Say it and forget it; stick it and regret it. Bumper stickers can say a lot of things, and can be put on for a lot of reasons, but there’s one thing they have in common; they’re difficult to take off.
Cornithaca is a place where rich non-profits decry the materialism of working people all the way to the bank; and “lip service” is another name for a convocation of policy makers.
It’s a place where non-conforming people and ideas are targeted in a servile media; while intellectual lemmings attack and attack with mindless ferocity.
In a county where “user-ism” has replaced activism; profiting in a very material way from public policy has become a way of life.
Their burden is the weight of rulership; ours is to carry their sedan chairs.
No concept could be scarier to today’s secular elite. The selective disclosure of information to legitimize elitist policy making is the stepping stone to their “greater good” dictatorship: a “Black Box” Bureaucracy of power and control.
I used to satirize this society by saying that the only rights left will be the right to be a victim and the right to be poor. This isn’t true — they’ll decide that as well.
If the last election and its aftermath has taught us anything; it’s that if you’re not confrontational; you’re nothing.
Those that were confrontational and violent are being showered with privileges and media promotion; those that were not are just fodder for the Sacrifice Grinder.
Use this generic bumper sticker as an attitude setting giveaway for your group’s confrontational launch.
Remember: “If you don’t make the list; you’ll never be missed.”
Today, in a word, is dull. The endless flashy parade of entitlement is no more than a freight train that holds you up at the crossing.
It’s time for old people to shrug off the soporific talk, talk, talk, advocacy that led to so many pandemic deaths; and get confrontational.
When you’ve done so much; it’s annoying to be treated as so little.
It’s hardly a problem in logic; but it’s a problem with our society. Not the self-serving lying — but the attitude that everything ends with you.
Compassion is no longer something that binds the community together; it’s something that flows from designated sources and institutions, and only to those who are considered worthy.
The “Us” of our current administration, like the “We” of previous royalty, does not refer to all; but to a single authority that rules all.
When told “we” have to make sacrifices; the first thought is not “what,” but “who?”
It was like that when you moved in — and will it be any better when you move out?
Power AND Control: that’s why authorities are authorizing Form Based Code Planning as their template for the future. Controlling behavior through controlling the environment is the sterile dream of Operant Conditioning and “Skinner Box” societies.
Form Based Code proponents are very much like their Code: intolerant of anything different, and gaining power from an intransigent authority.
You’re not some misplaced “square peg in a round hole”; there are no “square holes” — so you’ll just have to fit.
Urban Colonialism is not a term you’re likely to hear in our city-centric media; or from smug “form based” futurists.
Rural people are a backwards people whose lives [and lands] are being improved; because, like the natives in other colonizations: keeping their culture is not worth considering.
The deeper you look the more parallels you will find — but who cares?
TDML is one of those concepts that clearly points to the direction we are heading; it sets an acceptable level to act that should never be acceptable at all.
This is the perfect bureaucratic policy because it accepts inaction and paperwork as the solution to society’s ills.
We used to cringe at the dark logic of “10 to 20 million killed, tops” — Today that sort of thinking is standard government practice.
Short rhyming poems for children. This book, like Cornithaca County, will contain a number of activities and games that children can participate in; or be used in lessons. Besides, rhymes are fun at all ages.