So many words are being redefined: deliberately using expectations of the traditional meaning to hide a very different action. Independently thinking people need to create new words that better describe these actions, and shed a revealing light on this persuasive perfidy.
Cornithaca County’s “One thought, One taught, One voice, One choice” totalitarian government makes frequent use of “ideafication” for control and as a calming measure.
In this third “find the differences” activity I decided to focus on faces. Since human beings have an understandable predilection for gathering information from faces; it would be interesting to see if this helps or hinders the recognition of differences in these two pages.
The study of imagery as a means of promoting innovative and creative thinking is outside the Cornithaca County theme of the book. However, I plan to add a section on the Idea Enhancement Project’s work to provide a practical framework for achieving and using “qualitative” thinking.
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There’s nothing good about crack; and there’s nothing funny about crack addicts. I picked crack because of the rhyme, but in the Ag Ghetto meth is more common, with a sprinkling of bath salt psychotics.
The county sheriff’s department doesn’t patrol the Ag Ghetto, and it’s become a magnet for the under-the-radar “animal life”: If you’ve got an itch; scratch it. If you’ve got an appetite; feed it. If you’ve got a pipe; smoke it.
They’ve become more active with the Coronavirus — animals can sense a weakness.
Whether it’s “An ounce of entitlement is worth a pound of work” or “It takes a village to pay for a child”: these are remixed proverbs with an edge — and over it.
If you need a sense of humor in life; you need two to handle all the advice you are given: one to accept it and a second to remix it.
So remember: “Life is like riding a bicycle. Once you fall off, you never forget.”
An activity page with Factory Farm attitude. In a way, it’s too late to satire their destruction of the natural world; because they’ve already shed the “Stewards of the Land” skin and put on the mantle of “The Important People Who Feed the World.”
I had a feeling that this was coming last year when I met an Ag Professor returning from India: He responded to the issue of rural health and reduced life expectancy by stating it was “a sacrifice that was necessary to fight world hunger.”
This fits in with the Cornithaca concept of disposable people: Other people. Different people. Lesser people.
Another visual wake-up call. Have fun.
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CORNITHACA COUNTY – SECOND – Find the Differences__Page 1 CORNITHACA COUNTY – SECOND – Find the Differences__Page 2 CORNITHACA COUNTY – SOLUTION – SECOND – Find the Differences
This is not a test – it’s for fun. There are a fairly large number of differences of varying subtlety and perceptual camouflage. You can’t sleepwalk your way through this one.
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On this and other pages; there’s space for coloring and writing your own thoughts. Perfect for a post-apocalyptic collaboration. [You’ll have to fight over the crayons, though.]
I once wrote in an application:
I’ve no skills to fill my resume.
No credentials or honors that weigh.
And no previous year
Saw my writing appear
In a journal, I hope that’s OK?
I didn’t get the job. I guess would have been ashamed if I did. I guess.
Rural America is the “handy” dumping ground for the unwanted and dangerous by-products of our society. Unreported and unrepresented; rural communities have become a dispossessed and marginal population that is ridiculed by a city-centric urban media.
In this scarier version of the children’s confection favorite: Your children are dropped off at the Ag Ghetto border, and must make their long way home safely.
The copyable book pages will include a 15” square game board in four parts, and all the color and special game cards needed for the game.
