The meeting point of the cultures of East and West, the first shining star of the trade route, the one that wrote its name into the history of money: LYDIA! Although the thesis still stands that it cannot be known for certain who invented money in history, the title of ‘the first invention of money’ still belongs to Lydia, which minted coins from precious metals and, by virtue of its location, rendered high service to the trade route. The first coin was struck in the time of the Lydian King Kroisos (Croesus), in the shape of a broad bean, from the alloy of gold and silver called Electrum. Once the coin had been invented in the kingdom of Lydia, it crossed the borders of Asia Minor and reached from around the Mediterranean as far as China. Yet when it reached China the Lydians did not lose their title, but the invention they had come up with underwent considerable change. In short, we shall always remember that the Lydians invented money, but those who write have already written it into the new flat-world history of 2020 as “The Lydians invented money, the Chinese loaded it with ‘Intelligence’”…
It has been a few days since the global pen of the New Flat World announced the privacy policy that WhatsApp will put into effect on 8 February. Those who heard this news packed up bag and baggage and, without looking back, left the world of the Lydians as the first to migrate to the New Digital United World State. To those who asked us, we now said of this matter only: “What is there to say but DIEM.”
As for the migration news of the last few days: “Facebook and WhatsApp will merge their data. With this merger, users will be able to use Facebook services such as Facebook Pay on WhatsApp. In addition, advertising and promotional content from the Facebook ecosystem will also begin to be shown on WhatsApp. You can review the whole of the Privacy Policy, updated on 4 January, at the WhatsApp help centre.” That is how it is for now …
In fact, this situation of WhatsApp became known when it was made official. It was a system whose infrastructure had been prepared as of 2019. Facebook had for several years been following the money, payment and banking system in China’s long-standing Smart City Life application. It also prepared, long ago and without much delay, the infrastructure for its efforts to build such a system through WhatsApp. Again according to information we read a long time ago, Facebook’s system was designed to allow, first of all, money transfers.
Perhaps you remember, or you may not have been able to read it: we would like to draw your attention once again to an article of ours published on this platform on 11 September 2020 under the title “ZOLOTAYA KORONA: A GOLDEN CROWN as a Gift to the One Who Walks a Road!” We had written, on the 11th of September of the take-it-or-leave-it year, that we had received word from Red Thursday of the Wednesday of the WhatsApp Migration that arrived today!
In China most people do not remember when they last used cash. Because in Shanghai, in China, the internet in the Metro is faster than the internet in homes, on a train journey of about 45 minutes People, without noticing how the time has passed, get off at Jing’an Temple station and transfer to the second line. In the crowd of walking smartphones, as they have been ever since they lodged their heads in the SIM of their smartphones, they step into a mini-market and buy something to drink, and their payment is made by “WeChat Pay”. The walking smartphones, enjoying the popularity of going to Luckin Coffee where the Shanghai television tower stands, have added a short coffee of pleasure to the indispensables of the day. Their ratings of the coffee, cheaper than Starbucks and of good quality, are also automatically uploaded to the big data centre. In return for this service obtained through the application on their Smartphones, a 28-Yuan score turns into a coffee that brings happiness as if it had been obtained free of charge. To buy a coffee one neither goes to the till nor stands in a queue. The order is placed from the application on the phone, and payment is made with a QR code. The application gives the guest a queue number. When called, our walking smartphone reaches its coffee of happiness and its purchase is complete.
China’s new system of walking smart devices is life itself… The day that begins with coffee comes to a sudden halt when, while crossing the street, the connection to the highest intelligence is cut. In smart cities, even though there are no vehicles on the road, pedestrians have to wait when crossing the street. If someone crosses improperly without waiting, the camera opposite identifies the person and projects the person’s face onto the screen beneath the traffic light as a walking unintelligent device that cannot serve as an example.
We say that we shall live through all of this in the near future. In fact, is not our whole life right now a preliminary preparation for this system? “Migrating from WhatsApp”, that is, moving from one application of the digital world to another? It is only that some people are experiencing the beta version in advance. Once all the system’s vulnerabilities have been eliminated, shall we not be the system of the digital united world state of the flat world? The future is being designed mostly around how society can be controlled. In the 2019 of the pandemic, that is, in China, very new technologies began to be used. In this period of the first 3 months of 2020, the Chinese administration carried out the Digital transformation, the “Internet of Things (IoT)”, with 2,000 new technologies.
IoT technology is briefly explained under these headings: Sensor System, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Data Privacy and Secure Data Communication.
The Internet of Things, that is, IoT, is a concept first put forward by Kevin Ashton in 1991, and this new technological concept is defined as the smart connection of smart devices by means of objects that sense one another and can communicate. With this system, users will be able to control any device they wish over the internet. They have also written, as an estimate, that as of 2020 there are around 50 to 200 billion connected smart objects.
By another definition, the Internet of Things is “The Future Is YOU”. That is, “You Are Without a Future!”
This is the Migration of objects having begun to build a world of new meanings in human relations and to steer them by taking them under their dominion!
It is the movement in which the human being, interested only in the technical dimension of the object that has been created, has lost all awareness of the thing’s reflection on the world of the spirit and, sociologically, on society… Heads buried in the SIM, a way of life according to the system of fear, instruction and reward that comes from the SIM.
We no longer have to think, after all. In this age when even artificial intelligence thinks and philosophizes, who would have thought, in the ages when we had our wits, that Man would bury his system of thinking, like his freedom, inside a SIM? Who could have known that work would be managed sitting in front of a screen and that the ability to move would be lost, that with all this inaction individuals would end up in a disabled state and that thinking would lose its meaning?
To be piled, like a mountain, onto the commentary on commentaries of the kind ‘objects estranged from reality have SUPPOSEDLY besieged our lives’… To put on the mask of innocence while the forms that objects possess vanish in their perfection… The ‘human being’ who, under the illusion that he has not lost his superiority in using modern humanist terminology, is in denial of being besieged by the unethical values of the commodity and of exchange… The ‘human being’ who buries himself in a SIM the size of a stamp and no longer knows that he is the dispensable one of the world of objects…
Stay well…
Keywords: LYDIA WhatsApp Money
Translated from the Turkish original.