Its a Charade isnt it?
More and more it looks to me like they are playing to some script. It’s all an act. The Iran-Israel thing, NATO funding - its all scripted and acting. It has reached the point where the western world is one big game of charade. Some of us - mixing metaphors - see that in fact the King is naked. Most do not - they play along - their emotions manipulated from minute to minute. Hell, its so good sometimes that I too fall for it - for a while.
For me this all covers over that the world - the western world - is getting dumber and dumber all the time. AI will only worsen the general state of dumbness trust me. That is why I refuse to use AI - it doesn’t help me - it is the equivalent of sitting on my sofa with a bag of popcorn rather than getting down to the gym. It will relieve me of my mental fitness. Make me dumber and in the end, cost me my life (or way of life).
But how dumb is the world?
Well, here are some examples that have become obvious to me in recent days…
KYC - OK, I understand KYC. However, why do firms apply the same rules to a sole proprietor for a 100 Eur invoice as they do to a multinational for millions of Eur? This is happening far too much to me just recently and I am not going to spend 3 hours of my valuable time providing a bunch of silly information to get paid on a 100 Eur invoice. I would rather not do business.
VAT - I just purchased a new van. I have a VAT number, the seller has a VAT number so this is a VATless transaction. So then why does he charge me VAT and both of us report the VAT so I get a refund? Is this jobs for the bureaucrats? Its rather bloody silly really - why not simply have another one of the million VAT codes showing that VAT would have been charged, paid and reimbursed but everyone realised that was a silly waste of time to do?
Virtue Signalling - The same firm that attracted my venom over its KYC also serves as another example. I thought, I will call their accounts payable and discuss a compromise. I went to their website. There I was treated to their diversity, anti-slavery, carbon neutrality and other such ridiculous policy statements. Like I actually care? Like anyone actually cares? Its all lip service and Ai generated BS posted there anyway. However, could I get a phone number? Nope. Not a single phone number on the site - not one. You wanna contact them you fill out a form and hope they respond. This is stupidity as well. As an advisor, I always tell businesses - phone number!!! front and central if you want to do business.
Oh well, I yearn for the simpler times of the 1990’s. I yearn for people to apply common sense and a sense of personal responsibility. For I forsee the total and utter collapse of the west in the next few years…. the level of BS and stupidity and charade has reached the level of utter excess….. it is becoming harder to get anything done at all.
The Israel thing is still going on because everyone has been threatened with disclosure of photos or videos of them in compromise or promises to harm their loved ones. All Jews get blamed when it's just the top criminals. Write about that.
I feel your pain. One imagines that the VAT thing is simply a grift. A mechanism whereby the parasitic class can get their paws on it, however fleeting. I took the view towards the end of my consulting days to turn over just under the VAT threshold. I chose my time over money, rather than support the non jobbed leeches working for .gov.uk. With a big ticket items, I can understand why you would register, however, I simply had had enough of the unbearable pain from HMRC & my accountant. Don't drown in a sea of black pills my dear boy. Get those rods out, connect to those earth energies, you know it makes sense Rodders!