Form Based Code Living – Rural Tompkins County

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – Rise of the Evil Ones – “Form Based Codes with Tardigrades”

Nothing so exemplifies the modern “greater good” fiction as Form Based Codes. It expresses the “community’s vision” – as decided upon by authorities. It replaces neighborly conversations with authoritarian regulations. And it imposes an all-controlling “New Urbanism” Colonialism on the ignorant and unthankful rural communities. New Urbanism Planners replace debate with declarations and people with projections – turning communities into cages for an ordered future.

Their overarching principles are Efficiency, Authority, and Legality — Humanity has no place in their New Millennium mix. Form Based Codes channel Stalin and Mao in creating an invasive doctrine of order and force. It’s a planning so detailed — not even a Tardigrade could survive Transection.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Rise of the Evil Ones” – “Krazy Rats Scenario”

Increase the density of the rat population – and they go crazy. It’s a myth – they say. So what’s our excuse? In a world so Doctrine-ordered; maybe our craziness is ordered too. Form Based Craziness. Maybe the craziness is so we can’t see what’s going on. Or maybe the craziness is to stop us from living comfortably together. Craziness gives a great power; but without sure control.

Will the craziness destroy us? It’s not brinkmanship – it’s a pattern of abuse: If they can’t have the world . . . then no one can.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Rise of the Evil Ones” – “Form Basted Thanksgiving”

The form based conventions and convocations of Thanksgiving are everything that Form Based Codes are not – they’re all about people. And when there’s no room left for food and drink; there’s room on the couch for a snooze.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Form Based Thinking” Bumper sticker

Form Based Thinking does not lead by example; it leads by regulation; by Law; by forcing people to conform; by intimidation. Form Based Thinking sees gender and race as a way of compartmentalizing actions – in a way that directly contradicts every ethical and humanitarian precept.

Form Based Thinking is the thinking of the powerful: If you can divide people into the forms you choose; and regulate the attributes of those forms – you can ensure your position and power.

Form Based Thinking does no see humanity; it sees order — it’s diversity from a single viewpoint. Nobody is left behind . . . and nobody can leave their compartment.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Form Based Codes are the mold” Bumper sticker

Just as manufacturers create molds to define shape their product; Form Based Codes allow politicians and bureaucrats to define the shape of the community that residents must conform to. Form Based Code proponents spend a lot of time trashing previous Zoning processes; but they are reticent in revealing their own:

Form Based Codes give unprecedented and unarguable power into the hands of authorities – PERIOD. There is no other certainty. There is no guarantee of public meaningful participation, there is no practical way to change or prevent any Form Based Codes that are handed down. The “streamlined development approval process” ensures that there is no way for the public to block any development that authorities want.

Form Base Codes are a tool of the “New Urbanism” – a manifesto of Urban Colonialism – a city-centric mono-viewpoint that architects have offered to gain a place in the power structure.

Form and Conform meet in Form Based Code regulations – first, the streets outside you home – then, the rooms inside your home – then, the thoughts inside your head — is there a limit to “form based” regulations? Is there a limit to the craving for power?

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Form Based Codes: If you think they’re not authoritarian” Bumper sticker

“Form Based Codes: If you think they’re not authoritarian; Try to get them changed.” Form Based Codes have the following attributes:

1. They give government a much greater regulatory power over where and how people are allowed to live.

2. Developers get a “streamlined” approval process.

3. Most descriptions of the advantages of form-based codes are only statements without any actual proof.

Are Form Based Codes right for your community? Do you wear a sign on your back that says “Kick me!”?

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “FORM BASED CODES” Bumper Sticker

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.

“Rise of the Evil Ones” – Form Based Evil – Counselling Room

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.

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – Form Based Code Living – “Redacted Rehab Facility”

It doesn’t exist. It doesn’t exist. If this was a conspiracy movie; I would have had an accident and bad things would be happening to everyone who saw this document. But it doesn’t exist.

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – Form Based Code Living – “Doctrine • Redoctrination Facility”

It’s not that far from being given the cold shoulder to being kept on ice. The Elite are always worried about keeping their mound of worldly goods and their position on the dais; and their Doctrine of privilege and hate goes a long way towards addressing those fears.

Using the lowest motives has always had the highest success rate in authoritarian societies; so a self-policing Doctrine that targets a particular group as being the cause of all suffering and misfortune is the ideal tool for distraction and control.

With the “Brain and Circuses” [Indoctrination and Recreation] curriculum established in schools; adults are persuaded they’re too “busy” with life’s struggle to stop and think — that’s a job for the Experts.

The beauty of the competitive “dog-in-a-pit” approach is that the dogs never wonder about who built the pit and Why?

Form Based Code Living is where Satire meets Science Fiction meets “That’s why we never heard from him!” whispers — it’s an intersection that’s just up ahead in Cornithaca County.

Weren’t you just wondering what the Experts say?