[simpleton]

February 12, 2010

What did you do in the Chaotic Unwind?


[3,000,000 people lose their jobs every January.]

[6,000,0000,000 people have not deciphered the Voynich Manuscript.]


[17,000 data entry jobs will not exist in 10 years.]


[30 common-use letters and more than 20 rare letters appear in the 272-page Voynich Manuscript.]


[Voynich manuscript sample page.]


[Other office and administrative support occupations requiring short- and moderate-term on-the-job training are also shrinking.]


[In 2018 there will be 20,500 fewer computer operators,]


[189,500 fewer clerks,]


[and 35,700 fewer miscellaneous office workers.]


[Some authorities say the Voynich manuscript was a book of medicine... ]


[...or cosmology...]


[...or herbs...]


[...written in an invented language. ]


[Others call it a hoax by an eccentric or slumming aristocrat.]


[All these theories are wrong. ]


[The decline of America has been masked by easy credit. ]


[Nam quae prima solo ruptis radicibus arbos vellitur, huic atro liquuntur sanguine guttae et terram tabo maculant.]


[For just as I hacked a tree at its burst roots, drops of bitter putrid blood poured forth from it and stained the earth.]


[As office and administrative support workers lose their jobs, they will be replaced by younger professionals... ]


[...who are skilled at operating Voynich-compliant keyboards.]


[Then future generations can learn of the Voynich civilization and its people,]


[who were exterminated by Christians.]


[When politicians talk about the economy, they use the language of war,]


[or the language of animal husbandry,]


[or of botany.]


[There are more than 630 known species of carnivorous plants.]


[On page 176 of the Voynich manuscript, your narrative begins.]


[You can read ahead.]


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[My narrative stops after my first suicide attempt.]


[After that it's all lecturing:]


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