The New Urbanism is Urban Colonialism; and their “vibrant” urban centers require that rural lands be used for food production, recreation, and the unwanted.
They’re bringing civilization to the rural natives by destroying their cultural matrix and setting them adrift in an elitist society that has no use for them; except as consumables.
In Tompkins County’s Cornell led planning “vision” of the future — the county’s rural communities will no longer exist.
It takes a special kind of liar to portray a collegiate world of environmental nurturing, ethical policy-making, and public participation — when they know that everyone believes the opposite: and it takes an influential plutocracy to avoid the consequences. Tompkins County: submit to the power – or else.
“Tompkins County is so stratified: You can’t just kneel – You have to grovel.” It’s not just that the County’s policy-making elite think so much of themselves; it’s that they think so little of everyone else. Their pretensions can be laughed at – but their pronouncements must be feared. A fool with a gun; has a gun.
Get off the high ground: because your views directly contradict the lives and beliefs of every revered figure of human worth and equality. Get off the high ground: because goodness acts in the open; and you insist on secrecy. Get off the high ground: because you bend important principles 180 degrees and still claim you’re fulfilling them.
Get off the high ground; you ain’t all that — but you are all that that has oppressed people throughout history.
We can coexist; as long as we do what they want. As long as we say what they want. As long as we think what they want. For as long as they allow.
There is no compromise — it’s just that some things can’t be swallowed whole.
Cornithaca is a place where rich non-profits decry the materialism of working people all the way to the bank; and “lip service” is another name for a convocation of policy makers.
It’s a place where non-conforming people and ideas are targeted in a servile media; while intellectual lemmings attack and attack with mindless ferocity.
In a county where “user-ism” has replaced activism; profiting in a very material way from public policy has become a way of life.
Their burden is the weight of rulership; ours is to carry their sedan chairs.
Words are an age-old means of obfuscation and misrepresentation. From riddles to reasoning; words are the leaders in misleading.
Words are used to sell you on a policy or an idea “As Is” — never buy one without a thorough inspection.
The use of words to promote and to describe oppression is one the threads in this book.
In an old Monty Python sketch; a man was told that unfortunately he had chosen the “no-pay” insurance policy, which was a great deal if he never had to use it, but . . .
Our Criminal Justice System best fits the people that never have to rely on it — it works just great in no-crime areas.
Evil recycles – it comes around again and again – the same content; remade.
Wouldn’t it be useful if government policies were labeled – “80% post corruption content” [the remaining 20% is mostly fools.]
Recycling: it’s the same evil with a different face.
Bug zappers work by giving the illusion of freedom and escape — and hiding the consequences: This is the same way elitist policy making works.
[I can’t say this will lead us to an early grave; because graves take land, land is worth something, and we’ve already served our purpose.]