Re: GR translation: its own definition of Earth’s surface drifting upward in value

[Prashant Kumar]

I think you're right here. "Its" pertaining to economy here.

P.

On Monday, 19 November 2012, Mike Jing wrote:

> P241.19-33   Well, Roland must make the best of it, that’s all. If they
> get this far, he has to show them what he knows about Control. That’s one
> of his death’s secret missions. His cryptic utterances that night at
> Snoxall’s about economic systems are merely the folksy everyday background
> chatter over here, a given condition of being. Ask the Germans especially.
> Oh, it is a real sad story, how shoddily their Schwärmerei for Control was
> used by the folks in power. Paranoid Systems of History (PSH), a
> short-lived periodical of the 1920s whose plates have all mysteriously
> vanished, natch, has even suggested, in more than one editorial, that the
> whole German Inflation was created deliberately, simply to drive young
> enthusiasts of the Cybernetic Tradition into Control work: after all, an
> economy inflating, upward bound as a balloon, its own definition of Earth’s
> surface drifting upward in value, uncontrolled, drifting with the days, the
> feedback system expected to maintain the value of the mark constant having,
> humiliatingly, failed. . . .
>
> What exactly is "its own definition of Earth’s surface"?  Real estate?  Or
> something else entirely?
>
>
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