I addressed some simple questions by email to the county assessor and received a reply that evaded the questions I asked and a statement that the state tax code is complex. Obviously it is so complex that he did not want to answer the questions asked because they could either not be explained or if explained would reveal serious problems in the tax code itself.
It is a complex world made more complex by the present failure to migrate the complexity of information structures created in the Industrial Age that were necessary to produce both physical and conceptual objects. The Information Age technology has focused on the creation of more and better physical design and creation of things than the design and creation of more and better conceptual things.
The end result of that focus in the beginning of this century is the Internet of Things. Things uniting in a physical connection web that brings together their logical conceptual relationships on the foundation of their physical relationships for the purpose of serving us. Serving us like trains, planes and automobiles physically served us in the past century but now serving us on the map of conceptual relationships that have the look and feel of Facebook than speed over distance over ground.
Until we die everything in this world we think and do has a physical relationship foundation. We can get detached from that physical connection as much as we want with fantasy games, religion or drugs but the the physical connection to our world is always there regardless of our leaps into a purely conceptual. We do not enter that realm until we die.
Rumi said there are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth. I'll add that there is only one way to kiss eternity where the physical nature of time and space are either eternal or non-existent.
The point of the preceding thoughts is that as we get farther and farther out on walking the plank of our physical/logical conceptual world the more we must focus on the structure of Information Systems that connect us to the real world. If we loose that connection that in conceptual terms is a Blockchain connection to our physical and social existence then literally......all is lost.....or lost by so many of us that the entire conceptual structure of the most nebulous of all our creations called Society falls apart like a house of cards that no longer knows the foundation on which it stands.
We stand on solid ground. The simple solution to the challenges of the Information Age is to continue to stand on solid ground. The solid ground of the earth we exist on or what we conceptually create that must be founded upon conceptual ground that is equally as solid.
Geographical Information Systems are founded on the face of the earth. Everything relates to that face in space and time. Earth Mother.....Mother Earth. Our physical world is built on it. Our conceptual world is built on it. It is our foundation for the integrated structure of both worlds.
Therefore: The best single most fundamental point of entry to the entire nature of the conceptual world we have built on this Physical Earth Foundation is and always will be the Physical Earth itself.
The leap we take in this century of the Information Age is the same as the first leap that was taken at the dawn of the Industrial Age that
broke the surly bonds of earth. Broke those surly bonds to either touch eternity forever like many before or live to fly another day.
The big E "Earth". Is a great place to stand an build upon in both the physical world and the conceptual world. We'll never lose our way in our conceptual world as long as we can connect it to the real world and the real world of the physical and conceptual things we create.
A tax code is about as high as one can fly in the conceptual world without going out into the eternal space beyond the real world. Proof? Nothing is as sure as death and taxes.
The tax code is too complex?
Maybe it is time to bring it back down to the simplicity of standing on the earth!
How to do that?
Simply tie all tax back to physical point of origin on the face of the earth! Every physical thing or conceptual thing created in the human mind regardless of how complex it may be has a direct physical/logical connection to an earthy Blockchain location in time a space the truth of which can be established at any time.
The challenge of the Information Age is to simply create the architectural framework on which the simple truth of the relationship between the real and our conceptually created world exists.
The "Map of the World" that existed at the time of Columbus bore little resemblance to the one we can see in so many difference ways as a result of a google search today.
The conceptual overlays on that Map of the World that we have created in the Information Age are in about the same degree of exploration accuracy as what Columbus had available to him in his time.
It is a wonderful time to be an Explorer and pin everything to a map of the New World!
What was the genesis of this blog entry?
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-budget/343645-the-more-complex-the-tax-code-the-more-the-rich-benefit
From Earth All Blessings Flow.
On Earth All Taxes Flow (or not) To Conceptual Institutions of Governance. Institutions that govern us that are either Sovereign Governments or sovereign rulers of our conceptual social system.
Which way the flow goes like the division of the Continental Divide can be mapped as an overlay on a GIS map of the real world. Like a map of the real world the flow of the river of money can be traced to its geographical source or branch sources. All money flows from person to person at the source then goes downstream in an environmental cycle of replenishment.
The problem is that we are not maintaining the environment but plundering it for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many.
Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the earth. Until I was older I thought my father was the one that said that.
Archimedes would find his lever to be a conceptual one today and he would stand on a GIS map to use it.
Modern day Archimedes meet-up:
http://orurisa.org/
http://www.gisinaction.org/sites/default/files/Program2017.pdf
Nothing beats anything like a fact on the ground!
