Hell, the world it seems
"My own personal opinion of the Bank of Canada is that they regard us collectors somewhat more favourably than counterfeiters, but not much so. Collectors are honest people who want to know information about note production for purely academic reasons. It's not our fault if pranksters and shysters take the information we have and use it for criminal purposes."
"The cynical collector would surmise that the Bank of Canada is ordering all of these changes just to confuse collectors and brick searchers. Though this is highly unlikely to be the case, there is no evidence to prove or disprove any and all theories. As the catch phrase coined in the movie "Field of Dreams" tells us, "If you build it, they will come". Correspondingly, in our dysfunctional Internet-based society, if you build a theory and post it online, someone will find it, read it and believe it. The information age is no longer about conducting research using clearly-defined principles and objectivity before generating unbiased reports like it was performed in the past. Logic and rationalization go out the window when all information now becomes politicized and is spun to fit hidden agendas. We live in an age when scientists are becoming politicians and vice versa (for example, David Suzuki and Al Gore, respectively). "Progress" has never been such a dirty word like it is today."
Relevance? Isn't any hence a diatribe or a person who needs a good editor. I happen to like this person's writing, succinct simply isn't in his/her/its vocabulary. No big.
