Re: [wta-talk] CEP?

As I promised Rafal earlier in the day off-list, here's what I could
find in a brief parsing of the book. The last quote best describes
what makes the CEP attractive to me. The quotes assembled here were
found and typed out manually from May 2000 Bantam paperback reissue.

In going to the trouble to assemble this information, I longed for the
technology in the book "Sewer, Gas, Electric" by Matt Ruff - where a
character is parsing through a collection of political speeches and
asks the computer to "cull lies, half-truths, vague answers" and the
like.

Even an index would've been nice. :)

-crw.

pages 27-28:
"As this territory belongs to a nation-state that recognizes the CEP,
you are entitled to a hearing of any such charges within the judicial
framework of the nation-state in question, which in this case happens
to be the Chinese Coastal Republic. This nation-state may or may not
grant you additional rights; we will find out in a very few moments,
when we present the situation to the relevant authorities."

page 28:
"Then the constable turned to Bud and said, very fast: 'Are you a
member of any signatory tribe, phyle, registered diaspora,
franchize-organized quasi-national entity, sovereign polity, or any
other form of dynamic security collective claiming status under the
CEP?'"

pages 34-35:
"'The CEP code,' said the Sikh, 'governs all kinds of economic
interactions between people and organizations. Theft is one such
interaction. Maiming is another, insofar as it affects the victim's
ability to fend for himself economically. As Protocol does not aspire
to sovereign status, we work in cooperation with the indigenous justice
system of the CEP signatories in order to pursue such cases."

page 49:
"Protocol insisted that everything be made heavier than need be, so
that it would fall, and capable of being degraded by ultraviolet light.
But some people violated Protocol."

page 209:
"The city itself was a sprawling bazaar of claves. Consequently it was
generously supplied with agoras, owned and managed by Protocol, where
citizens and subjects of different phyles could convene on neutral
ground and trade, negotiate, fornicate, or whatever."

page 225:
"Shortly after passing the Aerodome they reached Stanley Park, an
unruined peninsula several miles around, which had, thank God, been
forked over to Protocol and kept much as it had always been, with the
same Douglas firs and mossy red cedars that had been growing there
forever."

page 239:
"In some tribes, children are regarded as an economic asset of their
parents. So if one phyle shelters runaways from another phyle, it has
a possible economic impact which is covered under the CEP."

page 291:
"Information technology has freed cultures from the necessity of owning
particular bits of land in order to propagate; now we can live
anywhere. The Common Economic Protocol specifies how this is to be
arranged. Some cultures are prosperous; some are not. Some value
rational discourse and the scientific method, some do not. Some
encourage freedom of expression, and some discourage it. The only
thing they have in common is that if they do not propagate, they will
be swallowed up by others. All they have built will be torn down; all
they have accomplished will be forgotten; all they have learned and
written will be scattered to the wind. In the old days it was easy to
remember this because of the constant necessity of border defence.
Nowadays, it is all too easily forgotten."

On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 04:50 PM, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:

> Eugen Leitl wrote:
>
>>> - with nanotechnology and computers with optical projection
>>> capabilities - and most of all, a Common Economic Protocol and
>>> Claves?
>>>
>
> ### Is there a more comprehensive description of what exactly is the
> CEP?
> Just reading Diamond Age I got only a very fuzzy idea.
>
> Rafal
>
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Received on Wed Oct 16 18:25:30 2002