OK. I still find it interesting, but I’ll limit my discussion of it on here (at least or unless I have something more substantial to say). There is a slight tension though in your ‘junk Derrida, forget the Wittgensteinian bore… (but) we won’t have a definitive understanding ever’ approach.

Oh, look, it’s another metaphor for language. It’s not a kind of tool, it’s not the House of Being, it’s not a system of difference and deferrance, it’s not a memetic virus-like entity with its own spooky Will to Proliferation, it’s not a kind of organ (Chomsky), it’s not an inextricable aspect of how we get around in the world (Davidson), it’s like an ancient city! Wow, deep.

If you can’t recognize the difference between talk of the ‘linguistic turn’ and linguistics qua linguistics, I’m not going to bother. Your point about Wittgenstein is intractable and therefore meaningless to me too; a final, fixed interpretation of Wittgenstein isn’t coming in 500 years, let alone 100.

Forgive me my furore on this particular point, but this kind of navel-gazing discourse about language is so utterly, horrifically boring in 2014, especially given the gripping work that has been done by the Speculative Realists among others, not to mention our host himself.

It’s 2014, not 2044. Any real (domestic) threat to dollar hegemony can be vaporized – except, of course, for Amazon gift cards…

It’s actually a pretty funny thought that Jeff Bezos and a few other uppity internet billionaires secretly masterminded the overnight adoption of the ‘untraceable’ Bitcoin, just so they could avoid sales tax right up until the point that the USG really starts to flex the police state muscle.

However…Sir…what is your kind of reactionary? All you counsel is despair.

Perhaps the Father of the Reformation, and the City of God which plagues us for centuries and is now in it’s suicidal teological end state [look around for the results of the City of God made flesh], and the cringer at the door to the Dark Ages? I’m surprised the Vandals buried him.

http://www.theopedia.com/Augustine_of_Hippo

What do you counsel ever but despair? That all our works may be dust. Yes. We all end in dust. We don’t however need to live in filth, and my kind of reactionary wants to use the gifts God gave us to do something and indeed anything to raise us from it.

We need Apostle Paul’s and we need Constantines. Man never needed an Augustine, he is a plague on all he touches. Despair is the enemy’s strongest weapon, it needs no prophets.

God allows us to say shit when it is in our mouths, and to spit it out. We need not live this way, nor bequeath filth, pron, libido domine, bankruptcy, serfdom to an insane and evil class of pajama boy-things as our posterity.

The actual Vandals would of course be an improvement.

Forbes: “Bitcoin Is Not Anonymous And Is Always Taxable”

Real Currencies: “Is the National Security Agency behind Bitcoin?”

Bitcoin Forum: “Has the NSA already broken bitcoin?”

Rick Falkvinge: “Bitcoin Could Lead To Liberty Paradise, But Also To Surveillance Dystopia”

Ajay Shamdasani: “Bitcoin better than cash for AML and KYC compliance, says founder of new digital currency exchange” [PDF]

Vice.com “Bitcoin’s Fatal Flaw Was Nearly Exposed.”

I’d also point back at Vladimir’s four scenarios criticism, and particularly Nick B. Steves’ fifth scenario, in line with the above. Just as Dominique Boullier and Lesser Bull expect MOOCs to expand the power of HYP, I, and others, find it likely that Bitcoin will become another tool of the Cathedral Panopticon.

Again, this faith that some clever technological trick will non-catistrophically overturn the Cathedral and pave the way for some new Golden Age is very Progressive. It reminds me of Geordi and/or Data whipping up some Treknobabble doodad in the last five minutes of the episode to free the Enterprise from the Negative Space Wedgie of the week. It’s poor-quality soft sci-fi, and one of the cancerous memes. I would again question whether one with faith in that sort of Deus ex Machina can be considered any kind of reactionary.