Today, in a word, is dull. The endless flashy parade of entitlement is no more than a freight train that holds you up at the crossing.
It’s time for old people to shrug off the soporific talk, talk, talk, advocacy that led to so many pandemic deaths; and get confrontational.
When you’ve done so much; it’s annoying to be treated as so little.
It’s hardly a problem in logic; but it’s a problem with our society. Not the self-serving lying — but the attitude that everything ends with you.
Compassion is no longer something that binds the community together; it’s something that flows from designated sources and institutions, and only to those who are considered worthy.
The “Us” of our current administration, like the “We” of previous royalty, does not refer to all; but to a single authority that rules all.
When told “we” have to make sacrifices; the first thought is not “what,” but “who?”
It was like that when you moved in — and will it be any better when you move out?
Power AND Control: that’s why authorities are authorizing Form Based Code Planning as their template for the future. Controlling behavior through controlling the environment is the sterile dream of Operant Conditioning and “Skinner Box” societies.
Form Based Code proponents are very much like their Code: intolerant of anything different, and gaining power from an intransigent authority.
You’re not some misplaced “square peg in a round hole”; there are no “square holes” — so you’ll just have to fit.
Urban Colonialism is not a term you’re likely to hear in our city-centric media; or from smug “form based” futurists.
Rural people are a backwards people whose lives [and lands] are being improved; because, like the natives in other colonizations: keeping their culture is not worth considering.
The deeper you look the more parallels you will find — but who cares?
TDML is one of those concepts that clearly points to the direction we are heading; it sets an acceptable level to act that should never be acceptable at all.
This is the perfect bureaucratic policy because it accepts inaction and paperwork as the solution to society’s ills.
We used to cringe at the dark logic of “10 to 20 million killed, tops” — Today that sort of thinking is standard government practice.
Short rhyming poems for children. This book, like Cornithaca County, will contain a number of activities and games that children can participate in; or be used in lessons. Besides, rhymes are fun at all ages.
In the days before air bags; when strong chassis added to an out-of-the-car experience: everyone knew that shit happens — they just didn’t say “shit” in public. Now, with all the power of a flaking metallic, V-8 powered, pyroclastic cloud of an “aircraft carrier” [with 85,000 miles on the odometer] it’s time for Seniors to roar back. You don’t have to say “shit” to do shit.
The rhythm of the sticker message brings back a song from the 60s; and like the song; all we’re getting is “disrespect.”
State and County vaccination data is only displayed in terms of “race” and “ethnicity” — and yet New York’s elderly is a minority group that comprises 85% of state’s COVID deaths —— why won’t they show age related data for deaths and vaccinations? Because they’re not supposed to.
Corruption doesn’t have to be about money; it can be about power — New York State’s corrupt power brokering relies on control of the people; and that requires a program of omission, revision, or suppression of all conflicting information. Wouldn’t you like to see the memos that instruct public employees to do this?
Corruption and evil do not grow and thrive in the light of disclosure and exposure — they scheme for non-disclosure and the reimagined righteousness of self-interest.
“Equitable” policy is a denial of human worth. It’s a proclamation by the rich and powerful that they will now decide who you are and what you can be. You disagree? Let’s debate it in the revealing light of Full Disclosure and Full Exposure: if there was nothing to hide; it wouldn’t be secret.
This series of bumper stickers will tie into a number of themes in the book. I use COVID-19 pandemic as a social tool; an acid test that can reveal more by what it doesn’t affect then what it does. It reveals a glaring lack of compassion in a state whose governor places political doctrine and self-serving policy making above human worth.
In his daily executive updates; Cuomo always has a phrase — never featured; just a tag-line to a bunch of statistics.
“Sadly, we lost 57 New Yorkers to the virus.” “Sadly, we lost 61 New Yorkers to the virus.” “Sadly, we lost 49 New Yorkers to the virus.” New York’s unidentified elderly.
No more important than dripping faucet. An annoying background noise to the political agenda that eventually gets shut out by the brain.
I started to add them up. 6,047 since January 13th — 6,047 Human Beings. Maybe 6,100 by tomorrow. Drip . . . drip . . . drip . . .