# Nepali Associations. A diary note

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MMMDCXCIX. Nepali Associations. A diary note. - September 11, 2025.

Nepali Associations. A diary note.


In the movie 'The Social Network', the main character creates and promotes a social network. Two secondary characters, who gave the main character the key idea, participate in a rowing competition.


The main character becomes a billionaire, and the two people who gave him the key idea start suing him. In the end, they received millions of dollars (but not billions).


What is the motive of the main character? He wants to climb the social ladder, he wants to become a very rich person.


What are the motives of the two people who gave the key idea to the main character? At the beginning of this whole story, they wanted to "ride an intellectual rickshaw". At the same time, they cared about their health and appearance (they were involved in sports - rowing). In court, they defended their rights and sought to get money.


Why does a person (user) deal with a social network?


I asked myself this question a few years ago.


At first, I absorbed a mass of information and was filled with cautious but rosy expectations.


The information and expectations prompted me to create several accounts in several social networks.


Time passed, and I tried to find an answer to the question: why do I enter into correspondence with strangers?


I hesitated for a long time: (1) hopes (did not disappear), (2) a noticeable amount of time spent (almost every day in correspondence), (3) a significant amount of posted content (text, photos; it seems, even my films)...


But, after much hesitation, I deleted all my accounts.


Along with this topic, I remembered my student topics. Among my classmates (students of one year of admission to the university), there were no fans of Western ensembles (and Western music). Those people had different levels of interests, but all interests were quite practical. Almost everyone thought about getting an apartment after graduation, some got married or planned to get married (after graduation). There were some talks about income growth after graduation.


But there were faint rumors about students who were fascinated by Western ensembles (and Western music). The fascination reached such a degree that these (music-fascinated) students corresponded with foreign radio stations and received records (disks) with musical recordings.


I don't know if they read the Soviet Constitution, which guaranteed all Soviet citizens a huge amount of rights and freedoms? But even if they did read it, the result of this correspondence was very unpleasant for them. Or maybe they were so fascinated by Western ensembles that they had no interest in reading the Constitution of the USSR?


Or maybe they were right in their own way? Let's say, a person receives a tax notice and finds out that he has lost (only two years ago) the right to his own estate object? Maybe there was some deep wisdom in the passion for Western bands and in corresponding with foreign radio stations in order to obtain records (disks) with relatively rare musical recordings?...


I return to my thoughts about social networks. I gained an interesting experience trying to use the potential of dating services.


Different people entered into correspondence, but I found this case interesting.


A young woman told me about her relative - a girl. This girl had a child. She met guys from well-known regions of our country. For a while, this girl disappeared. Then she appeared, silently gave her child to her parents, and went to the home region of her future husband. After that, she disappeared forever.


I found this story interesting. That's all the benefit I got from various kinds of electronic dating services. I am not inclined to remember in detail some unpleasant conversations that did not have any rational meaning.


But I remembered South Korea and its most (very) interesting experience related to various types of legal prosecution of (against) high-ranking officials. One of the relevant stories unfolded recently before our eyes.


Perhaps the citizens of South Korea are not the richest people on this planet. There are mass unrests in this country. But periods of tension end with the relatively easy removal of controversial high-ranking figures from the political orbit. After which the hard-working citizens of South Korea go to their jobs and produce excellent high-tech products (successfully sold on the world market).


The citizens of South Korea can be grateful to the energetic figures of their legal sphere (law branch).


I do not watch TV (for many years now), I only listen to the radio. For some reason, I thought recently that there were difficulties in the work of banks and ATMs (for a certain period of time) in the widely-known mountainous country.


I remembered Sergei Yulievich Witte, his golden rubles. (In 1896, Witte undertook a major currency reform to place the Russian ruble on the gold standard.)


In the book about the USSR People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Litvinov there is such an episode (described by the author of the book very laconically, so a misunderstanding was possible - for a some reader).


(I wrote about this book: MMMDCLXXXIV. International competitions - with one leg and with a metal prosthesis (the book by Zinovy Sheinis "Maxim Maximovich Litvinov"). A literary essay. - August 6, 2025.)


I understood this episode in this way. After the events of October 1917, Litvinov (who lived in England) received a radio-telegram that he was appointed plenipotentiary (ambassador) of Soviet Russia in Great Britain. Litvinov set to work. He was waiting for the arrival of a courier with credentials (certifying Litvinov's authority as ambassador) and money (necessary for the functioning of the embassy). After some time, the courier arrived. He did not bring credentials (certifying Litvinov's authority as ambassador), but he did bring a huge sum of paper tsarist rubles. (Lenin and the entire Soviet Government were kind and generous people?).


So here's the question: why (how, what way) did paper tsarist rubles circulate for a long time - after Emperor Nicholas II left the political scene? Probably because in the minds of the masses (both in Russia and abroad) this paper money was inextricably linked with its exchange for gold rubles. And this wide circulation (usage) of gold coins (gold rubles) was the result of the efforts of Sergei Yulievich Witte. So after October 1917, banks were closing, and there were no ATMs then, but somehow the gears (cogwheels) kept turning. And even Litvinov in Great Britain somehow "was turning" ("was rotating, spinning") as a Soviet ambassador - without credentials (without necessary documents), with paper tsarist rubles.


[Note: Association in psychology refers to a mental connection between concepts, events, or mental states that usually stems from specific experiences.]


September 11, 2025 20:05


Translation from Russian into English: September 12, 2025 4:10

Владимир Владимирович Залесский ' Непальские ассоциации. Дневниковая заметка. '


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