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“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Not” Again
Month: March 2021
“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “BEFORE you go out” Poster
It’s not surprising how easily COVID posters can be converted to cautionary proclamations. The restrictions used for the eradication of a virus and the eradication of an idea are very much the same.
And a vaccine performs a similar function to indoctrination in building resistance to an outside influence.
Even the policies that emphasize isolating and tracking down the source share a common fear: loss of control.
“For the greater good” is the tyrant’s slogan of the new century. While the “good” is something that the people can decide among themselves, this “greater good” seems to require an overarching and overriding control — and the kind of authority that glories in it.
“Full Disclosure – Full Exposure” of government policies and statistics leads to thinking. Thinking leads to questioning; and questioning leads to freedom.
How much does your government like to be questioned?
“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “PROCTORS” Card Game Advertisement
“It’s not revenge; it’s Justice.”
In a time when the wildest performances adhere to convention as clingingly as the safest Salon painting; being different is more than just a target of repression — it’s the object of envy.
The “PROCTORS” Card Game lets you get back at those whose courage makes you feel small; and with some serious vicarious teeth.
It’s like a hanging in effigy; when you’re safe in the crowd.
Coming Soon.
“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – Cornithaca Billboards – “Come GROW with Us”
Big government only seems to be comfortable with big players. This “big” does not refer to its size, but to its scope and its partners: A small town government may aspire to “bigness” through its connection to larger powers; and the control this leverages in the lives of the residents.
Cornithaca’s government is an interlocking structure comprised of Institutions, Corporations, and Non-profits; with no meaningful participation by the people.
We are told we should be grateful that we are allowed to speak at public meetings, and live among such forward looking and benevolent guidance.
We have no choice.
“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “message”
Scary? It depends on who’s calling.
Society is no longer about people: it’s about government. That’s why governments [and the people who control them] have been rolling up all power and decision making into one place.
Artificial Intelligence may replace you; but it can’t replace the greed and ambition that drive it . . . yet.
Scary.
“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “TIME TO GO”
Whether it comes through experience, listening to stories, or just animal awareness — one of the best survival skills is knowing when it’s time to go. And not wasting any time doing it.
New Word – “Equitabullshit”
“Equitable” is actually a denial of human worth, and a proclamation that those in authority have the sole right to divide and decide the rights of others — even the right to live.
To the people who claim that there is a “greater justice”: if this justice can be apportioned by the dictates of the rich and powerful; how can you claim there is any justice at all?
“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “True Light Blocking Glasses”
Apps that direct you to sites that only reinforce what you already believe, automatic rejection of conflicting information as “Fake News” or “Fake Video,” all non-conforming thought condemned without debate — the pieces are all there — putting them together is just around the corner.
Build them a concentration camp; and they will come.
“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – EASY MAZE – “Housing Maze”
“Cornithaca County” uses the concept of “US” as a way for the Elite to move their burdens onto the backs of others.
Even though Ithaca is one of the most expensive cities in the country to live in; it retains its neighborhoods of wood frame houses and surrounds itself with large tracts of “conservation spaces;” while pushing thousands of housing units into the meadows and fields of outlying rural communities and creating Urban “Nodes.”
The County’s latest Comprehensive Plan doesn’t mention “urban sprawl” once.
“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “HIT•FALL – The Municipal Adventure”
Bureaucracy’s no mystery
It’s unchanged throughout history
With power, privilege, and with wealth
It works to keep them for itself.