Like the State’s ethnicity profiling; that demeaningly describes people by what they are not — the New York’s political profiling describes rural communities as; “not of any importance.”
And as the state’s city-centric elite increasingly find uses for rural land; an Urban Colonialist policy is used to marginalize and dispossess the native rural population.
If you don’t make the list; you’ll never be missed.
Some musical comedies don’t get old — especially with a story line of the common people rising against those who have unlawfully usurped power and are now fighting among themselves for ascendancy.
How would you advertise “Quake: The Musical”? With bulleted text, of course. Bloody brilliant.
“Equitable” is a bureaucratic term for “We’ll decide who is worthy of being helped.” If more than four-fifths of the state’s COVID deaths were among its vulnerable elderly; how can it “equitable” to deliberately reroute the vaccine to a much younger and healthier population?
Cuomo claims that this decision is guided by the historical plight of “underserved” communities in New York City: but ignores the needs of the state’s historically even more underserved rural communities. Would anyone allow an Urban Community to be told by municipal planners that they “don’t deserve to live there,” and to be excluded from any participation or importance in their own future?
This is the sort of policy making that happens routinely, unchecked and unreported, in rural New York State.
“Equitable” and “underserved” are part of a future that appears more like “Lord of the Flies” than a Peaceable Kingdom.
They are terms that define a government that searches; not for a greater compassion — but for a greater control.
This is a cautionary takeaway. Doctrine holders have been conditioned to react to any questioning or opposition with denial, entitlement, hate, and verbal/physical violence.
For some; violence is always the first choice.
Keep your lines of retreat clear.
Their doctrine fights the people’s right to think and to be free. They won’t debate but only hate all those who disagree.
It was in the late 50s when I ordered a civil war set from a comic book ad. There were an amazing number of pieces for the price; but the ad had drawings that showed the actual size, so I was reassured. A small cardboard box arrived. It contained the advertised number of pieces of the advertised size — in embossed, flat plastic with little feet to keep them from falling over.
It was my desire that had turned them into the unaffordable object of my dreams
More than half-a-century later; politicians are presenting monolithic regulations like Form Based Codes as solutions to the complexities of human interaction.
The only truth behind these presentations is that government will gain considerably more power in deciding how people will live. That it will be used for our benefit is only the product of our dreams.
The best way to control the people is to have them control themselves.
Today’s society of privilege and hate uses both the carrot and the stick to make its donkeys carry the load: with a fear directed hate replacing all thought, and those privileged; climbing the backs of those who are drowning beneath them.
If you give up the protection of the individual against a government’s tyranny and oppression; then you give up that protection for all individuals — everyone. A “greater good” policy may be enacted against you, or your children. Actually, you can count on it.
Where are these “oppressors”?
They’re always here, fool!
Even though 84% of New York’s COVID deaths were aged 65 years and older, and its administration is being investigated for its handling of Nursing Homes during the pandemic; State and County governments still treat these vulnerable elderly residents as a demographic not worth bothering about, or even bothering to mention.
New York’s only “Vaccine Demographic Data” is displayed on their website by the percentage of “Race & Ethnicity” and categorized by “region”: without any population data to distinguish between New York City [42% of the state’s population], and the Southern Tier [2%] — there is no age related information disclosed for any of those vaccinated.
I searched 28 of Cuomo’s “NYS Coronavirus Updates” from 1/13 to 2/23 for “elderly” and “senior”: and the only found the mention of “senior residents” receiving vaccine; as part of a NYCHA vaccination program.
On February 20th; we received a mailing from the County’s Health Department telling the “over 65” population to get vaccinations; but stressing that they do not block or make appointments, they won’t put you on a waiting list, or give advance notice of clinic locations, and advising that you should “ask a trusted family member or friend to assist.”
The motto on the envelope read “Aging Better, Together”
As we enter an age of Lies and Lubyankas: Conforming has never been such an important survival skill. Fortunately, there will be no lack of instruction . . . and instructors.
Patterns can reveal; but they can also be used to hide. Sometime the focus is kept narrow so that the larger pattern cannot be seen.
“Full Disclosure – Full Exposure” is a policy that has the promise of allowing the public examine all the factors that should be involved in any government decision making process.
This idea is not welcomed.
“How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” — Abraham Lincoln
Have you ever noticed how the more dictatorial the government; the more beneficent the terms they use to describe their self-serving policies?
Today’s autocrats use the pretense of a “greater goodness” to cover the undeniable evil of their actions. And an insistence that they are leading us to a better place; to calm our uneasiness that their path leads in the opposite direction.
You don’t need anyone to tell you the right thing to do; but you need a government to tell you that it’s wrong to do it.
How many legs does an inequitable and unfair government policy have to stand on?
Two. Yours.