Fiat Omnia

Deep Code Audit: fiat_rootkit_diagnostic.sys

Audit Metadata

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• Author: Anonymous (post-1971 monetary prophet)
• Commit Hash: 2025-11-22 (base: Full-stack fiat indictment)
• Runtime: Civilisational daemon + temporal horizon stack
• Risk Tier: CIVILISATIONAL (reality stack annihilation)

File: README.txt (System Definition)

The System:
Civilisation runs on an operating system called "Money". It is the protocol that coordinates how we value time, energy, risk, and trust.

The Bug:
In 1971, the "Gold" backing was removed. Since then, the operating system has been "floating" (unbacked). Money became a tool central bankers tweak to manage the room temperature.

The Result:
This acts like a Rootkit—a hidden virus that rewires the system to favour gamblers over builders. It determines the structure of our relationships, the fidelity of our knowledge, and the quality of the things we build.

Purpose of this Log:
To diagnose the nine specific ways this corrupted code is crashing human reality, from the death of the future to the collapse of meaning.

Prerequisites (What You Need to Know)

• 1971: Nixon ended dollar-gold convertibility
• Inflation: Your money loses ~3-8% purchasing power yearly by design
• Cantillon Effect: New money reaches some people first (they win)
• That's it: The rest follows from these three facts

1. Executive Summary

fiat_rootkit_diagnostic.sys is a nine-layer indictment of unbacked, inflating currency. The audit concludes that fiat is not merely policy; it is applied ontology. When the unit of account is debased, the entire stack of reality corrodes. Unbacked, perpetually inflating currency rewires the human operating system, producing distinct corruptions that turn builders into gamblers, grace into capture, and civilisation into a simulacrum of itself.

Status: CRITICAL FAILURE.

2. Source Code (Decompile)

// fiat_rootkit.c - The Corrupted Logic

struct CivilisationRootkit {
    money: unbacked_inflating; // Money that loses value by design

    corruptions: {
        1: temporal_horizon_collapse,   // We lose the ability to plan past 5 years
        2: relational_financialisation, // Treating friends like networking assets
        3: epistemological_schizophrenia, // Stock market goes UP, real life goes DOWN
        4: material_enshittification,   // Products getting smaller, plastic, and worse
        5: ethical_krebs_cycle,         // Trading outrage for cheap legitimacy
        6: theological_usurpation,      // Central Banks acting like gods (creation ex nihilo)
        7: linguistic_nominalism,       // Words like "value" losing their real meaning
        8: telic_npv_reduction,         // "If it doesn't make money, it's not real"
        9: eschatological_postponement  // Bailing out the system forever; no reckoning
    };

    telos: perpetual_present_cage; // Result: Trapped in a never-ending "Now"
}

3. Process Table (The Corruption Cascade)

Note: Archetypes reference William Blake's four Zoas—see footnote¹ for those interested in the esoteric layer.

4. Boot Sequence

// PRE-1971: Sound Money Era
void classical_civilization() {
    work() → save() → compound() → build_cathedral();
    time_horizon: 300_years;
    result: Gothic_cathedrals + multi_generational_institutions;
}

// POST-1971: Fiat Rootkit
void corrupted_civilization() {
    nixon_shock();                 // 1971: Gold window closed
    liquidity_injections();        // Cantillon effect begins
    rate_suppression();            // Malinvestment signal jam

    work() → lose_to_inflation() → panic() → speculate();
    time_horizon: 5_years;
    result: strip_mall_civilization + drywall_condos;

    enter(ULRO_PERPETUAL_PRESENT); // Reality stack rewrite
}

5. Execution Trace (Diagnostic Log)

Log Entry 01: The Temporal Corruption
> ERROR: Deep Time Not Found.

Fiat money destroys the future. When money loses value by design, saving—the act of sacrificing today for tomorrow—becomes a mathematical penalty.

Concrete example: A civilisation on sound money builds cathedrals meant to last centuries. A civilisation on fiat builds strip malls and drywall condominiums designed to last exactly as long as the thirty-year mortgage used to finance them. The 30-year mortgage itself becomes the outer boundary of imaginable time.

We are trapped in a high-time-preference cage where the future is a threat, not a promise.

Log Entry 02: The Relational Corruption
> WARNING: Trust Protocol Deprecated.

Under sound money, a single income could support a family. Under fiat, purchasing power rots, forcing both parents to work and then moonlight as hedge-fund managers just to tread water.

Concrete example: The family home shifts from shelter to speculative asset. Thanksgiving dinner conversation turns to interest rates and portfolio allocation. Your retirement depends on correctly timing market exits. Even friendship is commodified; we scan social circles for "yield" because we are terrified of inflation.

The family unit ceases to be a shelter and becomes an economic anxiety engine. We are no longer citizens; we are isolated economic units.

Log Entry 03: The Epistemological Corruption
> SYSTEM CONFLICT: Map vs. Territory.

Price is a signal conveying scarcity and risk. Central banks jam that signal. When rates are suppressed, the market is told capital is abundant and risk is low—a lie.

Concrete example: Two realities diverge. Nominal reality: S&P 500 at all-time highs, unemployment "low", GDP "growing". Physical reality: crumbling bridges, falling life expectancy, tent cities in every major metro, young people unable to afford homes their parents bought on a single income.

A civilisation-wide schizophrenia emerges. We argue past each other because we literally inhabit different ontologies.

Log Entry 04: The Material Corruption
> DETECTED: Enshittification.

The Cantillon Effect degrades matter itself. To keep prices visually stable while currency debases, manufacturers hollow out the product.

Concrete examples:

• Chocolate bars shrink from 100g to 85g to 70g
• Steel becomes plastic. Wood becomes particle board with a veneer smile
• "Solid wood furniture" now means "contains some wood somewhere"
• Appliances designed to fail after warranty expires

We inhabit a world of simulacra—objects that mimic the real thing but lack its essence. Efficiency is maximised at the expense of soul. Your grandmother's furniture lasted 60 years. Yours will last 6.

Log Entry 04.5: The Regulatory Capture Subcorruption
> EXPLOIT DETECTED: Utility Privatization via Cheap Debt

Case Study: CVE-2025-ALLETE

Consider BlackRock's $6.2 billion acquisition of ALLETE (parent of Minnesota Power) in late 2025. The mechanism:

1. Finance deal using debt cheapened by suppressed rates
2. Outsource repayment to ratepayers via regulatory-approved rate hikes
3. Inflation dissolves the real debt burden
4. Private firm pockets fees; public bears risk
5. Essential infrastructure becomes extraction vehicle

This pattern repeats across utilities, hospitals, housing. What was public infrastructure becomes a financial engineering substrate. Grace is replaced by capture.

Log Entry 05: The Ethical Corruption
> LOOP: Moral Krebs Cycle.

Virtue used to be "proof-of-work" (sacrifice/risk). Now it is "proof-of-stake" (alignment). We process outrage into "Moral ATP" (cheap legitimacy).

Concrete example: Real courage requires skin in the game—the civil rights marcher facing dogs, the whistleblower sacrificing career. But changing your profile picture to the current thing costs nothing. Because outrage is costless to produce, we race to the bottom of hysteria. The Twitter mob is infinite moral leverage with zero moral cost.

Society ends up morally exhausted, rich in performative virtue but bankrupt in costly goodness.

Log Entry 06: The Theological Corruption
> EXPLOIT: Secular Theurgy.

Central banks perform the miracle medieval alchemists failed: conjuring purchasing power from nothing.

Concrete example: March 2020: $4 trillion appears via keystrokes. No mines dug, no fields tilled, no value created—yet suddenly "wealth" exists. The Federal Reserve speaks and markets move like congregants hearing divine pronouncement. "We stand ready to provide liquidity." Translation: "We perform monetary transubstantiation."

This isn't economics; it's monetary theology. The central bank sits where the Temple once stood. Money creation was once the ultimate taboo (counterfeiting = death penalty). Now it's boring monetary policy. We have normalized the sacred violation.

Log Entry 07: The Linguistic Corruption
> FATAL: Meaning Collapse.

Words like "investment", "wealth", and "risk" lose their physical anchors. The euphemism treadmill accelerates because the reality is unspeakable.

Concrete examples of semantic drift:

• "Spending" is now called "investment" (every infrastructure bill)
• "Printing money" became "quantitative easing" became "balance sheet expansion"
• "Bankrupt" became "too big to fail" became "systemically important"
• "Poor" became "low income" became "economically disadvantaged"
• "Inflation" became "transitory price pressures" became "base effects"

Political discourse feels insane because participants argue in divergent ontologies—one speaking post-1971 simulacra, the other clinging to pre-1971 physics. Rhetoric cannot bridge a chasm in referents. We use the same words but mean completely different things.

Log Entry 08: The Telic Corruption
> NULL: Final Cause.

Aristotle's "final cause" (the why) is erased. Everything must justify itself economically or cease to exist.

Concrete example: Ask why a forest exists. Pre-1971 answers: beauty, habitat, the glory of God's creation, watershed protection, future generations' inheritance. Post-1971 answer: "It has negative carbon credit value until we monetize it." Beauty, contemplation, or the sacred are "uneconomic" and therefore "unreal".

A cathedral takes 200 years to build and produces no cash flow. By Net Present Value analysis, it should not exist. Yet cathedrals are more real than the spreadsheet. We are a civilisation of means masquerading as ends, unable to name what we are for.

Log Entry 09: The Eschatological Corruption
> ERROR: Reckoning Postponed.

Sound money enforces periodic reckonings—depressions that clear dead wood, reset prices, liquidate malinvestment. Fiat exists to prevent the reckoning.

Concrete example: 2008 should have been the reckoning. Instead: TARP, QE1, QE2, QE3, Operation Twist, emergency repos, pandemic stimulus, debt ceiling suspensions. Zombie companies that should fail are kept on life support. Debt rolls over forever. There is no judgment day, only "containment".

But the reckoning cannot be deleted, only deferred. The suppressed panic leaks out as free-floating apocalyptic anxiety—climate hysteria, AI doomerism, political paranoia. We feel the end coming but are forbidden to name it. So we displace the dread onto acceptable targets while the actual problem (the monetary system itself) remains unspeakable.

5.5 User Interface (UI) Glitches

How the rootkit appears to the end-user in daily life.

6. Proposed Patches

Patch 1: Sound Money Reboot

- protocol: fiat_unbacked
+ protocol: bitcoin_hard_capped

Patch 2: Telos Forge

if (fiat_rootkit == DESTROYED) {
    restore_deep_time();
    rebuild_trust_networks();
    craft_heirloom_objects();
    build_cathedrals();
}

7. User Experience Summary

The Fiat Rootkit turns life into a rigged casino.

• Sound Money Strategy: Work, Save, Build.
• Fiat Strategy: Leverage, Speculate, Exploit.

This rewires the human dopamine system. Honest labour becomes the mark of a sucker. The plumber who works 60-hour weeks loses purchasing power. The financial engineer who structures CLOs gets rich. A civilisation of builders is transmuted into a civilisation of gamblers.

The house always wins, and the house is now inside our souls.

12. Exit Condition

The rootkit cannot be patched. It must be purged.

A civilization running on counterfeit money will become counterfeit in everything else—relationships, epistemology, matter itself. We're not debugging the system; we're choosing which operating system to run.

AUDIT VERDICT: ROOTKIT EXPOSED.

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

sudo rm -rf /fiat/*
mount /bitcoin
forge_cathedrals --recursive --deep-time

The green is still there. We just have to remember how to build on solid ground.

1. Appendix: Man Page (System Archetypes) — The four archetypes reference William Blake's "Zoas", representing fundamental aspects of human consciousness: Urizen (Reason/Law), Luvah (Emotion/Passion), Tharmas (Body/Sensation), Urthona (Imagination/Spirit). Under the fiat rootkit, each faculty corrupts: Reason becomes schizophrenic map-territory splits, Emotion becomes Krebs-cycle outrage, Body becomes enshittified matter, Spirit loses access to deep time and the sacred. This framework is optional—the argument stands without it. ↩