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“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “COVID CUOMO” Bumper Sticker

This series of bumper stickers will tie into a number of themes in the book. I use COVID-19 pandemic as a social tool; an acid test that can reveal more by what it doesn’t affect then what it does. It reveals a glaring lack of compassion in a state whose governor places political doctrine and self-serving policy making above human worth.

In his daily executive updates; Cuomo always has a phrase — never featured; just a tag-line to a bunch of statistics.

“Sadly, we lost 57 New Yorkers to the virus.” “Sadly, we lost 61 New Yorkers to the virus.” “Sadly, we lost 49 New Yorkers to the virus.” New York’s unidentified elderly.

No more important than dripping faucet. An annoying background noise to the political agenda that eventually gets shut out by the brain.

I started to add them up. 6,047 since January 13^th — 6,047 Human Beings. Maybe 6,100 by tomorrow. Drip . . . drip . . . drip . . .

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – Poem: “You Decide”

This poem is dedicated to the Autocrats who run our lives, those who aspire to that position, and those live off the scraps. You don’t believe it? When’s the last time you were ever asked [or allowed] to have any meaningful participation in policy making?

“PROCTORS” Card Game: Free Printable Download

"PROCTORS" Card Game Download (2690 downloads )

The download includes printable PROCTORS card game instructions and all card and color designs. A page of card backs is included for double-sided printing.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “PROCTORS” Game Cards 4

The three last card designs from the “Proctor” card game. Repression, suspicion, and corruption are integral parts of any authoritarian government; and an everyday occurrence in Cornithaca County.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “PROCTORS” Game Cards 3

Four more card designs from the “Proctor” card game – including Wild and Wild Draw Four card designs.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “PROCTORS” Game Cards 2

Here are four more card designs from the “Proctor” card game. The book will include pages for scanning/copying/printing every card in all four colors; with a card back page for double-sided fun.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “PROCTORS” Game Cards

Here are four card designs from the “Proctor” card game: it’s a shedding-type card game where the object is to dispose of all the non-conforming people.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Not” Again

All the insight is in the reader.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “BEFORE you go out” Poster

It’s not surprising how easily COVID posters can be converted to cautionary proclamations. The restrictions used for the eradication of a virus and the eradication of an idea are very much the same.

And a vaccine performs a similar function to indoctrination in building resistance to an outside influence.

Even the policies that emphasize isolating and tracking down the source share a common fear: loss of control.

“For the greater good” is the tyrant’s slogan of the new century. While the “good” is something that the people can decide among themselves, this “greater good” seems to require an overarching and overriding control — and the kind of authority that glories in it.

“Full Disclosure – Full Exposure” of government policies and statistics leads to thinking. Thinking leads to questioning; and questioning leads to freedom.

How much does your government like to be questioned?

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “PROCTORS” Card Game Advertisement

“It’s not revenge; it’s Justice.”

In a time when the wildest performances adhere to convention as clingingly as the safest Salon painting; being different is more than just a target of repression — it’s the object of envy.

The “PROCTORS” Card Game lets you get back at those whose courage makes you feel small; and with some serious vicarious teeth.

It’s like a hanging in effigy; when you’re safe in the crowd.

Coming Soon.