New Age Pyramids
About: circular key of the trigrams & hexagrams
- The population of the US is < 400,000,000
- a tree of people each of whom knew 12 other people & those people knew 12 other people etc on down the line would only have to grow to a depth less than 8 to cover the entire population. i.e. 12 to the 8th power is 429,981,696. Other numbers can be calculated. Trees of only 6 people would have to rise to a depth of less than 12.
- Another way to say that is that your political power could be 8 degrees of separation from the elected representatives.
While you may feel isolated now, you could be more connected & have your representatives more responsive.
Actually the formula is more like a pyramid club. You have to add one to the formula for yourself in: sum 12^n, n=1 to 8 , i.e. which is enough to cover the US population. That means you only have to use 8 circles to do the job.
If you find knowing 12 people too hard then perhaps your inner circle might be only 7 people then
which is enough to cover the US population. That means you only have to use 8 circles to do the job.
If you find knowing 12 people too hard then perhaps your inner circle might be only 7 people then
which is enough to cover the US population. That means you only have to use 8 circles to do the job.
If you find knowing 12 people too hard then perhaps your inner circle might be only 7 people then
, 10 circles deep,which is slightly over the US population. You can experiment more with the links given above. A circle of only two people which models the binary picture in the about link for the item would be about 28 deep as
but concentric circles 27 deep is given by ~~~~~~~~
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which is less than the US population of
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The point is to look at the numbers of exact representation & then move in the direction of creating something that works better than the stuff of the politics we have now. Apparently wolfram's jpegs only last a little while so I have to scrape the results & store them as jpegs.
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Me i favor the way this happens the open souce technical arena: anyone can step forward and actually implement anything and those who do, specify the rules. What thrives and survives becomes what works and becomes a defacto standard. Frequently very open discussion by stakes holders precedes implementation. I wish the political arena would find some way of informing itself from the technical arena.
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Lead, Follow or Get out of the way
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If you want something done you have to do it yourself
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A Little Huckleberry Finn - whitwashing the fence (Solstice celebrations etc)
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Anyone could lead a meeting - some better than others (You & I)
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Some people are better at dealing with external governments than others like the landlord, the city, the fire department & the police.
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The main point would be to get the government out of the way. In the Gulf, lots of volunteers showed up to clean up the oil & lots of reporters wanted to document it, but were forbidden to do it because the government had to appear to be in charge. The larger the government grows the larger this problem will become. I think that men of good will will eventually do the right things & choose to coordinate their efforts (just as in the open source community). The notion of Open Source Government just springs to mind!! OTOH, you want to remove the word government out of the equation.

which is greater than the US Population for a while.



A budget deficit occurs when an entity spends more money than it takes in.[1] The opposite of a budget deficit is a budget surplus.
So by these numbers it will take more than a trillion people (using the circle of circles model) to pay it off at a $1 each. Obviously when you have only 312 million & considerably fewer tax payers it will shove the circles closer to the center with a higher amount each.













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