Rise of the Evil Ones – 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” – “Find the three identical balloons”

There is similar, much alike, and identical. “Lenses” can be used to select a set of things that are “similar” and “much alike” – but “identical” transcends these subjective judgements.

“Made with” and “made from” on a product may seem similar in the eyes of to a consumer; but are quite dissimilar through the legal “lens” of regulators.

It’s tough to keep your bearings on the “slippery slope” of words, meaning, and intent that comprise [and compromise] today’s social policies — so the best procedure is to compare their words and actions with those figures of equality, compassion, and human worth we most respect.

When you hear phrases like; “fighting for the same thing” – watch out – it means that those beliefs and actions have been adulterated — and there is no telling with what; and how much of it is inert . . . or toxic.

“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.