Rural Tompkins County

Tompkins County: Living the Lie

I could say: “The other shoe has dropped” — but their actions are always carried out in a dismissive silence: the “needed repaving” of Lansingville Road, that it’s residents were never informed of, is half done — and Tompkins County has widened the road by four feet.

What was once a neighborly community of long-established families, has become an “Ag ghetto” of health-debilitating factory farms, cheap foreign labor, drugs, and poverty. Many families have been taxed out of their homes, which are then remodeled and repurposed into low income apartments for the county’s unwanted. And the only mandate for law enforcement is to keep it all contained.

Lansingville’s rural community is already prostrate; with Cornell’s boot on our necks, and Cornell’s spittle on our faces. Now, the dwindling pocket of rural families is being targeted for even more repressive Urban Colonialist policies. Policies that strip us of almost every permitted land use, and establish an unregulated raceway through the middle of our hamlet: creating a “do whatever you want” highway for big trucks and speeding commuters — an attractive shortcut, without any of the speed reductions placed on the state highways that surround it.

How many of our Town and County politicians, administrators, and authorities were aware of probable outcome of these policies?

From their documented statements, questionable behavior, and refusal to help; I would say: “All of them.”

With the conscious superiority of the elite: Cornellians moved into our 200-year old community, and cut, shaped, and discarded what existed to create a suburban pastiche, for their comfort and short term gain.

The Secret Cornell is more than a tale of greed, misconduct, and corruption: it’s a window into an unchecked progressive government: One Thought, One Taught, One Voice, One Choice — Theirs.

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How many people are “too busy,” or claim that I “depress” them with my documentation of our millennium dark side – and thus seek avoid the need for any thought or action. The denial of reality has never worked to bar its arrival. It’s a storm so wide that trying to escape its path is futile — and it’s impossible to get a grip on the slippery slope.

The Secret Cornell – Paperback and eBooks available at:Amazon.com – BarnesandNoble.com and many other online booksellers

Stick a fork in it

People don’t take the time to hear what you have to say – only to see if you have something they want.

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In an age of using: it’s not surprising that the baseline of our human worth is a denial of that worth.

The more power our leaders gain; the less accountability they have, and in our next-gen society of the greater good: everything is excusable – so policy makers can always have a good reason for doing evil, and legitimize any act by rationalizing it.

Our modern sophistication has created a social media that is ever vulnerable to the age-old tools of flattery and deceit. The Bad is coming, and most people will merely follow the fingers of blame to wherever they point.

In an “If I can’t have world: no one can” paradigm, where politicians would rather take the risky solution than the difficult one, we are paralyzed in a frisson of fear.

The tipping point.

As our digital flip-flop flops into AI; it’s time to get off the ride: no amount of wishing is going to turn that horse loose to ride into the sunset.

The Secret Cornell – Published but not ended

The destruction and disappearance of our rural community continues unabated. Cornell is sloganizing, “Lansing is Leading the Way,” but there is no other municipality that is following, and our leaders will decamp in the night as we approach our destination.

The new Town of Lansing has all the traditional values of a fast food breakfast menu, and all the future of food wrappers on the highway out of town.

In rural New York, no one can hear you scream.

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All follow-up emails to our Town Board presentation requesting rural traffic control and enforcement have received no response or acknowledgement.

A seven-page letter detailing the fraudulent aspects of the Agricultural District Disclosure Form and Notice was sent to numerous politicians and the NYS Agriculture and Markets Commissioner. One State Senator passed it on to another Senator, who passed it on to the Agriculture and Markets Commissioner. There has been no additional action.

The Tompkins County Department of Assessment refuses to admit that there are negative impacts from any industrial farming activity.

The book is published – but the story continues. •• The Secret Cornell is available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple, Kobo, and many other electronic storefronts. For a complete list, and links; go to http://books2read.com/secretcornell

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The policies and actions in this book demonstrate, beyond any argument of coincidence, that the “importance,” of equitable treatment of those who are underserved and marginalize can be flipped 180 degrees; oppressing the underserved and marginalized for the benefit of rich and influential corporations and interests: proof that “importance” is not the policy maker’s recognition of individual human worth – but merely a disingenuous label; pasted over the self-serving decisions of the elite.

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Just as a cell phone may be seen as the substitution of quantity at a distance; for the quality of a more direct engagement – so may the “busyness” of our citizens with the shallow mnemonic of conforming; replace the duty of a thoughtful and direct engagement with government policy making.

“Native Americans” bumper sticker

Were the "Native Americans" an Invasive Species?

Our new society is built on a foundation of privilege and hate. It fosters a polarization through its insistence that society needs to be stratified by race, gender, and ethnicity: under an overarching Authority.

Like all privileges supported by bigotry – its foundations are not open to debate: But they are ever-vulnerable to satire.

“COEXIST” political bumper sticker

Is nothing sacred?! Religion is one thing; but politics? – Now you’re getting serious. Today’s politicos like to downgrade and subordinate every belief – except their own. This bumper sticker satirizes the anything-but-tolerant political beliefs of those whose only tolerance is in the trivialization of others.

“Idea Enhancement Project” — “Who would have thought?”

“Who would have thought?”

Experts are always marveling at what people in the past were able to accomplish with limited technology. The answer is simple – they thought more than we do. When you add up the percentage of our modern technological and scientific endeavors that are given over to thinking: it’s shockingly little.

And yet, isn’t thinking is the first/best tool we should be reaching for to solve our problems and build the future?

And thinking is not only necessary to decide what we should do – but also to decide what we shouldn’t do.

Just as newer technologies race to correct the damage that their earlier iterations have created – so do we race to complete all the steps we need to ensure our existence for the completion of future steps – ever climbing out of a mess that is ever growing.

We’ve become hoarders of experts and authorities, fear and anxiety – until we can’t move around in our own lives for the detritus of decision making.

Will Artificial Intelligence save us? — Will the model in the display case stop the Titanic from sinking?

“Idea Enhancement Project” — “What’s The Big Idea?”

What’s The Big Idea?

Ideas don’t come from nothing – they come from everything.

As I walked into a community meeting last week; someone in the back called out: “Are you still causing trouble?”

“I never cause trouble” I replied and kept walking – denial is usually the best response until you can appraise the situation – but now, and in public, I’ll make an admission: I have a “command center.”

Everywhere these days; there’s a command center: so I got four cameras, pointed them at nothing in particular, and had split-screened a command center on my monitor.

When I started watching “The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch” – they too had a “command center” – and I felt like part of the club. But then they opened a coded lock to their “inner sanctum” – “Shit! They have an inner sanctum!” – but short of putting a coded lock on my bathroom [which isn’t “visitor friendly”] or lining my garage with foil – I’ll have to wait on that.

“Skinwalker Ranch” has many secrets; and the first of these is why it was sold. I believe in the simple case that overrides the boundary conditions; and if there was any evidence of extraterrestrials or portals: government fears of First Contact, or even first discovery, would have kept it out of private hands, and public scrutiny.

Although the show’s experiments are carried out on a landfill of previous, undisclosed government experiments; the results and data are consistent with a high incidence of low probability electromagnetic phenomena [and perhaps magnetic theories of ball lightning could provide an insight into the observed incidents of “orbs” and their seeming ability to pass through solid matter.]

So where’s the “Idea Enhancement” thing? Since Idea Enhancement’s “qualitative thinking” leaves no tracks; I can only present the idea: Carry out cold fusion experiments at Skinwalker Ranch. That’s it, that’s what I would do.

“Idea Enhancement Project” — “It’s a mistake”

It’s a mistake.

When I check the statistics of visitors to the Idea Enhancement website; they invariably visit for “less than 5 seconds” – it’s a mistake.

Something must immediately contradict their expectations or ‘unfulfill” their need for scientific merchandise and merchandising.

In adopting Science’s recycled vision of a mechanistic Universe – modern authorities are eager to gain power and compliance by promoting the idea that they can gift us with happiness and self-worth through material means. Just as Ingmar Bergman’s magician was unable to gain an admission of his powers from the village Minister of Health; while the crone in his traveling show made a profitable business of selling love potions and charms in his kitchen – so are we unwilling to shoulder the burdens of a complex and subtle human reality; and cling to the storybook simplicity of our ‘magic bullet’ scientific “potions.”

When I want to organize something; I just put it in the first place I would look for it – it works. Why worry about the methodologies and proscriptions of experts to fix a problem that the mind so effortlessly solves? The same is true of Idea Enhancement.

“Idea Enhancement” is no more than a name to describe the effortless process of creation – an exhortation to “try it before you deny it.” The “Scientific method” is a self-fulfilling methodology that only sees building steps to get over a wall that you could walk around.

“Idea Enhancement” is practical: it works. So, take a walk around the wall and see what’s there — you can always go back and see what progress “science” has made.

Next: I will share some of the results from my totally unmethodical “qualitative thinking” for your imagination.

“The World According to Doctrine” is published

It’s been said that the greatest enemy of democracy is corruption. And when the very idea of democracy has been corrupted; we are without compass on a dangerous path.

Once more we must win through what we thought was behind us.

Evil recycles,

Doug Baird, Cornithaca County, September 25, 2023

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