“The real tragedy of these small enclaves of marginality and poverty is that people are playing a game of life that has been structured in such a way that they are required to play but prevented from winning.” — Janet Fitchen, “Poverty in Rural America”
In rural New York; No one can hear your scream.
Can you spot the monster in this screenshot?
No, he’s having lunch with the Governor.
KOVID KRAZY: It’s like cabin fever in a motel.
“Social Distancing,” like any other of today’s social programs, is a formalization that does nothing to change people’s attitudes. Millennia after “The Sun and the Wind”: governments still rely on force and form as the builders of society. Even in the face of victory-defeating restrictions; these two boxers still only think of defeating each other.
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
It’s ironic that such a forward looking social outlook is the product of “old school” thinking.
Public Health officials announced that COVID-19 vaccinations for those over the age of 75 in rural New York “will move into an undetermined time.”
Even while the Attorney General’s office is investigating misconduct in the State’s treatment of nursing homes during the pandemic; the State keeps shuffling its most-at-risk population to the back of the vaccination line.
While New York’s power groups bat COVID causes and cures back and forth — its rural elderly are merely in the way.
The essence of Form Base Codes is conforming to the rules — and those rules come from the top.
The activities behind Tompkins County’s policy making, like those behind the walls of Lubyanka; are unseen and not to be talked about.
There’s an authoritarian anxiety in the county that is palpable.
Pretend you’ve been turned . . . or you’ll be burned.
Form Based Codes are all about power and control — that’s why they’re so suitable for prisons and planned doctrinal living.
Doctrine holders always assume the right to question you.
In a formal interview; they can be much more insistent.
Does your Form Based Community have any buildings with sub-basements?
Evil does not play games; but it enjoys making you think it does.
TDML [Total Daily Maximum Load] sets the maximum amount of pollution bearable without serious consequences; and then tells polluters they should TRY to get below it.
In Tompkins County; one of the biggest polluters was tasked with studying and deciding what that maximum was — immediately following that; the NYSDEC announced the deletion of the Schedule of Compliance, and elimination of the just completed Cayuga Lake Water Quality Model Plan and Outfall Redesign schedules and conditions for that polluter.
If you make evil legal; you can hide your actions behind the law.
The government’s departments of assessment are much bigger these days: there’s so much more to decide — who you are, what you should think, what you can be. . . . They’re the judge.
The government’s bureaucracies are much more powerful these days . . .