It seems that Toronto-area Whitchurch-Stouffville mayor Justin Altmann keeps a diagram of glossy photos and interconnecting lines and arrows on the wall of his office bathroom. (Right on the wall too. That’s going to need re-painting.)
What does it all mean? Unknown, but it probably means the results of the next election have shifted.
Is this a common thing, and is there an app for that? Then they could sit and plot in any bathroom.
Isn’t the ‘photos (sometimes interpsersed with newspaper clippings) on the wall connected by a dense web of cryptic arrows and incomprehensible annotations’ thing generally treated as so blatantly crazy that it’s either used just to emphasize that a character is totally nuts; or played for laughs?
If anything, what really chills the blood about this one is the combination of tidiness and clip art. The messier, more chaotic, ‘found object’ examples have an “I’m totally nuts; but every moment is one of ecstatic discovery of meaning in a world where everything is deeply laden with symbolic import” air to them. This one is more “I’m totally nuts; and I think in Visio and crudely vectorized visual cliches”.
I think it’s the status quo for a pattern-recognition-gone-amok species such as humans. But it is only odd or crazy when individuals create their own content and connections rather than trusting the consensus frameworks of mass-media, academia, politics, and commerce to do it for you without undue attention.
Leave it to the professionals! Do not try this at home!
“For the last two and a half, three years, the harassment, the bullying that I have endured has been very, very monstrous,” said Altmann.
“There was nothing evil, there was nothing bad, there was nothing corrupt, there was nothing of hatred,” said Altmann. “It was showing the purity of my investigation with the links of the emails, the information and the data which I had collected.”
The mayor describes himself as “a visual learner.”
The mayor said he’s pleased the bathroom wall photo collage was exposed.
“Now, I can tell my story, because this is not human … it’s just evil, pure evil.”
staring at peoples faces during that sacred #2 time (pun intended)
who was trusted to enter the mayor’s throne room?
Edit* of course anyone would be concerned as to why their photo was anyone’s bathroom political chart … will be interesting to hear the reasoning if provided by the honourable mayor.
They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with… geometric logic… that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist…
