All Roads Lead to Cornithaca – Page 21

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Because it’s difficult times” Bumper sticker

“When the times are tough; it’s TS to the little people” is a dictum that suits Tompkins County to a “T”. It’s a county that’s connected at the highest levels; and friends don’t let friends cut profits.

Being at the forefront of political doctrine means that using and taking is the foundation of their policy making. The County’s proclamations proudly announce the burdens and restrictions that are needed to ransom a great and “vibrant” future: All the serfs can do is duck their heads and bow their backs under the load.

In a different world; authorities would embrace compassion and human worth — today; they only embrace each other.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Inflexible Principles” Bumper sticker

There is big push these days to have “workarounds” for every principle that protects us from government tyranny and oppression.

Inflexible principles are not for the benefit of government; they’re for the benefit of the people.

The use of the distinction “greater;” puts the power in the hands of those who will make the decision – to the disadvantage of those who will not.

To put it simply: It would be for the greatest good of the people; not to have the legislative concept of “Greater Good.”

It’s “fool’s gold” for those blinded by their own greed.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Everybody knows who’s pulling the strings” Bumper sticker

“It’s the puppets who are in the shadows.” In Tompkins County; it’s a question that’s very much in people’s minds: “Who are the puppets?”

Some residents would say all of them. While this isn’t true; it would be a bad gamble to trust to chance.

Who is it “safe” to go to?

The helpful and cheerful rural personnel are being pushed out: replaced by those who resent public interference in their workday and workplace. Residents are only entitled to government. To be governed. To be helpless.

The people make no decisions – and the puppet show never stops.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “NYSDEC Water Quality Management” Bumper sticker

“Muddying the waters – with no intention of cleaning them.” My upcoming book: “Tompkins County and Tammany Hall” will document and expose the actions of the NYSDEC at some length – so I will speak to a recent development in New York State: the passing of an Environmental Rights Amendment that declares: “Each person shall have the right to clean air and water, and a healthful environment.” Agricultural groups, the biggest polluters of the state’s lakes and waterways, [and political overlords of the state’s poor rural communities] strongly opposed this Amendment.

The New York State Farm Bureau President made the kind of statement to voters that could only be made when there is no one to challenge it. Hot buttons like “vague Green Amendment,” and “protect family farms from nuisance lawsuits” were freely used – but there’s a world of rural pain and suffering behind the “Berlin Wall” agricultural media: when the toxic fumes of farming practices cause brain damage in one neighboring child, and required the removal of eyelids of an elderly man: “right-to-farm” laws protected the farmer from this “nuisance lawsuit.” That’s just one glimpse behind the wall — a wall the Environmental Rights Amendment threatens to tear down.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Global Warming is what we expect” Bumper sticker

“Global Destruction is what we get.” Global warming is always portrayed as something that will change your life; but not something that will end it. Science’s pride of always “leading us forward” leaves no room for the humility of stocktaking.

People often quote: “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing” – but the original saying was; “A little learning is a dangerous thing” — and with all their knowledge; “science” seems to have learned little from the disastrous miscalculations and unintended consequences of their past actions.

From “The Discovery of Global Warming”: “1986 Meltdown of reactor at Chernobyl (Soviet Union) cripples plans to replace fossil fuels with nuclear power” and “2011 Reaction to nuclear reactor disaster at Fukushima (Japan) ends hopes for a renaissance of nuclear power” – the dismissiveness of the loss of human life and million-year environmental recovery shown in this scientific historical viewpoint is only overshadowed by the certain repetition that the use of existing and future reactors would bring. How can “New and improved” protocols help? New and improved protocols were in place at Chernobyl and Fukushima — they’re plugging holes that are only discovered when they leak. Disastrously.

“Global Warming” may require more than sunscreen – you may need a submarine.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “This Frypan, Earth” Movie poster

“Inspired by Scientific Fact!” It’s a new deal in the fight against Global Warming – but the big players have already been shuffled to the bottom of the deck.

A psychologist once told me that doctors were taught arrogance at school. Now, all our “professionals” seem to have caught the bug. They have the pride of a child who feels in control because he or she has gotten the machine to move: without worrying about how to stop it.

The roles that government, business and, science have taken on for themselves is the same recipe used to plot monster and horror stories throughout the millennia — power, pride, greed, and victims.

Proponents of genetically modified and manipulated organisms, nano-technology, artificial intelligence, and more are bursting the unguarded safeguards of reason and caution. They’re itching to make their toys run – and have no idea how to stop them.

As our ability to start things far outstrips our understanding; and our power to effect change becomes world-class – the coming fall; may be the end for all.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Ingest” Logo

I deny that beer had anything to do with it. I was drinking a few beers, and thinking about the “microplastics” we eat; and the plastic pollution problem – and I had an idea:

Why don’t we eat all that plastic.

A little number crunching showed that 7.7 billion humans could consume all the plastic produced by eating only 3 1/2 ounces per person, per day – so I roughed out a campaign:

First was to expand the recycling behavior canon by adding the “Ingest” category logo that you see – “Reduce, Reuse, Ingest, Recycle” [Maybe it would be better to call it “re-ingest.”]

Next came some catchy promo phrases:

“Put your plastic where your mouth is.”

“Actions speak louder than burps.”

And of course: “You are what you eat.”

They used to say: “You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die.” – But now we can say: “You have to eat three tons of plastic before you die.”

As we enter the post-logic era of prioritization – eating our waste; means less waste:

“It’s all our shit anyway.”

And now that I think about it – it is a Global problem; and it was Imported beer.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Baby Daddy” Board Game Download

Six men are rumored on Facebook to be the father of the child. But only the one who best matches the DNA sequence by drawing the right cards and dodging the legal labyrinth will be able to move on to “Baby Daddy” status. [Requires a “standard” 52 card deck for moving player tokens.]

Download, print, cut out, and assemble the game board and tokens.

See “Downloads” page on the menu.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Village of the Damned Idiots” Movie poster

Can this happen in your town? It’s a parent’s worst nightmare! [Well, one of them – your kids playing lawn Jarts with unmedicated friends is right up there.] What if your children are unable to do anything for themselves? What if “taking care of your parents” meant giving them the COVID virus as soon as it was available?

What if they made “Return to the Village of the Damned Idiots”? – Hideous Brain Eating Zombies searching for where it is located.