government policy – Page 44 – Rural Tompkins County

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “You don’t feel it in your heart” Bumper sticker

“Social Policy 2022: You don’t feel it in your heart – you feel it in their hate.” Like the “practical jokes” that are not jokes; but are evidence of a desire to hurt – there is a dark undercurrent in popular culture today.

Behind what has become polemic of discriminatory bias and accusatory arrogance; intolerance and bigotry preen and strut – fatuously declaiming what they are “owed.”

The brittle construct of judgmental “equality” has shattered; revealing an ugly landscape of greed, self-indulgence, and hate.

In “The Lossy Society – Old Folks” graphic; you can see the shadowy word; “shoes” – over the physicality of Nazi hate.

“Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be, only?”

Scrooge had an epiphany — there is little evidence that we will.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Rise of the Evil Ones” – “The Lossy Society – Old Folks”

In the “Lossy Society” – all regulatory tools and policy making profit those who are in charge – and those who desperately cling to them.

People Units are sorted into compartments and processed as needed – with the Elite as the end beneficiaries. The bigger the problem or perceived need; the more compartments are processed. No one is indispensable; except those who do the dispensing.

2022 will be a time of great need . . . What’s your compartment?

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “It’s a “greater good” . . .” Bumper sticker

“Social Policy 2022: It’s a ‘greater good’ – that fails every test of goodness.” There is no love. There is no compassion. There is no human worth. That is why they hide their actions and their victims – and are only willing to talk about their good “intentions.”

And if the “road to Hell is paved with good intentions” – maybe we should take the time to look; and see how far along we are.

Where is the “greater good” in a government that assumes the power to discriminate against whoever they want; whenever they want; for as long as they want; in secrecy?

Is there a single area of society where the ‘greater good’ puppet show has not become script for propagandizing oppression?

We have come down the road so far – that evidence of the most blatant bias is met with a dismissive unconcern. Evil is a tireless driver; and our leaders have taken a back seat — eagerly anticipating the final destination.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “It fell through the crooks.” Bumper sticker

“Rural Social Justice? It fell through the crooks.” In a time when so many people see others as objects to use – those left undefended in our society are at the mercy of all.

In fifteen years of efforts to bring Rural Social Justice to Tompkins County: I was unable to get one person in authority at the local, county, or state level to represent, support, or help the rural community – or to make even the slightest change in the existing policy-making bias and misconduct.

Who is worse off than a marginalized urban poor? People who aren’t even worth helping.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Follow the arrows home”

While it’s simple to follow the arrows; it’s confusing to have so many arrows to follow. The old truism; “the best way to make a million dollars is to write a book about how to do it, and sell a million copies” – has been carried to extremes in today’s advice giving landscape.

Political advice, social advice, health advice, financial advice, cooking advice — all vying for your attention [and money] — and all adding up to more than a lifetime of reading, comparing, preparing, and consuming.

The conclusion is self-evident: if you don’t have some of your own arrows to follow – you’ll never find your way home.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Stones”

There is a knowledge you can only acquire when you don’t spend all your time with machines and plodding categorizations.

Our society is not the glue that hold us together – it’s the bars that keep us apart. When you think in terms of “people”; everything is understandable – there is no human convention in place or time that does not answer to our desire to find our place in the world; both within us and without.

Stop bending under the ceiling of those who would limit our growth to their understandings of use and control — it’s time to stand up and stretch.

There is no limit to the imagination that has not been placed there for that purpose.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Knots Too Much”

With more twists, turns, and dead ends than modern governance: these policy projecting pieces of rope could be used to replicate resident’s paths in our Kafkaesque bureaucracy. It’s as difficult [and as useful] as tracing skate-marks in the ice – but I hope it’s perceptually invigorating and fun.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Irreversible consequence technologies” Bumper sticker

“Is there anybody approving the use of irreversible consequence technologies; who does not plan to profit from them?

Bumpers are intended to protect us from serious harm in the event of a collision – but this bumper sticker argues for a more proactive solution: not having a fatal accident.

In the movie “Forbidden Planet”: Krell Super-Science gave the inhabitants of that planet the power to do anything their minds could imagine — but when they slept, and their conscious minds were no longer in control — that power resulted in their extinction.

Are we poised on the same precipice?

We are gambling the future of all life on earth; on the assurances of people who have fame, fortune, the realization of a dream, and great political ambition in the balance — and with no way to reverse the damage or make restitution.

All the equational delusions and statistical status quos are beside the point. I may not have studied science and politics — but I have studied scientists and politicians. And “deep shit” – is deep shit.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Un-titled” Road signs

End of Days? A little stocktaking might be appropriate. It’s tough to quibble your way out of death. And complaints about bed bugs and mold will certainly fall on deaf ears — no matter what kind of afterlife we get.

We’re in for Big Changes. BIG CHANGES. Why aren’t you being told this? Get Real. It would cause problems. And there are responsibilities. And they’ll justify those actions in their memoirs – from the space colony.

We are living in a point of history where there is no “everybody” – just “everybody else” — and everybody is someone else’s “everybody else.”

Maybe I should start smoking again? I can give it up when I give everything up. Or everything else.