That ConMan in that so fascinating dark future Cyberpunk world, which has a mirrored him in the Real World, having both no moral stopping points from hiring mercanaries to run a diamond mine, ensuring drug transport routes reliability or just selling more cheap, crapy ammunition and AK copies into troubled areas of this world might one day become a Dark Lord. A Darth Vader of Cyperpunk, a society of dominating shadows.
A dark lord is running a feudalistic system being quite on the top of the food chain.
Feudalistic from Feudalism. That word is interesting. I had Latin classes and sucked pretty bad, while the language itself fascinated me. While I was utterly bad in translating school texts, readig the septingua, the latin script of the Bible, was so fascinating that I was considering learning also old Hebrew and Arabic, but a day only has 24h and I sleep a lot.
Also, the teacher did not like any dicsussion of Latin - German wordlists.
So, if you are a teacher within the German school system or alike, especially on Latin, be worned strong content is following and we recommend to stop reading. Me, myself and I, like all of me do recommend strongly.....Anyway, have a laugh:
Latin was the basis of communicaton of the Roman empire, a state build on slavery and surpressing other people by conquering with force which took in its early days old antik greek as its base.
Feudalism derives from feudum which google today translated as fee. Checking german sources feudum is translated into "Lehn" which describes not a fee or tax but lented soil. Both appear to point at the same root, because you lent and give a fee to keep the property given into your ownership.
So, I thouhgt lets keep rocking that google translate tool and go crazy, like the world of Cyberpunk.
lent = commodarentLatin was spoken for a few thousend years way beyond the roman empire and so the language developed. I guess, I just did not feel comfortable with the turns the German scholars took in the last few decades before I hit school and I love abstracting, the teacher don't. I like to put things on a meta level, like having a creative step back, teacher like to stick to the copy and creativity is for the fine arts class, only.
Metaleveling borrow:
Borrow is me giving something away for a period of time (=definition).
horum mutuo postulaverit is to borrow in latin according to google translate (=definition).
Horum is the hour and on a metalevel a certain time period (=going crazy).
Mutuo might have turned into mutual and therefore on a metalevel stands for two or more persons or groups agreeing, especially in that context.
Postulaverit = I like this one, because my teachers will freak out. Post is past, but like the postal service carrying and going after you until you have it ;-). Laverit might have turned into laverage, which is in its very root meaning responsibiltiy on a metalavel. That mercanary will not use something against you as levarage that you have no responsibilty of, right? And that u? You have to pronounce that somehow, so a vowel, which in even older hebrew is not even written, will do.
So putting that abstract metalevel thought together, it means I will be after you for the time you have responsibilty on what we agreed onto to keep. :-)
If you can't put that all together you must be one of those teachers I warned to better stop reading, before. Keep hitting those Corona parties...
Metaleveling lent:
Lent is me getting something for a time being.
Commodarent = Sweet one for crazy people. Comanding and dare hits me. Como is "how" in Italian and if you think of com' o(n) you might read this beyond sober. But back to propa crazy: Basically, on a metalevel this word could mean to dare to take command on something of which how its treated matters. I admit that this is a wild one and that's why I like it.
Feudum so, does not hit any of that even close.
feor, adj., far
feorh, noun, n., life
and
dæg, m., day
And to crazy me that makes sense. In a feudalistic society your life might belog to someone that is not your friend in a part of society far away all day long in deed. I wonder if the latin word feudum derives from the Roman occupied english terretories from natives enslaved by the roman conquerors.
In allmost all dark future worlds described in books and games mega-enterprises in the sunlight creating the shadows those stories are all about and are dominating a bipolar society, a society reduced down to only two poles depending on each other, destructing each other further towards either ressurection of humanity or collaps into an apocalyptical Mad Max waste land like in an sociopathic end of mankinds' societies.
To me the Roman Empire is the blue print of a possible dysantrop society of which we already have to many tiny parts in action spread out all over the world and even alive in our western societies. We are far off a feudalistic system here, yet live in a faster and faster moving society. We need movement. We cannot stop movement and all those declaring movement of goods, persons or thoughts like mine, ill and bad will create a dysantrop society more alike dark future sci-fi worlds than the Roman Empire or the dark midages european feudalisim, but as anti-social, as abusive and, inch allah, facing even more resistance than those roman troops in our barbarian wood lands or the saharian desert dry lands.
Jont the Resistance and may the force be with you, Cyberpunk!
