All Roads Lead to Cornithaca – Page 17

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “The Ship of State 2022” Bumper sticker

A neighbor of mine once said: “I’m the only one around here that works.” There was a lot of truth in that.

Our government not only takes from the present, and takes from the future – but with their attack on Social Security: they want to take from the past as well.

Our economy is just a scam: a ‘take gold from seawater’ scheme that will leave us all rich – if we started out even richer.

My neighbor is retiring now: and watching everything he worked for being sucked down into a sinkhole of government policy.

Our government needs to escape the scene of their crimes; “Tell the workers to ‘row harder!’”

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “COVID in the USA” Bumper sticker

Compassion is just another piece of “we are the change” vaporware. The only rising tide our elderly felt during the Pandemic; left them struggling to keep their heads above water – or not.

Our “Better Nature” has become a fold-out brochure – no more than a media promo spot – a marketing tool. And not to be confused with “truth in advertising.”

The elderly are “Victims” — and in our stratified future: you can’t change your label.

Only our government can do that – or not.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “They don’t take responsibility” Bumper sticker

Tompkins County is a government that believes it has the right to “balance the burdens” on residents as they choose – and responds to accusations of hubris and evidence of dictatorial policy making by just claiming that they are not.

They and their cronies are never at fault; it’s always someone else’s fault — and probably your fault — and they always need more money, and more power, and more control to get us out of this trouble.

Tompkins County: the views of some forced on everyone — at a cost.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Everyone will be treated the same” Bumper sticker

“In Biden’s Society: Everyone will be treated the same – disposable.” If the lowest common denominator is non-existence; our government is pressing all Human worth and dignity into a vast plane of nothingness.

Their assertions of “equality” are only hypocritical lip-service: after establishing that the promotion of certain social actions are “more important” than principles or rights; our government then proceeded to add corporations, unions, and race, gender, and ethnicity, along with powerful special interests to this “more important” constellation that will guide us to the Promised Land.

Importance has become the mark of the new nobility – a coat of arms ensuring constant profit “without let or hindrance” by ethics or legitimacy.

Everyone WILL be treated the same – it’s just that some of us are no longer “everyone” — they’re “Important.”

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Rise of the Evil Ones” – “Separate but Equal”

It’s the same scam you see everywhere today: We’re all together [so we’re part of the same community] – but we’re categorized differently [so we don’t get the same treatment.] It’s a world of users and losers.

Rural people whose families have lived there for five generations; are marginalized by a high-tax, urban sprawl bedroom community – whose transient [and more affluent] families only plan to maximize their benefits and then move.

Tompkins County policy making exemplifies the kind of diversity that results in concentration camps. We’re all in this together . . . just different sides of the fence.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Rise of the Evil Ones” – “Empowering Local Government”

We have traveled back in time. We are living under a government with all the powers and privileges of royalty, of dictators . . . of secret police.

Well; aren’t we living “under” a government that has those powers? Haven’t “we” given that government the power to collectively and selectively oppress us? However they want. As long as they want. In secret.

And doesn’t the use of this power permeate their every policy and attitude.

We are blinded by the vision of what we are owed by others – not what we owe to everybody. The vision of an adolescent. “Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee” We’re off to the Island of Empowerment.

Rise of the Evil Ones. They have great needs — work harder.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Rise of the Evil Ones” – “The Hate Reflex”

Like MSG or Microplastics – it’s a part of our diet: Hate.

It’s a fog that clings, glistens on the skin; and hides in its own shadow.

In a world without love and compassion – there is nothing but hate to fill the emptiness.

For a better world: would you hate those to blame, or fill it with love?

The future is a place of choices — many choices; many futures.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Rise of the Evil Ones” – New Phrase: “Information Cul-de-sac”

The complacency of not thinking; is only surpassed by the dangers.

The stories of people who believe they will retain authority; while giving up responsibility – show how often this myth has been sadly revealed as wishful thinking.

It’s only by accepting the responsibility of thinking; that we can remain free of oppression — and that requires access to everyone’s ideas.

The comfort of intellectual complacency; is only one plot away from the silence of the grave.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Rise of the Evil Ones” – New Definition: “Underwriter”

You don’t need anyone to tell you the right thing to do – that’s why we need “underwriters” to convince us to do otherwise.

I frequently think of the Moody Blues lyric; “How one thought can live provide the others die” – and how it encapsulates our modern “One Thought” Doctrine: where the action of endlessly “underwriting” one way of thinking; is paired with unceasing attempts to destroy every other.

In Authoritarian governments like ours: Everybody talks about oppression, but nobody does anything about it — not if they know what’s good for them. It’s a Victim’s Fault society; and the victims “put themselves at risk” by being “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

A strangely disclaiming statement from a government that has gained its power through claiming it can fix everything. But a little “underwriting” can fix that too.