’ that governments had used throughout history as an excuse to gain power. They weren’t much of a problem for the Clan. not really. They had some high tech gimmicks, some of which were extremely lethal.
And then there were the wild geese of the Clan. Former Military, those who had seen the elephant. Those who had fought in wars and still knew how to do it. They weren’t hesitant, either. After a few demonstrations no one wanted to mess with them. The few slow learning stubborn idiots that tried, they died.
They had taken to calling themselves the Aesir. They laid claim to an abandoned island in a large Texas Lake.
In a fit of originality, they called it Asgard. It might have been, at one time, a dairy farm or a horse ranch. The main reason they chose the island was the vast amounts of coal below the surface.
According to the geophysicists in the family there was a bed of coal, a vast field of compact carbon, that ran from near the Gulf of Mexico, through much of East Texas, northeast under several states, all the way to Pennsylvania and beyond. In many places it is hundreds of feet thick and a hundred miles wide. That was just what they needed. Lots of Carbon.”
TheBuildings, water, and innate defensibility of Asgard were just icing on the cake.
In the Barn, out of sight, they drilled a hole. The hole went to the coal seam which wasn’t that deep. Into that hole they lowered coal moles, and other gimmicks that the girls and the smart ones had designed and built. A LOT of beer was consumed in the process.
It was fun.
The rest is history. A few years later the first ThunderFog was sighted.”
Definition of Some Terms
Alien Space Craft: crashed onto Antarctica. has a cyborg cat girl onboard...she’s dead but her soul-stone is not.
Alter Ego : A separate personality residing in the same brain as the original ego.
Aesir: The clan that lives on Asgard Island .
Asgard: Island in big lake in Texas from which the Bifrost Bridge originates.
ASS: Artificially Stupid Sentient ...an intentional snark. Artificial Intelligence has been proven to be impossible. Immensely capable automation has been developed. None have ever “woken up’ . When anthropomorphically overlaid they are ASS’s..
Behavioral Sinks… Aberrant behavior caused by stress. The stress is caused by exceeding dun-bar’s number for too long.
Bifrost Bridge: DiamondSmoke construction in the form of a multilevel Suspension bridge that spans the globe.
Centaur : a weaponized quadrupedal prosthetic. The upper body is body armor for the wearer. The lower body is a robot.
Diamond Smoke : a form of utility fog. Only possible due to TeslaTech.
Dunbar’s Number: A Psycho-Neurological Hardwired paradigm in humans. It is the number of people that constitutes “us” or ‘the people” “Us” would be the family, a gang, the clan, or a tribe vs Everyone else. Everyone else would be “them”, “other”, enemy, goyim, kafir some other dehumanizing term. The exact number of “us” varies between individuals but follows a Bell curve. It is typically between three and two hundred. The mean is one hundred..
Examples of the effect .
My brother and I against the clan.
I, my brother and the Clan against the world.”
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“If you mess with me you mess with the whole trailer park”
Foglet... microscopic robots. Made of carbon. Each contains powerful molecular circuitry and nanocomputers. Made possible by Tesla Tech.
Full Immersion TeleOp: Remote operation of a vehicle using a VR Rig.
Genie: a genetically modified organism such as a Parlor Panther, a House Lion, or others.
Heimdalls :The Aesir who are Guardians Of Bifrost.
SpiritCrystal: a diamond memory database
accessible via NewieNewie (NUI). Neural User Interface When integrated to a Sentient Non Sapient (or pre-Sapient) it precipitates and enhances Sapience.
SHATTER : the world economy collapsed, all the nations shattered. A state of anarchy ensues.
Smoke Pole: a multi-configurable device made from diamond smoke...it’s default setting is ‘hiking staff’.
Tesla Tech....Technology derived from the latest theories of Nikola Tesla. Inscribed into a
ThumBrain...a very small, ultra powerful smartphone.
Utility fog. ..a vast swarm ‘foglets’ that stick to each other in an infinite variety of configurations.
WaterBattery. A cold fusion device that produces electricity. Built using stereolithographic molecular deposition manufacturing technology and Tesla Tech.
WIG: wing in ground effect vehicle.
ZAP : or Zero Aggression Principle. A much ‘lawyered’ topic. Fundamentally it means that one should not initiate aggression.
Historical examples:
It places no restrictions on retaliation. None of the ‘turn the other cheek’ nonsense. Good manners would suggest that ‘proportional force’ be considered.
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,'
I thought
`but a grin without a cat!
It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!’
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