Creditism - Oh Joy…
By no means are we free from such issues as ageism, sexism, and racism, but alas, there exists a new threat which looms on our horizon: Creditism. A class-based system which believes itself to be able to understand people just off of three numbers. Amazing, right? Look how far we have come! We can know everything we want to know about people, without having to get to know them, see their reasons, or understand their methods. Now, we need only look at their credit rating and their entire life is laid bare before us. Oh, is one of those numbers is not like the rest? Well, lucky for us, this is nothing more than a herald brought forth to show us the light. We should probably see this herald for what it is, and recognize that this person is a good for nothing low-life, with more debt than he can swim out of, and the fact that he is never going anywhere is clear as day by the numbers he wears. We might as well consider him trash in our new, modern, sleek, and expensive world, where what you don’t have, but people believe you do, is worth more than the tangible assets themselves. Where people get ahead through network, rather than hard work, and where a man is only as good as the nonexistentent-commodity-backed currency a bank is willing to print off for him (or very soon, type in for him). Welcome, to our new world. A new world where details only muddle the surface, and clarity comes at the expense of glass walls and shower-curtain coverage. This is the 21st Century, and by God if it won’t be a glorious one!
Creditism, is reductionalism at its finest. Numbers, beautiful numbers. I wonder what Van Gogh, or Picasso’s credit scores would have been? How about Dicken’s, or even Einstein’s? I bet they would have been amazing! I mean, these are people who have changed our understanding of the world, and who’s names will forever live on in the history books, if that doesn’t show up in their credit scores, I do not know what would. Or how about all those who choose ascetism, and a simple roman life style? These hardy fellows forego common luxory for uncommon tenacity, a skill which being extremely useful must have some way of being shown in a credit score, right? I mean, tenacity and gumption are some of the best skills we can bring to the executive table, are they not? Hmmm, I don’t know where in those three numbers this magnificent information is hidden, but I am sure it must be there. Why else would so many business deals and the trust therein be built off the credit system, if it wasn’t a true indicator a person’s prowess? I mean the credit system is revolutionizing our world. These three numbers look the be sole successors to our old, outdated world, of references, initiative, and proof. I mean, we will no longer have to have faith in our fellow humans, but instead can completely fit them into less than 32 bits of memory. We human’s sure are worth lots, and I for one, am so glad we have a system which recognizes our unique intricacies, and indivualistic tendencies, such that it can crunch our personalities down, and provide unheard of levels of information compression. Encrypted are lives of the people into a triple-number score. Hail the firewall of our society, and long live Creditism!