My first book of short stories and what people had to say about it.
Six creepy tales of long kept family secrets, dark dreams, broken sanity, ghostly encounters and the old magic of witchcraft.
You can bury your dead, but secrets have a way of coming back…
(c) K Wicks
The hotels and the growing issue of mass haphazard immigration. I have already covered this in Hotel California, or Hotel Strategy? And in On the ground. But as we keep seeing the numbers increase, and the financial resources being thrown at it, people can’t help but wonder what the actual fuck is going on. I speculated further in And the purpose is? covering the idea that it was to disrupt tourism and create a destabilising force within communities. And that does seem to be the case, so not sure it’s really speculation, more an observation at this point.
The reports from various European countries keep filtering through as well of violent gang crime and sexual assaults, towards men and women. Machete attacks, some murders and various other things highlighting the clash of mentalities, cultures, education and the often shocking and grisly outcome of this. But what some people question is they why of all of it. And rightly so, because even if the typical age range and attitude of the boaters wasn’t that of organised crime and with nefarious intentions, there would be still be the question of why exactly. After years of strict borders, passport control, immigration procedures and ‘protecting our borders’ as it was called back in the day with the apparent land army we had, it seems not a thing anymore. In fact, our own Navy assist them from France in a rather civilised manner. Funny really, makes me think about previous ‘wars’ we are told about when they invaded, or crossed a massive ocean to take a country. Did they? Or were they invited and shipped over with agreement to put them in place as paid mercenaries, to be activated when ready to make it look like it was a genuine skirmish, or that society just collapsed from within all by itself. The fall of Rome and all the other empires they mention, at the height of their opulence and greed, it all just falls in on itself, apparently.
Or, could it be, that they all reach the point of enough people being educated enough to really see the scale of the corruption, or that it is so large it simple cannot be hidden. And thereafter it starts to go horribly wrong, so it becomes a desperate race against time to take the riches, leave the people in the gutter, and rewrite history again to show that you didn’t lose, or ruin everything, but it was ‘the people’, it was the weather, it was them over there. Anything but admitting that it was an orchestrated and co-ordinated takedown of certain peoples, histories, countries, societies, families and ultimately a takeover of power.
And we are witnessing something at the moment, that appears to be a power move. Where the ‘elected’ officials (and not even elected anymore, just placed), start to completely ignore the people are apparently there to serve, and continue on their power mission. Where they abuse your trust, ignore your reasoning, take your money and then act surprised that you will call them out on it. Many people are questioning what their goal or plan actually is, who is it that authorised the release of unlimited funds for anyone and everyone from overseas to rock up and be housed, indefinitely? Who really has the pot of money and controls the purse strings on that one? I know they won’t tell us, and we will all continue to be treated like fools, who are looked on as silly for even asking the question and thinking of the financial cost, as well as the economic and psychological one on everyone being affected by it. Locals and new arrivals. They are being used to aggravate and inflame the locals, with a promise of something I’m sure, while everyone else just gets thrown to the curb. Like them saying “No we don’t have the financial resources we took from you over the years to keep on your behalf for you, because we are now busy giving it so someone else”. Honestly, if you worked a whole week, or month, or even day, and went to get your wages, and your employer said “Oh, you won’t be getting any money today, I decided to give them to that person over there who just turned up…”. We’d like to think that person might have something to say about that, or perhaps wouldn’t bother turning up to work every day thereafter. Or if you had saving put to one side, and you went to the bank to get them, or some of them, and the bank says “Sorry, you no longer have any savings, we decided that family over there needed somewhere to live, so we gave it to them, even though they haven’t worked, or saved any money”. I think people might suddenly stop putting their money into the hands of people who treat it like that. Or not, it’s hard to say now what people would put up with, they have been worn down quite successfully over the decades and especially the last few years, and it shows.
So, is it just incompetence we see around us, as some would like to suggest or believe. Or is it in fact a strategy, to demolish the systems that are, to replace them with the systems they want in place. To make it seems as though the current system is so old and outdated, it can’t possibly hold up to ‘modern living’, despite the fact that it has facilitated us getting here quite well. But where is here anyway? At a point on a long road that someone else put you on, to a destination they have decided, with tolls and bridges along the way you must pay for, or work through, or never make it across. They don’t want you veering from that road, don’t want you building your own bridges, or finding a better way without them. Suddenly there are fences, blockades, walls and checkpoints to go through, just for living your life. Like an odd game of snakes and ladders crossed with a rat’s maze, but instead of just a blank maze, imagine shops, and procedures, and exams that the rat has to go through before it is allowed to enter the next corridor. So they can ‘grade it’ and ‘assess it’ to decide which corridors and area it will be allowed to try and access next for its ‘reward or punishment’, whether it gets a snake, or a ladder…
(c) K Wicks
(c) K Wicks
There are two types, but really it’s the same after giving it thought, although one is physical, and one is mental.
Firstly, the physical. Farming and ownership of animals, giving them a branding, a deep mark to show who owns you, or a tag to show and identify that ownership. Also known within slavery of people, or in the punishment of criminals.
Now apply that in a psychological sense to marketing. How companies want you as ‘their customer’, branding their imagery and words into your mind through marketing campaigns and all that go with them. Adverts, jingles, merchandise, timing and strategy. All carefully prepared and thought out, to try and get you for life. And if you wear their brand, you tag yourself, and help them to further their campaign, for free.
It’s not enough to just have someone remember your product or service, they want you to buy it. They want a customer, need you to consume to be a productive customer. So, in my mind they need to ‘brand’ it into your subconscious.
Tattoos are also a type of brand I guess, but where it would appear most people do it to themselves. There are tribes who do it, and we have used tattoos to ‘identify’ prisoners and people held captive, but in society, as most of you will know, tattoos really took a foothold over the previous decades. Now not just reserved to single out people who were in the Navy or prison, they have gone mainstream. In a bid to self-identify and create our own brands of ourselves, yet all the while still following the mood of society, and in a strange way, the irony of it didn’t escape me at the time. Just as noted in The first fad, these things never happen naturally, and while we all clamoured to be an individual, we all lined up for a social branding. Well, not everyone, but enough, and it carries on. Creating industry and artistry, it’s now pretty much seen as normal.
But with that also came something else, because for the most part, tattoos are not always on show, so although someone might feel it’s part of their identity, they can’t make it obvious unless they are on show. Hence why some people have them in hideable places, so that people don’t get to label and judge as you walk by. Because people do, and I can’t say that is entirely wrong, we need to be able to judge and assess our situations and people we mingle with or are in proximity to. That’s not to say you should treat them any different based on those thoughts, but we do judge people and situations on appearances, as I believe we should, so they are quite important. Not to ‘fit in’ or to show malice towards anyone, but to know where you stand. As they say, nature will make toxic and poisonous things colourful, or with a certain sign that you should stay away. We have those signs too, not always as obvious, but occasionally they very much are.
And recently we have seen high-profile fashion companies and even social media companies that are positively delighted to see you wear their brands, and it is an affiliation, and not always a good one it turns out. Not just about socialising, fashion and clothing after all it seems, it is also a form of branding where you make a very big show of your allegiance. And of the company being able to show its numbers or a number of followers to determine how great they are. Because while it is said there is a system of ‘you will own nothing coming’, it seems that while they want to take away a system of ownership for materials things for people, they require a sense of ownership themselves, but over you. By taking away peoples own identity and ‘re-branding’ it, gets you into the fold, into the mentality set for you. Because if you don’t even know who you are, why would you fight to save it? What would you be fighting for? Being able to own your own car and home and things, isn’t the crux of the issue. Those are your possessions, you possess them, you own them. Now apply that to yourself, you are the item that they fight for, while you fight for freedom to have things. They put rules in place so that they will possess you, they will own you and your thoughts. Sounds far-fetched, doesn’t it? I know it does, but not so much if you hear what they say.
Chips in your brain so they can ‘know your thoughts’, not fantasy or science-fiction, freely discussed. That’s quite a step further from you won’t be allowed to drive isn’t it? The difference between being grounded or your parent insists that they follow you everywhere, you must tell them what you think, they will control your bank account, your choices and restrict your movement to where they decide. For your whole life. You wouldn’t have it would you? You would think they had gone mad with some kind of power delusion, gaining a strange ‘God complex’ as they call it. Thinking they ‘own’ you. And that is where we are told to not put up with that, from parents, friends, partners, bosses, nobody can own you they say, you are a person in your own right. So is that why they are trying to ‘re-write’ the human system, tinkering with DNA and being on their mission to get everyone injected. The other discussion around this is that once they have injected you with whatever it is they have, you are tagged and being made part of a system that has no place for freedom or individuality. It requires energy and humans to power it, with talk filtering through of people being used as antennas in the very near future to make 6g work, it makes that seem even more plausible. And I can’t help thinking of the scene in The Matrix, where he is shown the fields of pods, where humans are being grown for use as batteries, to power the world that now is. That might have just been a very crude representation of it, but if you take away the dark themes of pods and a scorched sky, and replace it with how it would be for us. Walking around generating the power needed, and it being syphoned away from you without you even knowing, thinking that because you aren’t unconscious in a pod pretending to have a better life, you aren’t trapped in a construct that needs you to survive. But we are, and the freedom we fight for, isn’t as it appears…
(c) K Wicks
(c) K Wicks
I have decided to try and give reading my articles a go, not the biggest fan of my talking voice, but you have to start somewhere as they say. So, here is my first reading as a disembodied voice 🙂 – and the link to the article if you would like to read it.
(c) K Wicks
In our studies of insects, it is noted sometimes how there are similarities of structure, or behaviour. And for this purpose, we will be looking at ants. You may already have guessed where this is going by the title, but to look at what it is that causes us to notice similarities. Apart from the obvious of course, they have a colony, a queen, military ants, worker and breeder ants, and a chemical communication process that works. Can’t help thinking it’s similar, maybe we are being modelled on that? Or is a natural state we achieve as a group? Probably not as our system requires constant enforcement, and theirs appears to be of a natural order. But we can’t be sure. For all we know, the queen ant might be able to drug the worker ants, turn them into compliant zombies or somethings. See articles The Hive, and Zombies? Perhaps for a little more on that.
The two films being referenced here are both animated, and although for children, seems to have a rather grown-up undertone going on. And not really a hidden one. As I have watched a number of these type of films only as an adult, I can only speculate in mind on what a child may take from it.
A Bug’s Life (1998) – an aggressive species, apparently a bit higher than the ants in the food chain, are using them as slaves to collect food, and their whole existence is based around this. Until one questions it and disrupts the status quo, showing there is a better way.
ANTZ (1998) – For the good of the colony. Sounds very similar to ‘for the greater good’ doesn’t it. But this film is quite dark really, as it shows a conspiracy to depopulate the entire colony by the ones at the top by way of a ‘disaster’, to start again so they can be better, but without 95% of the numbers. Luckily one sees through it all eventually and saves the day, as we are supposed to think happens. When someone else saves the day covers what I think of the idea of a saviour hero character and how well placed they are in our collective psyche. But they managed to have a eugenicist colonel to head the colony and be the bad guy, and a lowly ‘worker’ to save the day.
The ones who do survive after ‘saving the day’ though, don’t ever save it for the people do they? The ones for the people who want rid of the whole shoddy system, end up dying for the cause, the ones who save it for the crown? They usually get to live, and it be called a noble cause or quest. But just as the picture and quote highlight, it would be a very different situation in the game of power, if all the ‘ants’ decided to be heroes at once wouldn’t it? Instead of waiting for someone else to save the day and swoop in from nowhere and sort everything out, if everyone stood up at once, to be their own hero, and to fight for themselves, and for and with others then it might be different. And who can say for sure what will happen when people are pushed to breaking point, despite what we think we know, there is always a variable that hasn’t been factored in that can steer it in a new direction. But that works both ways, so it’s a good idea to stay sharp and pay attention, as you never know what’s around the next manufactured corner.
(c) K Wicks
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