A reading of my article – A Weak System
(c) K Wicks
Month: March 2023
Alarming, no?
An emergency alert. In fact, the exact words were “The UK is set to test a frightening ‘Armageddon alarm’ within weeks which will see thousands of people’s phones flash and set off alarms.” And call me cynical, but my first thought was how awful for people with anxiety, who will be given a panic attack, even more so for those who haven’t heard about by the time it comes round.
Which then led instantly onto my next thought, or rather the chain of them. And here we go full conspiracy, what if the ‘alert’ is actually a special signal which activates the debated luciferase or coded info people believe to have been in the recent injections. And as easy as At the flick of a switch, people drop dead. They can say it was heart attacks, and apologise for ‘scaring people to death’ but they won’t mean it. It’ll be another sorry, not sorry. But that’s just crazy talk surely? Creating what would be something like a movie plot for real. Kingsman springs to mind here. Of the phone chips, and related devices to trigger violence, compliance, or whatever was needed to gain control.
Like I said, that surely is crazy talk, which is why I will say it’s a conspiracy theory. A dark one, but not unreasonable given our current circumstances. People with patience are playing a long game, and switched off any feeling for the masses a long time ago, if it was ever there to begin with. Using words again to start the mental worry, ‘frightening and Armageddon’ used there to give a very dramatic feeling, you know, like the ones they try and convey in the disaster movies, which may well have been laying the foundations for where we are now. Looked at in my article Prepped for disaster, or clever programming?
But the idea of an alarm, makes me think of the Eloi in the Time Machine film, where the siren starts and they fall into a trance and walk to their doom unaware, hypnotised by the sound and following an automatic response they have been ingrained with. Or the second Kingsman film even, where there is a plot to get rid of millions of people through poisioned illegal drugs. One which meant they couldn’t stop dancing, so would inevitably dance themselves to death. Then they were put in cages and stored in large empty stadium. Might be nothing of anything, but I can’t help thinking it was relevant, showing them in The main arena despite there being no ‘audience’ for the ‘entertainment’. Or it really was just a film, with no hidden meanings or connotations to anything. And maybe the ‘frightening alert’ is just a normal system they are testing with nothing to be wary of at all. But I can’t help thinking that maybe it isn’t…
(c) K Wicks
It seems their hand… (poetry)
It seems their hand
They’ve overplayed
And their welcome
Well out stayed
A box of worn tools
That wants to dictate
Creating a landscape
Of worry and hate
Of numbers and rules
And pawns for a plan
Not about living
But more if they can
Crush and contain
What it is that we do
Wanting to change us
To be something new
A dampened down version
To do as we’re told
The future’s not bright
In fact it’s been sold
But we are complicit
If we do go along
With all of the bullshit
And all of the wrong
That is now around us
And more than on show
Time keeps ticking on
And further we go
~
To whatever end
(c) K Wicks
The Dead Walk The Earth – Article reading 📚
Your Digital Informer
Like having a Tamagotchi, but instead of leaving it at home while you go to school, you stay home and it goes to school for you. That particular ‘toy’ may not be the best example as I was a bit older and missed the craze at the time. But wasn’t surprised to see recreations of people in adulthood mimicking their behaviour as a child with one. Literally dropping everything and rushing home from school to ‘feed it’ or find it had died. Probably a strange compliance test at the time, to see who would prioritise technology over real life. Enough it turns out. I too have arranged things around television when younger, so although didn’t engage with the Tamagotchi craze, I was taken by technology and arranging your schedule around it. As many now have to, or choose willingly to.
But the new and slightly weirder piece of tech for this particular article, is the AV.1 robot. By a company called No Isolation. Sounds all friendly and benign doesn’t it? And has already been implemented in the UK, with more on the horizon. And its purpose? For attending school in place of children who for various reasons, cannot attend themselves, with the idea being that they can still take part in the lesson, and ‘be part of it’ remotely. Like I said, sounds all friendly and benign on the face of it. But as with many things, I like to give a bit of extra thought to these types of things.
Aside from the fact that if a child is too ill to attend school is still expected to learn and take part like everyone else from their sickbed, being a bit weird. It’s the fact there will be a constant electronic link, sometimes visual (as that is not compulsory apparently, only audio), between the child and the school. Which can and probably will be monitored by a third party. Also keep in mind, any device provided by the state through schools to families is owned by them, and they get to listen to what they want, record what they want, and can check the device any time they want. But it is an extra link directly into the home, through the child, rather than just being a direct link for the child to the school and teachers. They really do need to maintain the children’s constant indoctrination don’t they? Off sick and can’t cope? No problem, we’ll install a system so that you will never feel behind or left out – oh, yes, that does mean you will be constantly monitored, and assessed, and judged, and expected to perform as per requirement and timetable. Perhaps overlooking that many of those things are what people struggle with, but by enforcing them at home as well as in the compulsory institutions, you just make it so there is nowhere to go to get away from it. If you can’t cope with school, then having it in your house everyday may not be the best solution and can cause a whole host of other anxiety issues directly within what should be a ‘safe space’. But maybe that’s just me that sees it like that.
Either way, having something mechanical to be a stand in for your physical presence is odd to me. Because while it appears to be a stand in, you are required mentally to be there, logged in and giving it your energy and attention. Many adults and children struggle with zoom meetings, and interactions of that nature being constantly required. It seems that although it’s not you being there physically, the draining aspect of what it requires is too much. People can gain energy from being around other people, recharging and bouncing off each other. It can help to get you through a day, or not for some. But the compulsory nature of school anyway bothers me, and how they have tried to structure family life around it. Catchment areas, grades, expectations, financial requirements, scrutiny, rules, restrictions and punishments. And that’s just school and a fraction of how much it dictates in a child’s life, and parents. It’s such an intrusive and unhealthy relationship the establishment has with people and their lives. It seems more obvious now than ever.
(c) K Wicks
How It Starts To Tie In – Article reading
March sunrise – fiery sky
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Perceptions of What We Think We See
This is a follow up piece to Perceptions of self, because on top of the three ideas of how we view ourselves, how we view others and how we think others view us, a curve ball gets added.
Ai generated ‘humans’ are becoming part of our everyday experiences with screens and ‘entertainment’, whether we are aware of their presence or not. So, within that, our perceptions and expectations of ourselves are affected, as with all the previous shifts in the commercial industries. Film, TV, fashion, music, news, politics, finance etc. All the areas that are used to have a system and standard for you to be conditioned to and to become part of. People learn an awful lot from faces, I think maybe that is overlooked sometimes. Not by those who know, it is very much thought about.
We learn about many things by watching others as we grow up and go through life. We begin to understand ourselves and the world around us, often steering away from the types who hold us down or back from life. And many people have built-in senses to detect things in others, we call it instinct I guess, but through time and process we have developed skills to try and recognise signals and warnings. Although, I believe they are greatly affected by environment and well placed and nurtured false triggers.
So, enter into that arena, a new range of ‘faces’ and ‘people’ to infiltrate the social landscape. We have that going with real people too, personal identity and who you think you are seems to be Big business these days. And maybe that is helped by the curve ball I mentioned. Where we now have to factor in what it is we might be comparing ourselves against, and to be honest, we always should have been, but I believed that was towards other humans. And even then I finally twigged that it was a skewed standard being pushed on society. That many people have a perception of something that didn’t actually exist other than in the mind, hoping for it to be reality so much, that actual reality gets overlooked or put aside. But they do say, you create your own reality. You can see why the lines may have become a bit blurred.
Now we have that extra component, creating a new reality alongside and within the one we currently have. A virtual and artificial one as they call it, infiltrating us by way of technology. Because without screens and a power source, it doesn’t exist. We however, need a power source to exist too, but food, water and rest seems to be enough to sustain ourselves. Quite independent of technology. The other world however, cannot. Maybe that’s why they would like people to be 6g antennas, so that there is a constant source of ‘power’ if we did switch everything off and reset it. They become fully integrated with us with a view to switching us off before we do it to them. A self-preservation mechanism that was either programmed or developed. But that goes to the far-fetched extreme, like the Matrix portrayal as us being batteries and ‘scorching the sun’. This is a more behind the scenes, insidious integration that almost seamlessly slips into being part of your life. So smooth you almost don’t notice. Almost…
(c) K Wicks
Myths, Monsters and Legends – Article reading
A Quantum Leap, in Dreams
Remember the TV show Quantum Leap? I used to thoroughly enjoy watching it, the funny yet poignant tasks Sam had to complete each time. Just trying to find that final leap to get home, and I guess, be himself?
But I thought of it again recently, in relation to dreams. Thinking although you might remain as you (some people are themselves and sometimes not in dreams I suspect), you are transported to different places, and times. And as we don’t actually know what happens when we dream, or where our consciousness wanders to if it is indeed away from our physical realm, who can say for sure?
Dreaming and sleep have been the subject of many studies and experiments, so is of interest to ‘the establishment’ in some format. Yet I wonder about the distinction between what we know as awake or asleep, the conscious and subconscious hours of our lives. Slipping in and out of worlds and states of being on a consistent loop. And in that, is it possible that we either create realms with the ideas and thoughts of dreams? Imagination Land episodes spring to mind from South Park. My article Creating a nightmare reality, covers that angle a bit.
Or, the other possibility. That there are things already existing on the ‘other side’, which can potentially gain access to us and our thoughts through sleep. And maybe, just sometimes for some people, they aren’t confined to the hours of slumber. Could be that some follow people back, once they have been disturbed and become ‘attached’. Are we sure that when we wake we leave where we were? And are we so sure that once we do wake, have we awoken to reality, or just another layer of a dream. Like the film inception depicted.
People write of terrifying things lurking in thoughts, dreams, ideas, other dimensions and times. Many people. Is it just an idea that hints at a darkness in ourselves, that the dream world allows to run wild? Or it is already something running wild, waiting to become part of someone’s thoughts, searching out a ‘host’ for its psychological torment and access to the physical realm? Quite possibly it is none of that, and while we sleep there is just a jumble of electrical signals forming strange and vivid ‘performances’ of life and experience which some people then imprint and retain knowledge of. Maybe they are for purpose and hold meaning, or maybe, it is just sleep and they really are just dreams…
(c) K Wicks
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