I think they wanted us to imagine it would be the machines that rise up and ruin humanity, with the view of ‘how could they have known?’ and ‘they had the best intentions’. But as speculated in Is It Really the Machines We Should Fear? It would appear that it is very much other humans we should be fearing, and this is not a new revelation to me, but seems to be to others.

The propaganda and fad machine rolled out thick and heavy for the instilled vision of machines gone bad with such films as Terminator, iRobot, A Space Odyssey, Robocop, Transformers and all sorts of other sci-fi and fantasy films, as well Star Trek putting forward a weird hybrid version to bridge that gap of human and machine, giving us The Borg.

And we had another idea give to us many years ago now, where we were told to think a future of being held down and controlled in a way we could merely imagine at that time, looking at other countries and history to apparently avoid that. In fact, the opposite seems to have occurred, with the regime of control seeming more familiar than a healthy, prosperous future of people, ideas and a positive energy spreading through humanity.

I will share a quote from a film here, and is one I have shared before, but it is even more apt for this piece. From the film Tomorrowland, and Hugh Laurie delivers this piece rather well –

“Let’s imagine… if you glimpsed the future, you were frightened by what you saw, what would you do with that information? You would go to… the politicians, captains of industry? And how would you convince them? Data? Facts? Good luck! The only facts they won’t challenge are the ones that keep the wheels greased and the dollars rolling in. But what if… what if there was a way of skipping the middle man and putting the critical news directly into everyone’s head? The probability of wide-spread annihilation kept going up. The only way to stop it was to show it. To scare people straight. Because, what reasonable human being wouldn’t be galvanized by the potential destruction of everything they’ve ever known or loved? To save civilization, I would show its collapse. But, how do you think this vision was received? How do you think people responded to the prospect of imminent doom? They gobbled it up like a chocolate eclair! They didn’t fear their demise, they re-packaged it. It could be enjoyed as video-games, as TV shows, books, movies, the entire world wholeheartedly embraced the apocalypse and sprinted towards it with gleeful abandon. Meanwhile, your Earth was crumbling all around you. You’ve got simultaneous epidemics of obesity and starvation. Explain that one! Bees and butterflies start to disappear, the glaciers melt, algae blooms. All around you the coal mine canaries are dropping dead and you won’t take the hint! In every moment there’s the possibility of a better future, but you people won’t believe it. And because you won’t believe it you won’t do what is necessary to make it a reality. So, you dwell on this terrible future. You resign yourselves to it for one reason, because *that* future does not ask anything of you today. So yes, we saw the iceberg and warned the Titanic. But you all just steered for it anyway, full steam ahead. Why? Because you want to sink! You gave up! That’s not the monitor’s fault. That’s yours.”

And from these things, I take it that they know what people are like, with all the decades they’ve had, and the billions they have spent on working people out through various means, and then manipulating them thereafter highlighted in Consumerism, The First Fad and Nudge Nudge. But what happens next is where the films and speculations come in, because some of them are based on presumptions and results of animal experiments, discussed in The Beautiful Mice. And I believe they have run human experiments too that we don’t know about, in places in don’t have access to, on people who don’t know that is their purpose. As we could be too, one of my out there thoughts is to consider that we are the ones who have had our entire lives fabricated, like a buckled cross between The Truman Show and Dark City. But I have a feeling that is for another article. It’s the now we are part of that will pave the way for what comes, so is an important stage and step in the whole process, so make sure you know when now is…

(c) K Wicks

A reading of my article – Pod Life 2

(c) K Wicks

It slipped so easily into our consciousness. Can we even remember a time before it was there. Of being told what is and what was, diligently listening, learning, repeating and continuing the cycle of information and conditioning. We have been shaped and primed for what we see before us, quite possibly for all the reactions that have come about. The ones For and Against, the traitors, the resistance, the villains. All laid out with plots and players, lead characters and the obligatory NPC’s on the side to bulk it out and give it a bit of credibility.

And many have likened how it is in society now, to many a movie storyline, myself included in Films, real life twisted or just fantasy, and Prepped for disaster, or clever programming? So, again I am drawn to the possible conclusion that we are the ones creating this reality based on what we have been fed and programmed to react to and respond with. Our normal go to is to find the familiar, to search out something that makes us feel comfortable and safe. What else could be more familiar than feeling you have done this before, or seen it before. Instilling a strange new type of Deja-vu in people, but a digital overlayed version. If you have ever had actual Deja-vu, you will know it is not always a good feeling, and in fact can be very unsettling seeing or doing something you know for a fact you haven’t done before. Yet the memory is present from it, clear as day. That’s quite a different feeling from a scenario or idea being somewhat familiar, as it has been portrayed in a different setting by chosen people, yet is meant to evoke the feeling of having ‘seen it before’.

A neatly written and played out game of society taking place within a construct. A sinister game of Monopoly, where like the board game version, they only see the banker, the owners of property and the money. People, their lives and feelings are a small side part to them, and quite an annoyance to them it would seem unless there is a monetary value and profit to be had. But as we are here and so far have been necessary in some capacity for their industrial revolution, they need to factor us in to current and future plans. Whether that be controlling us, reducing us or just incorporating us into a technological landscape, who knows for sure, but all seem to be a possibility because that is how it is made to be. Focusing people’s thoughts towards a narrow channel, steering the ideas and outcome with predictability and influence, just as has been done for more than an age. Shaping society for the present and the future, by erasing or rewriting the past, confusing people and changing the goalposts of life to maintain a strange half-life of sorts. Letting us have a bit of free range now and again, or giving us a few extra incentives or rewards to make it seem as though we are getting somewhere, or moving forward as a collective human race. Part of the blag. Because inevitably the rewards and pats on the head, get followed by punishments and new rules to fit into their plan and set up, and maybe that’s why sometimes it feels like we have been here before. Because we have…

(c) K Wicks