My Plato’s cave analogy:
“The policy makers, the public and the homeowners must understand that they have been living in a “cave” created by the promotion and mass merchandising of the HOA legal scheme,[1] eagerly accepted in exchange for empty promises of maintaining property values. As prisoners within the cave, HOA members can only see the shadows of reality cast by the false light of the special interest propaganda. Those who have escaped the cave and who have gone into “the light” of reality become enlightened.”[2]
It’s appropriate to restate a few of my views from my 2021 Commentary, “HOA Reformers needed to educate.”
“HOA Reformers are needed as educators to spread the facts about HOA-Land to the public in general; especially to the legislators, the media, the HOA boards, and to the universities and high schools. . . . The Plan[3] first requires addressing the attitudes and views of BODs, the members, and the public in general. The conditioning and indoctrination by the biased views of the national pro-HOA special interest entity must be de-conditioned by a program of reorientation.”
This past Monday I contacted The Federalist Society[4] seeking its assistance to spread the word by opening up debates and discourse through its member attorneys, and law schools and their student chapters across the country. It also publishes a law journal that is distributed to all members, The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. I asked,
“Whereas, I humbly ask The Federalist Society to abide by its mission and purpose and enact programs to address this representative sample of first impression questions, and arrive at the truth of the matter. As of today, to paraphrase Don Quixote’s reply (in Man of La Mancha) when presented with the Inquisition’s facts, ‘CAI facts are the enemy of truth.‘”
Today I was contacted by the Bill of Rights Institute[5]whose “mission is to equip students and teachers to live the ideals of a free and just society, and we have been engaged in this important work since 1999.” BRI extends the re-educational process to secondary school students and teachers. It, too, is silent on HOA injustices. You can help them see the light.
Once again, in a show of unity, I ask for support in pursuing this invaluable vehicle for getting our message out. It must be understood that these groups are interested in substantive constitutional issues that apply across the states, which may require federal regulation to replace the private CAI control of the industry.
Only our proactive involvement will stop the See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil about HOA-Land.
Figure 1 See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil about HOA-Land
NOTES
[1] See TB#50: The Mass Merchandising of HOAs by ULI and Mass Selling of HOAs Required Authoritarian Governance.
[2] Excerpt from HOA Common Sense, No. 2: The new Enlightenment Age. See Plato’s allegory of the cave in Book VII, The Republic. For a summary and a simplification of the allegory, see the YouTube video at http://youtu.be/sAu-CNSh9F0.
[3] See A Plan Toward Restructuring the HOA Model of Governance.
[5] BRI is a non-profit organization that designs and delivers unbiased, fact-based civics and history curricula, classroom-ready resources, and educational programs for teachers and students across America. See Bill of Rights Institute.
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