This poem is dedicated to the Autocrats who run our lives, those who aspire to that position, and those live off the scraps. You don’t believe it? When’s the last time you were ever asked [or allowed] to have any meaningful participation in policy making?
Author: dougabaird@earthlink.net
“PROCTORS” Card Game: Free Printable Download
The download includes printable PROCTORS card game instructions and all card and color designs. A page of card backs is included for double-sided printing.
“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “PROCTORS” Game Cards 4
The three last card designs from the “Proctor” card game. Repression, suspicion, and corruption are integral parts of any authoritarian government; and an everyday occurrence in Cornithaca County.
“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “PROCTORS” Game Cards 3
Four more card designs from the “Proctor” card game – including Wild and Wild Draw Four card designs.
“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “PROCTORS” Game Cards 2
Here are four more card designs from the “Proctor” card game. The book will include pages for scanning/copying/printing every card in all four colors; with a card back page for double-sided fun.
“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “PROCTORS” Game Cards
Here are four card designs from the “Proctor” card game: it’s a shedding-type card game where the object is to dispose of all the non-conforming people.
“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Not” Again
All the insight is in the reader.
“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.