When the rule runs out
Fri 12:26 pm +00:00, 19 Jun 2026
Source, item 1 here: https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/06/19/the-acorn-111/#1
The way of thinking imposed on us by “modern” industrial society is sold to us as scientific, mathematical and rational.
It casts aside our ancestors’ conviction that the world is alive and full of wonderful mystery in favour of the flat insistence that it merely operates like machinery, according to hard and fast rules that “experts” claim to have identified.
But this is simply untrue, since all rules have their limits and cease to apply beyond a certain scale or circumstance.
Take, for example, an apparent rule associated with the number 37. When you multiply it by a certain other number, the digits of the result will eventually add up to that very number.
So:
1 x 37 = 37… 3 + 7 = 10, 1 + 0 = 1
2 x 37 = 74… 7 + 4 = 11, 1 + 1 = 2
3 x 37 = 111… 1 + 1 + 1 = 3
4 x 37 = 148… 1 + 4 + 8 = 13, 1 + 3 = 4
5 x 37 = 185… 1 + 8 + 5 = 14, 1 + 4 = 5
6 x 37 = 222… 2 + 2 + 2 = 6
7 x 37 = 259… 2 + 5 + 9 = 16, 1 + 6 = 7
8 x 37 = 296… 2 + 9 + 6 = 17, 1 + 7 = 8
9 x 37 = 333… 3 + 3 + 3 = 9
10 x 37 = 370… 3 + 7 = 10
11 x 37 = 407… 4 + 7 = 11
12 x 37 = 444… 4 + 4 + 4 = 12
13 x 37 = 481… 4 + 8 + 1 = 13
14 x 37 = 518… 5 + 1 + 8 = 14
15 x 37 = 555… 5 + 5 + 5 = 15
16 x 37 = 592… 5 + 9 + 2 = 16
17 x 37 = 629… 6 + 2 + 9 = 17
18 x 37 = 666… 6 + 6 + 6 = 18
So far, so good. But after we pass the number of the beast, things start to go wrong, because:
19 x 37 = 703… 7 + 3 = 10
It sort of half-works again for 20, although we need to multiply the result by 10.
20 x 37 = 740… 7 + 4 = 11, 1 + 1 = 2 (x 10 = 20)
And the triple digits characteristic of 37 keep adding up appropriately right until the cusp of 1,000:
21 x 37 = 777… 7 + 7 + 7 = 21
24 x 37 = 888… 8 + 8 + 8 = 24
27 x 37 = 999… 9 + 9 + 9 = 27
But otherwise, and beyond, it is a mess. The “rule” no longer works because we have passed beyond the very limited context in which it applied.
In the same way, I wonder at what point the literal impossibility of infinite “economic growth” in a finite world will suddenly become all too obvious to everyone.
I wonder what level of “debt” owed by every country in the world – to cheating bankers who conjured up the original “money” out of thin air – will explode in the faces of the usurers.
And I wonder just how far a tiny cabal of psychopaths can push a deranged plan to gain total control over the whole of humankind before billions of people wake up and say “no!”.
Their rule, and their rules, cannot go on for ever.
