Innovation Begins at the Roots

Analyzing the language of politicians

Imagine by Jeremy Beck Unsplash, everything else by Mackenzie Andersen on Andersendesign.biz

The Maine Legislature declared itself in charge of innovation and is collecting data that will go into its master plan for controlling every aspect of Maine society.

As the state dialogues with institutions possessing concentrated wealth. What else is new? Is this innovation? Or is innovation just another word for exploitation?

If the state were innovative, it would be capable of including Andersen Design, but it is incapable of engaging outside the box of its enforced conformity to the state’s targeted sector, and whenever the government is in charge, that means painted with a wide brush, not taking in the nuances. Within the corporate structure governed by closed circles of the power elite, thinking does not venture outside the walls maintained by central management. The state has eyes only for prefabs.

Andersen Design can still be a leader in handcrafted manufacturing, which will become more sought after as the world is inundated with prefab, prefab everywhere.

In 1976, the corporate state of Maine was established as “an essential government function,” a term that sounds vaguely impressive but is undefined in the Maine statutes, a term that innovates on the Maine Constitution.