It’s not surprising that a world-class university like Cornell and the uber-powerful agricultural lobby can combine to thoroughly crush the most marginalized and unrepresented sector of New York State’s population. It’s also not surprising that no one is willing to stand up for us. When Cornell’s rural policy planner publicly stated that no one but farmers “deserved to live there,” she helped lay the groundwork for Tompkins County’s most recent “vision of the future”: one in which the present rural community no longer exists. With an elitist policymaking that has closer ties to the Khmer Rouge than the Constitution, Tompkins County is a college destination with the sort of moral compass that lands people a spot on American Greed. What is The Secret Cornell? It’s a betrayal of trust that makes the College Admissions Scandal seem like throat-clearing at a political rally.
If someone were to ask you to do something; if there were even the smallest chance of it injuring your child – you would say; “No, I won’t gamble with the life of my child.” But when technologies inherently risk all life on earth – you are willing to take that small chance; for a small benefit.
If words like “Extinction,” and “Apocalypse” are written too big for anything but videogames and movies: you need to step back a bit.
We now have the power to do incalculable things — and we have authorities who are eager to use that power.
Government isn’t impersonal; it’s personal. It’s a matter of life and death. . . January 15, 2022.
Just as a cell phone may be seen as the substitution of quantity at a distance; for the quality of a more direct engagement – so may the “busyness” of our citizens with the shallow mnemonic of conforming; replace the duty of a thoughtful and direct engagement with government policy making.
Book Excerpt
The Secret Cornell
The policies and actions in this book demonstrate, beyond any argument of coincidence, that the “importance,” of equitable treatment of those who are underserved and marginalize can be flipped 180 degrees; oppressing the underserved and marginalized for the benefit of rich and influential corporations and interests: proof that “importance” is not the policy maker’s recognition of individual human worth – but merely a disingenuous label; pasted over the self-serving decisions of the elite.
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