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“The World According to Doctrine” — More Urbites 6

The word “hearing” conjures up clips of hard hitting, hard questioning Congressional Hearings — but nothing could be farther from today’s local and county hearings. Along with all he public participation of a royal proclamation, and the transparency of bullet-proof glass – government planning is sold with a carefree lack of accountability: Comments from the public are met with an indifference that underscores the absence of any meaningful public participation or oversight.The only hard hitting going on in public hearings is the way their planning hits the public.

“The World According to Doctrine” — “How do you know you’re Old School?” 2

It’s time to shed the “AARP-Ineffectual” image that’s been laid on old folks – it’s a long road to being old – and those New School yearbooks will be pulped long before you get there. Old School? It’s how the people who lived to be old; lived to be old.

“The World According to Doctrine” — More Urbites 5

It’s not what you do: it’s who you are – never more so than now. In a country that’s still covering up for their biggest polluters; how far away are we from doing anything about it? If they can’t have the world: no one can.

“The World According to Doctrine” — Form Based Code Cornell [formerly Lansing] NY

Form Based Codes are a simplified form; for a simplified government: themselves. Form Based Codes bring zoning into line with modern authoritative thinking: 100% public comments – 0% meaningful participation.

Form Based Codes are the perfect tool for Urban Colonialism: the preservation of urban spaces – and the resettlement and destruction of the rural community. A “streamlined” tool for taking.

“The real tragedy of these small enclaves of marginality and poverty is that people are playing a game of life that has been structured in such a way that they are required to play but prevented from winning.” — Janet Fitchen, “Poverty in Rural America”

In rural New York; No one can hear you scream.

“The World According to Doctrine” — Is there a “Robbery gone good”?

With victims dismissively reduced to “complainants,” and murders spin-doctored down to “a robbery gone bad” – we should ask our increasingly distant government: “Is there a ‘robbery gone good’?”

Would that be a robbery with just the threat of violence? Or is it any amount of injury short of death? Authorities seem able to rationalize, and minimize, our suffering – and while some people may admire their ability to make so measured a judgement: it brings little relief to the nightmares of victims – only the closure of a file drawer.

“The World According to Doctrine” — Does legality give legitimacy?

“Discrimination is against the Law.” That’s a lie. Discrimination IS the law – “lawful discrimination,” that is.

You can walk both sides of a one-way street – If you’re certain that your talk and all your actions never meet.

Full disclosure – Full exposure of all government policies and statistics. Goodness doesn’t need to hide.

“The World According to Doctrine” — “How do you know you’re Old School?”

What’s the difference? “Time will tell.” Just using this phrase is Old School – young people don’t need time to find out – they already know everything.

It was amusing to read the conclusion of a thirty-year old; that “in his experience” – young people had better ideas than old people. Young people think old people are fools. Old people know young people are fools. In a humanity that only seems able to learn the hard way; maybe those decades of experience are more important than authorities admit — Old age may not bring wisdom: but you certainly get to know what bullshit is.

“The World According to Doctrine” — “A tool of Cultural Genocide”

No it’s not–Yes it is – The evidence is everywhere. Cultural Genocide is “the systematic destruction of traditions, values, language, and other elements that make one group of people” – and the best way to do that is by removing that culture from public observance and awareness.

It’s demeaning to be categorized by what you’re not: and while apologists point out that the category; “Non-Hispanic white” was created by the Census Bureau – what is their excuse for our government refusing to change it?

Our government’s institutional partners, like AARP revise their calendars to designate March as “Women’s History Month” – with no mention of Irish History at all — and the History Channel banners “Women’s History Month” continuously; to the exclusion of Irish contributions to our country’s history.

The AARP calendar only designates months for Native Americans, Blacks, Women, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and Pride — all groups who support policies of race, gender, and ethnic discrimination.

Dare to debate.

“The World According to Doctrine” — Global Warming: Science sees a thermometer

Even when Science is about people – it’s not for people: it’s a detached attitude that sees Global Warming as a matter of degrees – not disasters. It’s a perspective that elevates observation above compassion, or responsibility.

We’re cooking a pot of unsustainable policies; while Science monitors the safe temperature guidelines. How hot is it? Hot as Hell.

“The World According to Doctrine” — The New Occam’s Razor: the only explanation

These days; the bell-shaped curve only rings true in the center – and the only explanation is the authoritative one. In the past; people thought – now they’re just taught.