The Undermining of Laws Meant to Mitigate Wealth Inequality in Maine
How a privileged unelected elite rewrote Maine's Home Rule ans Affordable Housing Law to advantage iys profit margins.
I have recently been listening to a guided Buddhist meditation during which time, the discussion in Gödel, Escher, Bach came to be about Buddhism. The book title relates to the theme of mapping meanings from system to system. It can be a mapping of numbers to typography to art, music, or DNA or just about anything, identifying patterns of shared meaning, or in some cases displaced meaning.
Now the discussion in Gödel, Escher, Bach has moved on to computer language that starts with bits of information manipulated by the CPU (central processing unit) as clumps of information. The CPU is isomorphic to society’s leaders manipulating units of people. like pieces on a chess board. From the perspective of the CPU the chunks are indistinguishable, but scaling deeper into the microscopic depths, the interaction between the bits, molecules, atoms, photons, and quanta, evolves beyond our comprehension in mysterious ways, let’s just call it magic.
In my peer review work for HSSC, The paper about th…
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