The shoe's on the t'other foot now. But that doesn't mean it's a comfortable fit.
Es Geloybte Aretz - a Germanwank
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Indeed. Which is why I feel I'm missing a point or reference or something, here.
With TR on the expedition, I suppose mammoths are not long for the world here either.
If that is, this were any sort of canon post! I await a real post by carlton_bach and am not sure I understand the mentality of a thread fan mimicking the posting style of the author, albeit badly, to put in something silly.
If that is, this were any sort of canon post! I await a real post by carlton_bach and am not sure I understand the mentality of a thread fan mimicking the posting style of the author, albeit badly, to put in something silly.
Clearly not, unless carlton_bach has some other thread set around 1890-1910 going on I don't know about, or someone else who adopts his wacky "put the canon update stuff in quotes" (which I dislike but he likes, so author's preference rules) has one going. Which is possible but I doubt. Stendhal imitated the author's style, a little bit, and picked up on a character who has appeared in the TL, but said something silly that would if taken seriously get this thread relegated to ASB--surviving mammoths in 20th century is clearly "evolutionary POD," plus he'd be taken to account for how come all the butterflies from surviving mammoths have not rendered all of recorded human history completely changed.
It is a silly form of "bump" like those godawful pages of battling disgusting snack foods or tank debates that used to fill up The Whale Has Wings until Astrodragon finally pulled the plug on it formally.
carlton_bach posts prolifically enough I think we need to back off and give him space/time for the final wrap-up posts--clearly the main storyline is nearing an end.
Although if it went on years and years more I'd like that--everyone seems to have decided it is the story of the alternate Great War between Germany/AH and Russia, but it didn't start out that way--it was the story of the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm III, and that story still has decades left in it, at the level of detail we had before the war.
The author might not want to do that since prophecy has already told us it will be a rather sad story for the Kaiser. Since I was hoping for a Kaiser who joins forces with the Social Democrats to make a People's Reich with Hugo Gernsbackian nerdgasms galore, I too can forego the long painful decline of a Kaiser who falls between stools, turning to the common people just enough to alienate the aristocracy but then scuttling back abjectly to their ungrateful and rotten bosoms when he gets cranky. I can see how it can be good for Germany to have that happen, to wean the populist Left from any romantic soft paths of victory via a Good King and keep them on the hard path of developing true popular power in the teeth of strong upper-class opposition. But it still makes this bunny cry to see poor Willy twist in the wind.
So if the story will soon ascend to the level of summary narrative and lose its flesh and blood vitality (or tell more of the future faster by skipping rapidly from one vignette to others years and decades down the line, which will still make the whole thing kind of jumpy) then so be it.
But gosh folks, give the man time to get it lined up in his head! He does it so well when we don't push. And pushing won't make the good stuff come.
And you just got me to re-read the whole thing...
Maybe I'll forward an index to @Zmflavius . Time for a drink.
I suspect a wrong tab. That, or a serious overestimation of the availability of high-quality honey in postwar Russia.
Mind, hunting holidays in Siberia are going to be really cheap the way the paper rouble is going...
Mind, hunting holidays in Siberia are going to be really cheap the way the paper rouble is going...
Now that's the attitude. And as always, excellent chapter.
yboxman
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"If you had land, factories, or shipping interests, you would come out all right. If you lived by selling your labour, you’d at least have a job, and a chance of ending up in one of the new housing developments to boot. But if you were invested in bonds, pensions or rents, the government had halved your value in one fell swoop - and you would be lucky if it stayed at that."
Brilliant. Sticking it to the rentier class! Of course, this means less investor confidence, which will disproportinately impact new businesses without ready cash reserves- indirectly this will butress cartel dominance of the the German (And Central Europian) economy for years, if not decades, to come. For that matter, staying off the gold standard and "erasing debt" via managed inflation is pretty much going to ensure that Germany will have a much harder time selling bonds come the next war. Come to think of it, so will any other country- the risk premium on wartime bonds will go up through the roof once the implications of this shtick become clear.
It won't be quite so bad as the backlash in the U.S following the effective repuditation of WWI debts OTL, but it will come close. And if France is seeking an alliance with the "Great Republic" the emotional context for this attempt just became a lot more realistic than it originally appeared in Clemanscu's fantasies.
Carlton, I must say, that I've never seen the financial sides of a great war scenario explored this well in AH. I hereby crown you the Niall Fergusson of the Genre! Is your academic background in economics?
Brilliant. Sticking it to the rentier class! Of course, this means less investor confidence, which will disproportinately impact new businesses without ready cash reserves- indirectly this will butress cartel dominance of the the German (And Central Europian) economy for years, if not decades, to come. For that matter, staying off the gold standard and "erasing debt" via managed inflation is pretty much going to ensure that Germany will have a much harder time selling bonds come the next war. Come to think of it, so will any other country- the risk premium on wartime bonds will go up through the roof once the implications of this shtick become clear.
It won't be quite so bad as the backlash in the U.S following the effective repuditation of WWI debts OTL, but it will come close. And if France is seeking an alliance with the "Great Republic" the emotional context for this attempt just became a lot more realistic than it originally appeared in Clemanscu's fantasies.
Carlton, I must say, that I've never seen the financial sides of a great war scenario explored this well in AH. I hereby crown you the Niall Fergusson of the Genre! Is your academic background in economics?
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