Paradigm Shifts – The importance of selfishness (An antidotal story of the DMV)
©2015 KLD
On November 22nd 2014 I took my vehicle to a STAR smog station. Every two years in California you have to, by government regulations, verify that the vehicle you own is not polluting more than the government limit.
My vehicle, my property, was inspected, prodded, and generally treated like a sick patient. It was put on a set of rollers, where the engine was revved. At the end of this intrusion and devaluation of my property by the state, I was told that my vehicle passed the arbitrary test. I paid, was given a physical receipt and left, with the knowledge that the DMV would receive an electronic copy of my verified certification of passing from the STAR smog station.
The next day I used the DMV website and paid my registration. The screen warned me that my smog cert was still due and it instructed me to be patient. It could take up to a week for the electronic certification to arrive at their door, apparently.
December arrived and like most people I was busy with the holiday season. I left the State for more than two weeks and had no access to my mail. I figured the wheels of government would send me something to ensure that I was okay with their definitions of ownership and send me the necessary sticker and registration paperwork.
It did not happen.
No letter. No mail. Nothing from the DVM. I went to Kinko’s and made copies of everything and mailed it to the DMV the first week of January. I did eventually get a letter back from the DMV. It arrived Feb 9th, 2015.
I must use the term ‘letter’ as loosely as I can, for what I received back was very different than what I sent to them.
What I sent was:
What I received back:
They didn't send anything back that explained the situation. They did not send back anything that gave details. The only useful thing that they sent was the copy of past smog checks.
This document, as I described it, was a print out from the internet. At the top was a field where my VIN number was entered, and below that was a table with three rows and three columns. The very last row showed that in 2010 I had a smog check, it had a “P” in the outcome field, and a verification number. The middle row showed that I had a test in 2012, again with the “P” and again with the verification number. The top row showed that I had a smog check on 11/22/2014, it too had the “P”, but, no verification code.
It appears, then, that the DMV refuses to renew my registration because their computer did not give them a code. Mind you, their computer did in fact recognize that my vehicle passed a test on 11/22/2014. Their computer verified that I had in fact been at a STAR smog station and taken a test and that my vehicle had passed it, only they were missing a code.
Only if there was paperwork that would have shown that I was actually there, on that day. Oh, wait, I mailed that paperwork to them. Conveniently, they just threw it away.
This means, that a DMV employee, whom had access to not only the fact that I took a smog check and had the necessary validation of the test in physical paper chose not to validate it against the paperwork but instead just printed out a copy of my VIN tests and re-mailed the request for me to take care of the registration.
A Paradigm is an epistemological notion where concepts are so entrenched as to be impossible to alter. This means, that the people involved in the concept are not even aware that they are participating in the notion, because if they were, they would be able to see other possible outlets and possible views on how to get to the proper ends, without using the concepts accepted means.
Our paradigm of government, especially in the use of Agencies, is built in such a fashion as to make the responsibility of action the duty of the individual, instead of being an agency that the individual holds control over, the agency holds dominion over the individual.
For example, if I own a piece of property and wish to have a house built on that property, I would hire an architect. His job would be to design and ensure the building of my home. I would expect, that he would take my intended house ideas and design/build something based on my expectations. He would be responsible for choosing wood and metal. He would be responsible for anything to do with the outcome of why I hired him. This is the expected truth of any agent one hires to do a task for them. From personal shoppers to Lawyers. The individual hires said agents because they have skills and time that the individual cannot or does not have.
Why is it then that we are told that we are the government by action of participation in the vote or by relevance of patriotisms, but those agencies We The People hire, do not in fact take up the same paradigm that we individuals apply to other Agencies?
In my example above about the DMV, why is it the agent, who I pay by forced taxation to represent me in matters of vehicle registration, did not look at the paperwork and make an educated guess about the outcome of the smog check? Why is it, even if it was still questionable, the agent did not call the smog location and validate the test was passed? Why is it, that the agent did not ask the IT people what happened to the verification?
Instead the DMV agent, my employee by the theft of my income as taxation, washed their hands of the whole thing. Who do they think they are? The answer is simply, they do not believe they work for us. They do not believe they answer to us. They do not believe they have any obligation to us. They are not accountable to us.
It would have taken the DMV agent five minutes to review the paperwork I sent. Now, instead, I have to take time out of my day to drive back to the smog place and ask them to verify and resubmit their check, possible even pay again for another check. I then have to take time out of my day and either spend four hours on the phone with the DMV or as much as twelve hours at the DMV to fix something a DMV agent could have fixed in less time that it took me to write this blog post.
This whole experience should make it clear, that we need to re-establish an idea of individualism. To shift the view of ownership of self away from government agencies and back to the person, for if the agent does not answer to those that hire them, then who is really the agent and whom the boss?
On November 22nd 2014 I took my vehicle to a STAR smog station. Every two years in California you have to, by government regulations, verify that the vehicle you own is not polluting more than the government limit.
My vehicle, my property, was inspected, prodded, and generally treated like a sick patient. It was put on a set of rollers, where the engine was revved. At the end of this intrusion and devaluation of my property by the state, I was told that my vehicle passed the arbitrary test. I paid, was given a physical receipt and left, with the knowledge that the DMV would receive an electronic copy of my verified certification of passing from the STAR smog station.
The next day I used the DMV website and paid my registration. The screen warned me that my smog cert was still due and it instructed me to be patient. It could take up to a week for the electronic certification to arrive at their door, apparently.
December arrived and like most people I was busy with the holiday season. I left the State for more than two weeks and had no access to my mail. I figured the wheels of government would send me something to ensure that I was okay with their definitions of ownership and send me the necessary sticker and registration paperwork.
It did not happen.
No letter. No mail. Nothing from the DVM. I went to Kinko’s and made copies of everything and mailed it to the DMV the first week of January. I did eventually get a letter back from the DMV. It arrived Feb 9th, 2015.
I must use the term ‘letter’ as loosely as I can, for what I received back was very different than what I sent to them.
What I sent was:
- A copy of the registration paper work from the DMV (the whole sheet)
- The tear off sheet that you normally mail to the DMV showing the VIN and the amount due.
- The STAR smog center receipt of payment.
- The STAR smog center receipt of test --- all the details of the test.
- A copy of the transaction information from the internet registration process.
- A physical letter describing my issue.
What I received back:
- 1. The tear off sheet - that I sent
- My physical letter - that I sent
- A copy of all past smog checks, that was a small table showing three things: the date the test was taken, the outcome of the test (Passed), and a verification code.
They didn't send anything back that explained the situation. They did not send back anything that gave details. The only useful thing that they sent was the copy of past smog checks.
This document, as I described it, was a print out from the internet. At the top was a field where my VIN number was entered, and below that was a table with three rows and three columns. The very last row showed that in 2010 I had a smog check, it had a “P” in the outcome field, and a verification number. The middle row showed that I had a test in 2012, again with the “P” and again with the verification number. The top row showed that I had a smog check on 11/22/2014, it too had the “P”, but, no verification code.
It appears, then, that the DMV refuses to renew my registration because their computer did not give them a code. Mind you, their computer did in fact recognize that my vehicle passed a test on 11/22/2014. Their computer verified that I had in fact been at a STAR smog station and taken a test and that my vehicle had passed it, only they were missing a code.
Only if there was paperwork that would have shown that I was actually there, on that day. Oh, wait, I mailed that paperwork to them. Conveniently, they just threw it away.
This means, that a DMV employee, whom had access to not only the fact that I took a smog check and had the necessary validation of the test in physical paper chose not to validate it against the paperwork but instead just printed out a copy of my VIN tests and re-mailed the request for me to take care of the registration.
A Paradigm is an epistemological notion where concepts are so entrenched as to be impossible to alter. This means, that the people involved in the concept are not even aware that they are participating in the notion, because if they were, they would be able to see other possible outlets and possible views on how to get to the proper ends, without using the concepts accepted means.
Our paradigm of government, especially in the use of Agencies, is built in such a fashion as to make the responsibility of action the duty of the individual, instead of being an agency that the individual holds control over, the agency holds dominion over the individual.
For example, if I own a piece of property and wish to have a house built on that property, I would hire an architect. His job would be to design and ensure the building of my home. I would expect, that he would take my intended house ideas and design/build something based on my expectations. He would be responsible for choosing wood and metal. He would be responsible for anything to do with the outcome of why I hired him. This is the expected truth of any agent one hires to do a task for them. From personal shoppers to Lawyers. The individual hires said agents because they have skills and time that the individual cannot or does not have.
Why is it then that we are told that we are the government by action of participation in the vote or by relevance of patriotisms, but those agencies We The People hire, do not in fact take up the same paradigm that we individuals apply to other Agencies?
In my example above about the DMV, why is it the agent, who I pay by forced taxation to represent me in matters of vehicle registration, did not look at the paperwork and make an educated guess about the outcome of the smog check? Why is it, even if it was still questionable, the agent did not call the smog location and validate the test was passed? Why is it, that the agent did not ask the IT people what happened to the verification?
Instead the DMV agent, my employee by the theft of my income as taxation, washed their hands of the whole thing. Who do they think they are? The answer is simply, they do not believe they work for us. They do not believe they answer to us. They do not believe they have any obligation to us. They are not accountable to us.
It would have taken the DMV agent five minutes to review the paperwork I sent. Now, instead, I have to take time out of my day to drive back to the smog place and ask them to verify and resubmit their check, possible even pay again for another check. I then have to take time out of my day and either spend four hours on the phone with the DMV or as much as twelve hours at the DMV to fix something a DMV agent could have fixed in less time that it took me to write this blog post.
This whole experience should make it clear, that we need to re-establish an idea of individualism. To shift the view of ownership of self away from government agencies and back to the person, for if the agent does not answer to those that hire them, then who is really the agent and whom the boss?
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