Cutting to the Chase

Free range roaming the World Wide Web this Sunday morning I found this: https://www.revealnews.org/article/feds-hunt-down-mystery-landowners-in-bid-to-build-border-wall/ that lead me down a path of thinking about land and maps related to my recent roaming of the county assessor's records that have links to satellite views of each property in the county and city as well as the ability to select overlays applied to the map.  A map is a point of entry to so many things. It would be, will be so much easier for the Feds to find the information they were looking for so far back in time when that information will be linked to an online map with thousands of overlays.

My best find roaming the WWW this morning:  http://boingboing.net/2017/04/19/great-video-essay-on-john-carp.html To see it, look at it this way:  The guy is wandering the physical city like it was a map with an overlay of seeing conceptual things for exactly what they are on the map. https://vimeo.com/danielclarksonfisher/videos

There is nothing as absolute as the land.  Mount Everest may have risen a few feet.  It is going to be re-measured.  I look at the county tax map and every square inch of the county is mapped to a tax liability.  In some cases, no tax liability.  Absolute mapping of the geographical area assures that nothing escapes the eye of the county assessor dividing up the entire county into tax lots owned by somebody, some entity with an address to which tax bills or may not be sent.

Some property owner addresses only link to lawyers representing the true owners.   The lawyers or other non-owner intermediaries entities as well as the true owners holding legal title to the land asset value know who really is the beneficial owner of the land.  If and when the land is sold then somebody, somewhere, knows their bank account just increased.

Nothing is as sure as death and taxes and money in the bank.

Maps are wonderful things.  They are conceptual abstraction representations of the real world.  In the Information Age we now have a direct link from that abstraction to the real world.  Perhaps nothing is more abstract than the concept of money.  Maybe politics.  Certainly religion...to some.  In the case of money and land the county assessor's map brings the two together like marking two points on a piece of paper then folding it to bring the two point points together to illustrate the conceptual impossibility of time travel that defies the linearity of time.  It is the ultimate example of cutting to the chase.

Cutting to the chase has always been my obstacle to getting where I want to go.  The prerequisite is a ponderous construction of setting up the situation as if it was a movie car chase production taking days if not weeks to set up to ultimately present in a few minutes.

Cutting to the chase is the light at the end of the tunnel...the point where everything emerges into the light of day.  The joy in the ponderous journey to get there, that final summation is like a lawyer setting up a court case and finally winning bases on the tedious progression of presenting the evidence for a final connection to judgement.

Some take joy in crossing the finish line.  Others take perhaps a greater joy in the journey to get there that enhances the joy of finish.  That explains my only two of my accomplishments.  Being a navy officer and a Ironman triathlete a son, brother, husband, whoever I was in different roles.  Each having a final connection to documenting a moment in time connecting two points on a piece of paper folded in an instant to bring the beginning and end together.

It is the story of something that is simultaneously absolutely real as well as absolutely conceptual coming together at the end....at least for those that believe it is the end and not the start of another dimension beyond the linearity of time where the two points touch for eternity.  One thing we can all agree on is that it is the end of one state of being and the beginning of another.

How did I get so far away from the starting point of this blog entry?

I like the setup necessary to cut to the chase.

Back to the set up.  I'll cut to the chase after that is done.

The set up is to set the stage.  Nothing sets the stage like the real world and a representation of the real world as a stage to play on...Where have I heard something like this before...something about actors.  We are becoming actors in our own virtual worlds.  They are only conceptual extensions of our real world made possible by Information Age technology.

Back to mapping the earth.  A big job.  We can see the progression of doing the job from a flat earth to a round one and then presenting it on parchment, then paper and then in binary digits.  Each level over time becoming a more accurate representation relating to more abstract human concepts.

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