rural social justice – Page 13 – Rural Tompkins County

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Tompkins County is a planned community” Bumper sticker

“All Roads“Tompkins County is a planned community” Bumper sticker

“Tompkins County is a planned community: Their plan – your community.” Government is taking control to make the “best communities”: but even if it’s not for the best of your community; and they never intended it to be — they’re still taking control. Their planners and planning decisions are completely outside the approval and oversight of the people.

“Tompkins County and Tammany Hall” will detail and document the jaw-dropping truth behind this emerging dictatorship.

They refuse to be questioned, they refuse to be accountable, and they refuse to allow meaningful public participation in any government process — that’s Tompkins County today; and everywhere tomorrow.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “It was an unlevel playing field” Bumper sticker

“It was an unlevel playing field; but it was the same playing field – Now you can’t even get through the fence.”

The “unlevel” playing field presents a problem: you can still win. So level the playing field – into many levels — and they decide the outcome. What level did they put you on?

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “It’s not local government” Bumper sticker

“Tompkins County: It’s not local government – it’s a franchise.”

Just like a business franchise – In Government Format Franchising; the franchisor provides to the franchisee not just its political rhetoric, policies and services, but an entire system for operating government. The franchisee generally receives customized surveys and planning development support, operating manuals, training, conforming standards, media control, a marketing strategy and expert advisory support from the franchisor.

It’s not about thinking — it’s about “branding”: brand visibility, brand loyalty, brand conformity — an ever-changing menu of reimagined sameness; from the same source.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Don’t need to believe” Bumper sticker

There comes a time in a scam, when the scam is revealed; a time in politics when the Dictator is announced — a time in every manipulative deception when the perpetrators know they are beyond justice; beyond questioning — this is that time in Tompkins County.

Most people in Tompkins County don’t believe – so why don’t they speak out?

It’s a time when that is not wise.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – Mind Games – “The dot.gov game”

A simple game for “brainstorming” government strategy. The schisms and arguments between players mimic the daily bureaucratic and political infighting of our would-be and be leaders.

The addition of alcohol quickly brings out the characters of those who will rule – and those who die in hotel rooms.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “COEXIST with Crime” Bumper sticker

COEXIST with Crime? Not a good idea. You think you’re getting along with criminals — and they just haven’t gotten around to you yet.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Obliviousness = Oblivion” Bumper sticker

It’s bad enough to become extinct when you have no chance to avoid it. But when the roof is falling on your head and you blame gravity — you’re too clueless for a clue-filled universe.

Things are bad and they are getting worse. And if we don’t wake up; they’re going to get much, much worse. And much, much, much, much, much, much worse.

Somewhere; there’s a “much” with our extinction written on it. And it can’t get much worse than that.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “CO-Void” – NEW Word

Like the Monty Python sketch where the insured’s “no pay” insurance was a great deal – if he never had to use it — our new world, “be the change” advertisement was a smug Peaceable Kingdom paradigm – until the Pandemic – until the predators sensed an injured prey.

It wasn’t just the media noise of the pandemic that should have caught our attention — it was the silence and emptiness where our humanity used to be. How far have we moved from the “caring and sharing” 1960s to a “using and abusing” 2020s? And if we keep traveling around our spinning world – will we meet up with that time again?