Being alone with your Self can be an uncomfortable experience — so can thinking.
“The World According to Doctrine” — A pebble in the unruffled pool of self-satisfaction
Tag: All Roads Lead to Cornithaca
“The World According to Doctrine” — A pebble in the unruffled pool: How many?
Humor is a wellspring of humanity – I refuse to be around those who are afraid to be splashed.
“The World According to Doctrine” — I have to get my ducks in an array
It used to be enough to get them in line – now, they need to be present and correct – each one a conforming element; in a planned position. One Thought – One Taught – One Voice – One Choice. One array — O.K.?
“The World According to Doctrine” — Undercover Party: “The Party’s Over”
The days of freedom are over. The piñata of public participation has only showered us with comment forms and bureaucratic feces. The thrill of eluding oppression has turned into a fear of the open sky: with no safe place to rest.
Everything is gray – without difference or distance – “The party’s over.”
“The World According to Doctrine” — “I’m Old, and you’re In the Way”
A second collage of selected bumper stickers from the “Cornithaca County” book – or could be used as wall art.
“The World According to Doctrine” — Bumper Stickers: “Less Space – More Fitting”
Revisiting bumper stickers in a more compact design – and hoping that people remember to read the fine print before signing off on anything.
“The World According to Doctrine” — Their favorite cover crop is bullshit
The Town of Lansing is about to turn the rural community into an AG Zoning District for the sole benefit of a handful of rich farmers. Non-farming residents [the poor 95%] have had all their land uses removed except for having a house – this will force them to sell all other land to famers; or face the regressive tax burdens of AG structured assessments. The rural community have had no meaningful participation, representation, or respect from the unilateral planning authorities.
This is how Progressive government works: the rich get richer – and the poor get stepped on . . . and demeaned . . . and disposed of
“The World According to Doctrine” — Agricultural Law
A picture may be worth a thousand words – but there are some pictures that the public doesn’t see.
Farmers are sometimes just referred to as the “rich people” in the poor rural communities. One dental technician told me that she knew the farmer crying for subsidies on television: he has a 40-ft yacht.
“Farm Friendly” doesn’t begin to describe the deliberately biased and un-equitable treatment that exists in the rich farmer – poor unrepresented and disposable “non-farmer” rural communities.
Agricultural Law protects farming; like beheadings protect a tyrant.
“The World According to Doctrine” — Ithaca: the place where everybody wants to live
Ithaca is the place where everybody wants to live: because it’s the only place in the county where people have individual worth.
While Ithaca rules the county – it never leads by example. Their plan to blanket rural Lansing with CAFOs is balanced by their own petition to the New York State Supreme Court: enumerating serious concerns about lack of CAFO and Agricultural regulation and oversight, lack of disclosure, and the possible effects of modern farming practices on their own residents and the their own town’s environment. Lansing’s puppet government has expressed no concerns at all.
Ithaca is Camelot: A castle community where people dump their slop on the unprotected commoners outside the walls – without a second thought.
Where would you want to live?
“The World According to Doctrine” — Their policies just connect the dots
Policy making in Tompkins County is a purely mechanical process: every outcome is decided before the issue is revealed.
The round of comments, and meetings and surveys is only a meaningless backfill for an edifice whose foundations have already been laid.
The “meeting” for a radical zoning change for the rural Lansing community is called an “Open House” – a PR phrase for an exclusionary paradigm shift that denied that same rural community any participation in its planning.
When you connect all the dots — it’s a picture of money.