Paper on which there are quotations or commentaries from the Five Classics or the names of sages, I dare not use for toilet purposes.
Scholar-official Yan Zhitui 589 AD.
An inscription had been put up in the entranceway to the few extant libraries of South Europa. In beautiful copperplate it reads: “In circumstances of dire need, you may tear pages from the books to use for hygienic purposes.”
This is further proof of their paper phobia, their manic desire to destroy all known printed materials. Everything that cannot be digitally modified: old and new books; pamphlets; newspapers; paper documents of any kind (medical, legal, governmental records)… all are to go!
i have it on good authority (Auld Archie’s) that Josef A is demanding the destruction of all printing presses, citing that most specious of reasons: tree protection. For those caught in possession of a press there is a three year mandatory prison sentence . ‘A paper crime,’ they’re calling it.
Typewriters…
… in working order have become extraordinarily difficult to procure. Nowadays nobody can get official permission to make the ribbons. Typewriters on the black market cost a king’s ransom, bought mostly by billionaires who can negotiate – pay their way out of trouble – with the authorities. In any case, their transgressions are usually some saccharine verse composition, which Josef A is well capable of forgiving and even appreciating. Dictators being renowned for having poor taste. But what really draws Josef A’s mercy is the transgressor’s wealth and not their ‘Greeting Card’ verse. Nothing consecrates as much as money. The rich flaunting the privileges they buy with it. The poor eternally seduced by the dreams of earning a lot of it and thereby society’s respect.
Thank Obama for those pamphleteers heroically ignoring the ‘paper and print’ ban. Alas, their bravery alone will not halt the steady decline of independently printed works.
Harm of surnames
By omitting the family name of the former USA President i have made it all the more conspicuous. But there is a principle at stake. To make people aware that dynasties of the materially rich and influential exploit their surnames.
Josef A will have you believe that surnames are entirely arbitrary. They are not. Surnames vouchsafe powers and perpetuate privileges. Of all sorts: educational, intellectual, sporting, financial.
In the class (apart) rooms of exclusive colleges, the surnames – of those preparing to govern and control – pompously, boomingly resound. Has been this way since the time of the pharaohs.
Tyranny of Tutankhamen. Actually, Amen-tut-ankh. Divine name first. Names matter as do their order.
Of course Calculus once had a surname. One nobody dare mention.
– The surname should disappear for ever, along with inherited advantage or disadvantage.
He calls this mental manipulation for the betterment of society
Nicknames…
… deemed acceptable with one important proviso: they be used only among friends and family. Nobody else must get wind of them. Mine, among my friends outside the château, is Finn Manifesto. On account of me ‘going on’ about social stuff.
The Kommune does not impose nicknames. Kummunards are not made to jettison their personal histories.
We are no sect. Repeat.
We are no sect. Repeat.
We are no sect. Repeat.
Sect joke.