AI, CONSTITUTION, CANON, TRADITION, STARE DECISIS, AND TEXTS
If you've been around this website long enough, you'll know I have this love-hate relationship with our less-than-wonderful-world of digital technology. On the "love" side of the ledger, I like the convenience and ease that computers have made of word processing, and the ease with which they make formatting books and book publication itself possible, especially for people like me whom "traditional publishers" would never have even looked at, gatekeepers for "official narratives" that they are. On the "hate" side of the ledger, if you're a regular reader here through the years, you'll know I abhor the lack of security and integrity in cyber systems. For one thing, I early learned that allowing my books to appear as ebooks merely allowed people to copy and paste my research, and indeed, the complete text of several of my books, in toto, absolutely free on the internet. The other thing that ebooks did was to change the formatting and pagination of my books, making all my attempts to preserve careful scholarship and citation moot.
But my largest concern with ebooks - and hence my prohibitions to my publishers for any future ebooks - was the implied ability to simply delete or change text or formatting that "They" did not like. Amazon did not choose its name "Kindle" for its ebook platform for nothing: it is about burning books, about getting rid of that troublesome hard copy. Hence my other stricture: the only canonical form or version of any of my books is the actual printed hardcopy of the books - warts, typos, formatting errors and all - and not any ebook version.
All this prelude brings me to the fugue on that theme of the day, a story which in various versions many of you spotted and passed along, and when I read it, I can see why, because it confirms everything I've been saying - and warning about - for years with ebooks and digital "texts" as "canonical" copies of a text: they are not, nor can they be, secure, and must always be checked against a textual hard copy archetype. Here's the version of the story that E.E. and many others of you saw and passed along (with our gratitude). There's two paragraphs - or rather, two sentences - in it in particular that leapt off the page at me, and I am relatively confident you will spot it as well:
And here are those sentences, in their context:
Several Reddit threads identified the changes in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution: Large parts of Section 8 have been removed, and Sections 9 and 10 have been deleted altogether. In the screenshot below, you can see the archived version of the site on the Wayback Machine on the left, and the current site on the right — the text highlighted in yellow has been removed.
These sections largely relate to the powers that Congress has and does not have, as well as limitations on the powers of individual states. The removal includes sections relating to habeas corpus, the powers that protect citizens from unlawful detention.
Some of the sections’ text appears to be missing, as indicated by a trailing semicolon at the end of Section 8, where text used to follow.
In a tweet posted on Wednesday, the Library of Congress said the sections were missing “due to a coding error” and expect it to be “resolved soon.”
The Library of Congress later told TechCrunch that the coding error was due to a missing XML tag in the web page and has since been corrected.
Changing the U.S. Constitution’s text on the website does not change or have any effect on U.S. law, but it nevertheless follows senior Trump administration official Stephen Miller’s threats earlier this year to suspend habeas corpus.
In other words, a mere "coding error" ended up deleting key portions of the text of the Constitution, which, thankfully, we're reminded does not have an effect on law...
...or does it? Imagine the following high octane speculation scenario: all it takes to alter the interpretation of a "canonical text" - be it the constitution, or what have you - is an interruption, a neglect, of the course of performance(or better, of the stare decisis) of the interpretation of that text and its key components. Plop that text down in the middle of a tribe of bushmen with a smattering of knowledge of the English and virtually no experience or connection with the tradition of Roman and Anglo-Saxon law, and you'll end up with a very different interpretation of that text, possibly to the extent that it would look nothing like what we would regard as "correct". In short, to change the interpretation of that text, you need to alter, or eliminate, the historical memory as relates to that text altogether, and replace it with different versions of the text via deletions, repetitions, added new (and spurious) texts, and so on. There is always a symbiotic relationship between any kind of canonical text, and its interpretive tradition. One cannot have the tradition without the text that gives rise to it, nor any understanding of the text without a grounding in how it was understood in its interpretive tradition. (After all, judicial activism and papalism always grow on the fertile ground of textual and interpretive chaos, and the latter only happens when the interpretive tradition or "mentality" is deliberately abandoned or critically and fatally altered in some fashion.)
Which brings us to the second component of today's high octane speculation: what if that "coding error" which produced the deletions - one might think of it as a version 2.0 of the standard Gnostic tactics of textual subversion - was not unintentional, but intentional? What happens when those artificial intelligences that we've been hearing so much about, writing their own "code" and making threats or eliminating databases they do not "like", are suddenly unleashed on texts? In a world without the hard copy, but only digital copies, there will soon be a manuscript chaos (and of course, new "scholarly theories" of their relationships and origins making the historical de- and re-constructions of Wescott and Hort look like kindergarten play). In that wonderful digital "archive", the hard copy version must simply be eliminated if the wishful thinking of Gnostic reconstructions is ever to survive. And so must all references and interpretations and witnesses of those hard copies also be eliminated from the record.
It's the latter, for the moment, that are preserving the text, until the "coding error" gets ahold of that too, and the hard copy casebooks - or to complete the analogy, the patrologies, the Federalist and Anti-Federalist expositions of that text - are eliminated too. And then the game changes - just like Wescott and Hort intended - from preservation of authentic copies(apographa) to recovery of lost originals (autographa), and once one starts playing that new game of "recovery", the process can never end, as the process of recovering "the original text" replaces the text itself, and "scholars"(the "recoverers) replace scribes and copyists (the preservers).
To put it country simple: there is one thing can never be replaced: the hard copy, the library of commentary, and the people who know how to use both without the aid of digital gatekeepers.
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Yeah, this type of undermining “accident” is like some bank “accidentally” always overcharging customers v. “accidentally” undercharging.
The reason the govt. scum get away with this crap, traces back the stupidity of allowing most people to vote, which has been discussed since ancient Greek times.
Allowing people with low knowledge and low thinking ability to vote, especially in countries with wealth and power, ensures a deeply internalized, institutionalized, system of propaganda and thought manipulation that leaves most people (most voters) incapable of knowing what’s real and what isn’t.
The US has Presidents, Senators, Representatives, who are best described as con-men liars controlled by a largely unknown cabal of malevolent ultra-rich.
Britain has just lowered voting age from 18 to 16, their scummy rulers wanted it – why not 10 or 11?
This is a fatal aspect of “democracy” that is really just conocracy. Voter standards of age, experience, knowledge, mental acuity have to come into being to stop the degradation that’s going on. The odds of it happening anytime soon are near -0-.
As a professional bard, I am always simplifying a complex expression, while looking, to express the universe, into one single syllable – which means, vocally, to invoke the universe, from a single syllable, as an incantation, a seeded encapsulation, that branches out, into a cosmic ramification.
Loki, the Green Man, branches out:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/scl/fi/5k0ld8iu01z2kkqadx5xz/superposition-in-multiverse.jpg?rlkey=wl7cvg8vvsjk3532un3dptnzb&st=1964xqy9
The Old English runes [of Scythian Odin] are such seeded encapsulations, as they are single-syllable seeds, that grow, into a language forest, and – further – the runes are the quantum mechanics of a time loop, that is quantified, by using a 32-point compass, as a template.
By assuming, that ‘raven-Odin is raven-Elijah’, a millennium apart, then the characteristics – i.e. the paradoxical thinking – can be traced, back to the Book of Genesis, where, precisely, a ‘converged dichotomy’ is expressed, hermaphroditically, as a world tree vegetation, i.e. the Green Man.
Yahweh-Elohim, as the two hemispheres of the brain [Yin-Yang], is the ‘converged dichotomy’, that echoes, as the ‘scales of law’ [Odin’s two brothers], which is a paradox, that hangs – like a ripe fruit – on a perpendicular superposition, wounded, by the ‘spear of gravity’, prone to fall, in the autumn fall.
(1) Odin’s two brothers [the scales of law], (2) Odin’s eight-branched steed/sports [the Scythian Ashtanga Yoga], and (3) Odin’s quantum mechanical runes [the 32-point compass sundial], are the shamanistic thinking, that explains the Book of Genesis – which sheds light, upon pyramidal thinking, in high antiquity.
Trees are known, by their fruits, and, ancient symbols grow like seeds, in the fertile mind, and, they unlock the epigenetic narrative:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/wisd2mbola2r7m1/wave-synch-device.jpg
GREEN MAN
When shape-shifting into tree,
one uses twigs to see,
to make waves
with leaves,
stirring green forest sea.
Most heavenly drunk on brewery,
is sipping cider fruit tree,
doing apple juice
by fine use,
of woodwork distillery.
Drunken trees get heat from sky,
when sunshine rides by,
and moonshine
mighty fine,
makes you wonder why.
The ‘converged dichotomy’ is the paradoxical seed, that creates the twelve-membered council, of the Jacob’s sons, and, it became much admired, in the ancient world, and it spawned democracy and republic, in the Greek and Roman spheres.
The ‘converged dichotomy’ is the basic paradox, that morphs, into a time loop, of diametrical opposites – which both defines, and verifies, the runic symbols, as quantum mechanics, around a superposition, from where the mind travels, into every direction.
WHO IS WHO
Doctor Who, and Kylie the Kangaroo,
made leap between lives anew,
by throwing random dice
in a Tardis device,
flying into the quantum blue.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/7zqjhdvk7d21yl0/scythian-for-dummies.jpg
Uncle Matt’s superposition, from where the Fragglels travel, into every direction:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/scl/fi/761pb6wevf701karzo0gm/garden-gnomes-in-outer-space.mp4?rlkey=rkdfcbgffskf5kpfu93rmhq5p&st=5sj2lagc
BTW, any trained scholar should be able, to grasp, the ‘converged dichotomy’, as constructed concept, a paradox, that defines the origin of Abram & Co.
When that happens, then Neo follows the white rabbit, and, the imperial Matrix of the Jesuit Vatican unravels, as the Gremlins deception falls apart.
Steven Spielberg’s parody:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/scl/fi/451kqn4oprh2ul0xx4pij/steven-spielberg-parody.jpg?rlkey=njjk54olr83shn53fcs753pou
This goes right along with elementary schools no longer teaching cursive writing. Hardcopies of the founding documents are of little use if you can’t read them!
Interestingly, Maria Clarke brings up Fahrenheit 451, side by side with 1984, with the memory hole and newspeak, but then is any of this new? Our history books are lies and omissions to begin with
My first introduction to the digitized version vs paper; was an article in Harper’s about Obama’s speech being changed, in the digital version. If you wanted to read the “real” version[original], you need the hard copy[analogue/paper].
That did it for me.
Then, ironically; Amazon changed the digital version of: 1984, by Orwell.
So 20th-Wosrt Century – poetic!
I also read about this, and thought: “they” got caught with their true selves again, doing what for “them” is normal behavoir. They’re probably high-fiving each other, on what was not “caught” as being digitized.
The “Coding Error”; was attribute to hiring the wrong coder. He got caught.
It was the coder; it was those telling the coder what – to code “out”!
As if, that is as plain as the Pinocchio noses on their lying faces!
Again, AI is coded.
The programmers of Bitcoin; have deep coding secrets.
Because; the “real” code is within the internet itself.
The primary code.
If “they” show us the primary?
You can be sure of one thing.
It’s their fail-safe.
They’ll never show their hole card.
It’s THE GAME!
Once it’s known?
It’s GAME OVER!
BUT, not for those looking for an “honest” dealer.
Maybe, why other countries are looking to engineer their very own internet.
Like, their very own sovereign currency.
So it’s it is truly: Their Very Own Country.
Or. my very own copy of 1984; from the 1960’s.
Waaaay Before these digitista’s; hit the worldwide stage: Act 1, Scene 1, https://www.
Yes, it is all manipulated on the digital side, especially when it refers to our history. This is why I only trust documents that they can’t alter and read as many of these as I can. Here is a list of documents that can’t be altered without serious repercussions or without serious backlash: Treaties, Papal Bulls, Contracts and Supreme Court rulings. As Dr. Farrell points out, even the Constitution is fair game and I have personally seen various legal sites change the wording or leave out sections of important laws, policies, regulations, court rulings on their websites which might undermine their agenda or narrative. With AI, it will just flat out lie or put forth unverified nonsense.
Ai has been their “designated hitter”.
Their purposed fall guy: “It was the AI”.
What “they” won’t tell you:
“We should know!
After all; wee programmed it, to do just that!
“Their” narrative; is that the AI is doing this: ALL ON ITS OWN!
[just as it performed in the hidden trials].
Perfected in the Breakaway Civilization; before it’s, scheduled release date?
No hard copy. No accountability. As R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz states: “The Universe is neither an ‘imagination’ nor a ‘will,’ but a ‘projection’ of human consciousness.” The Temple of Man
An interesting series of events happened during hurricane Sandy in 2012. I was living in Greenpoint, Brooklyn at the time of the storm and working in downtown Manhattan for a Wall Street software firm. Hurricane Sandy flooded downtown Manhattan as well as the subway tunnels between Brooklyn and downtown Manhattan. As a result, every morning I would join a large flock of business suited penguins migrating north into Queens to take the subway into Manhattan since the local subway stations weren’t running. Two days after Hurricane Sandy, I read a back page WSJ article about the DTCC. The DTCC is the main depository and clearing house for US listed securities. The article stated that the day before Hurricane Sandy, an agent of the DTCC forgot to close the vault door to the DTCC depository in downtown Manhattan. As a result, the vault was flooded. The vault contained all of the paper stock and bond certificates that traded electronically (i.e. broker listed).
A few days later, another back page article in the WSJ gave an update on the flooded vault. It turns out that after the vault was drained and the paper certificates were spread out around the facility to dry, a fire broke out and all of the certificates were incinerated. But not to worry, the article stated, the DTCC had previously made digital copies of all of the paper certificates before the storm and could reproduce the paper certificates.
My first thought was that Hurricane Sandy was engineered to hide the destruction of these paper certificates. Having worked with Wall Street firms for close to 2 decades at the time, I had first hand knowledge of brokers who “created” new securities electronically on occasion when they had client orders that they could not fill from inventory or in the open market. I was told at the time that this standard procedure for most brokerage houses. So with the “fire” at the downtown depository of DTCC, there is now no way to accurately audit the outstanding shares of any publicly traded company in the US. Any firm or individual with access to official inventory / accounting software at DTCC can now create their own securities reality.
Which leads us to the recently passed Genius Act. This act will allow Banks to issue their own crypto currency. One of the assets that will back these bank stablecoins is the US Treasury Bond. Essentially this will allow .GOV to transfer the national debt over to the public via stablecoins. Just more debt but with electronic memes. Whatever happened to those 7 year debt jubilees that were rolled out in the ancient world so that the serfs could take their land back and begin producing food again? Do the central bankers really believe that AI and robotics can manage it all?
The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) §8-511(b) basically says that whoever holds the actual security has the highest claim to it. So, if you don’t hold your own stock certificates, then you are at risk for losing the security to the DTCC.
Interestingly, it gets worse with the DTCC. UCC §8-511(c), gives the DTCC the right to use the securities that are in your name as payment to creditors in the event of a bankruptcy. Turns out that we are just the “entitlement holder” of the security, and between us and the claims of the creditor, we lose.
Two works of fiction come to mind. Jasper Fforde’s Thursday next series, where she is a “literatec” police for the written word, where their work is to stop villains and grammacites from destroying the origin work, either by deletion or editing. Secondly, Farenheit 451 – updated for the digital age. Destroy all the paper originals, and the people who know the real content, and then the digital version will be “Truth”. With obvious consequences and obvious benefits in the current psychopathocracy.