Rural Tompkins Blogs – Page 86 – Rural Tompkins County

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – Cornithaca Billboards – “Come GROW with Us”

Big government only seems to be comfortable with big players. This “big” does not refer to its size, but to its scope and its partners: A small town government may aspire to “bigness” through its connection to larger powers; and the control this leverages in the lives of the residents.

Cornithaca’s government is an interlocking structure comprised of Institutions, Corporations, and Non-profits; with no meaningful participation by the people.

We are told we should be grateful that we are allowed to speak at public meetings, and live among such forward looking and benevolent guidance.

We have no choice.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “message”

Scary? It depends on who’s calling.

Society is no longer about people: it’s about government. That’s why governments [and the people who control them] have been rolling up all power and decision making into one place.

Artificial Intelligence may replace you; but it can’t replace the greed and ambition that drive it . . . yet.

Scary.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “TIME TO GO”

Whether it comes through experience, listening to stories, or just animal awareness — one of the best survival skills is knowing when it’s time to go. And not wasting any time doing it.

New Word – “Equitabullshit”

“Equitable” is actually a denial of human worth, and a proclamation that those in authority have the sole right to divide and decide the rights of others — even the right to live.

To the people who claim that there is a “greater justice”: if this justice can be apportioned by the dictates of the rich and powerful; how can you claim there is any justice at all?

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “True Light Blocking Glasses”

Apps that direct you to sites that only reinforce what you already believe, automatic rejection of conflicting information as “Fake News” or “Fake Video,” all non-conforming thought condemned without debate — the pieces are all there — putting them together is just around the corner.

Build them a concentration camp; and they will come.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – EASY MAZE – “Housing Maze”

“Cornithaca County” uses the concept of “US” as a way for the Elite to move their burdens onto the backs of others.

Even though Ithaca is one of the most expensive cities in the country to live in; it retains its neighborhoods of wood frame houses and surrounds itself with large tracts of “conservation spaces;” while pushing thousands of housing units into the meadows and fields of outlying rural communities and creating Urban “Nodes.”

The County’s latest Comprehensive Plan doesn’t mention “urban sprawl” once.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “HIT•FALL – The Municipal Adventure”

Bureaucracy’s no mystery

It’s unchanged throughout history

With power, privilege, and with wealth

It works to keep them for itself.

New Word – “Entitlespent”

I remember a bartender telling me that most of his younger patrons didn’t even come in until after midnight.

That they planned to party into their forties, then get a high paying job with great benefits, and retire in a few years to luxury.

Too many cooks may spoil the broth; but too much dead weight will sink any ship.

What will the captain do when we get too low in the water?

“Bidenstein – Triple-pumped” – Turbo-Accelerated Image Destroyer

“Bidenstein – Triple-pumped” is based on the Full Disclosure – Full Exposure concept of ethical and responsible government. Future writings will give examples of how completely and cleverly government constructs its disclosures to ensure that you will look, and think, no further.

Industrial Farming can claim “free range” by cutting openings in their sheds — sheds that the chickens raised within their multitudinous interiors under artificial light are terrified to use.

What sort of “free range” thinker are you?