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This is fantastic!! There's a saying on Capitol Hill that despite making global policy all politics is local.. the point is often overlooked with so many worldwide issues crushing down on us but important to remember that the true control is on the bottom & leverage when we seize it. If the campaign is a tiny bit as wonderful as the last album I'll await the day when we may have PM Liam!

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Thank you so much, Pamela. You're exactly right, and that doesn't just apply to government—organizations like Music BC are the ones who implement policies and stimulate change in their specific sector, for better or worse. We need good people occupying those leadership positions, and we need to be able to work together on the things we have in common!

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What a perfect position for you. There are a lot of things you can do, but this one is right now and fits your various studies from your whole life. Good luck!

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Thank you very much, Mathew! If I am elected, it would be the best opportunity to date to directly reconnect with the music scene I find myself so far away from post-2020. Fingers crossed!

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Wish I could vote for you! We need people with your listening and research skills in the arts! We need folks who have grown into the industry and recognize the unprecedented chamúllenles facing us as new technologies emerge and as regimes plummet in never being conflicts. My spirit is with you, brother!

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Thank you very much, Tonika! Your support means the world to me :)

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Good luck! 👍🏽

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Thank you very much :)

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Reach for the stars!

Rooting for you, I would love to see more organizations take on those with important insights from what we've all had to learn.

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Agreed! This is a big part of why I chose to go for it. Everybody has experienced the last few years in their own unique way, and it's vital to round out the representation if we intend to fix any of the problems that have manifested.

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God be with you brother! Let's DO this!

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Thanks very much, Mike!

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Of course, brother.

By the way, I think you once asked me for a brief on Chris Langan's CTMU, but at the time I didn't know of one available, so I just linked some of his papers and suggested skimming them.

I just sent the following to a friend. I usually don't trust anything I've written until after I review it, and this was off-the-cuff more or less, so don't hold me to it, but for a casual interpretation of the crux of the theory, it's roughly along the lines of my early understanding of it. I know you don't host RTE anymore, which I think was the original purpose (I think I'd proposed Langan as an interviewee), but this is a quick read and topical to me because I just sent it, so feel free to glance it over if it tickles your fancy!

It is difficult to summate a cutting-edge mathematico-logical treatise in a few pithy statements, and outside of the most meager depiction, near-impossible to do it proper justice in such a form. However, recognizing the closure of reality under the operation of effect or influence (anything real enough to affect reality would obviously be real, and therefore within reality), reality is a completely closed system thusly defined on its self-respondence (what reality doesn’t respond to can in no way be real). Therefore, self-respondent reality must fundamentally merit itself, to itself, insofar as it exists because it implicitly merits its own self-respondence. Reality’s fundamental principle cannot be reduced to parts simpler or aspects beyond this de facto interpretation of self-merit, as nothing lesser than or outside of it could be real. Terms like “interpretation” are rigorously defined in modern logic, likewise in the CTMU, but the natural understanding of the notion readily suffices for present purposes. After all, also illustrated in the CTMU is that the human mind must itself necessarily be an instance of reality’s fundament, so the self-interpretative merit that makes humans real to themselves and the fundamental self-merit which is principle to their ultimate reality can’t be fundamentally distinct, as everything within reality must be an instance of its fundamental self-meriting principle insofar as it is real. Lastly, as reality can’t be reduced to anything less than the entirety of its fundamental self-meriting principle, everything self-real within it (e.g. humans) is a contributive instance of the self-meriting principle’s ultimate self-definition (not unlike the relationship between ideas belonging to a mind, and the mind that is composed of and contains them).

In other words, quite in line with ancient theological/Biblical intuitions, human beings are (semiautonomous) images within and of the (comprehensively autonomous) Logos, or the Mind or Divine Reason of God. Logos, of course, was the term coined by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus to denote his realization of the pervading Mind or Reason of God in all structure. The term was later famously recruited to serve as the basis of the creation story, and in fact set as equivalent with God Himself, in John 1:1, the opening salvo of the John the Apostle, “the disciple Jesus loved.” (In English, Logos is usually translated as “the Word”.)

Langan's substack is https://chrislangan.substack.com

Best,

Mike

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Woah, this is robust! Thank you, I will give it a read.

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Feel free to let me know if it makes any sense lol

Best always, brother

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Please help bring back real percussion. Drummers were sidelined back in the 80's when drum machines became the thing and been stuck that way ever since. The heart and soul of the band left and never came back. All we've had since 80's new age/new wave is drummers emulating machines and drum loops and it's ubiquitously intransigent. Somehow can't ever seem to move on from it.

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