Month: February 2024

Star Forts

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These are some rather spectacular sites, where fortified structures appear ingrained as part of the landscape, rather than merely sat upon it. Displaying a geometric beauty we do not often find in today’s projects.

They are found all over the world, apparently there 1,734 known sites, over 105 countries. That’s quite a widespread technique, and really does then beg the question, what was their true purpose? Are they just for aesthetics, even though they cannot be observed in their full splendour except from above?

Many have been destroyed, lost to time or simply remodelled or built over, so who know how many there really were. But the interesting tale of why is the usual type of thing, apparently, they were all built for extra strategic defensive purposes. It is said “Star forts, or bastion forts, are a type of fortification that first emerged more than 500 years ago in response to the growing power of cannons on the battlefield, with sloped walls and angled bastions that allowed defenders better coverage above any attackers“.

Now, make of that what you will, and if you read about specific countries, they will tell you that they all starting doing it around the same time, and nearly even bankrupted their countries to do it. So, what was this invading force all over Europe and the world around the 1500’s that required everyone to adopt the same building style – for random forts dotted here and there? Not sure myself, but if you have an idea of what that might have been, please do comment with that. I have already taken a brief look at 1522, because of a social media comment from Jane Goodall saying we need to reduce population to that of 500 years ago to restabilise society. But I found that in that year alone, there really was quite a bit going on, which would not lead me to believe it was stable at all, despite the claimed population number at the time. For example, we had – The Knights’ Revolt in Germany, A terrible plague in Rome, The first major slave revolt in North America occurred, The Battle of Bicocca, a major earthquake in Almeria, Spain, The Treaty of Windsor was signed to name but a few. In one year, so they say. So, to think that it was all smiles, roses and opportunity just because there were less people, is a strange fallacy to hold onto. And as I have mentioned in my article A Working Strategy, it was in 1388 they put laws and acts in place to heavily control and utilise the population in the UK. So, I am again surprised that we had enough people, skills, materials and money to undertake such elaborate projects on a vast scale, keeping in mind cathedrals and churches were also being built around this time as the monasteries fell. Seems there is still much to mull over…

(c) K Wicks

The Machine of Time

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Although I have written two pieces already called – Time, and The Machine, this one is in reference to a couple of films and of the general concept of time. How we are bound by it and beholden to it, marching forward and we are powerless to stop it.

Chronesthesia – the name for mental Time travel, which if you have seen the Butterfly Effect film, think of it like that. But personally, I had already thought of it in relation to thoughts, when considering nostalgia and future worries as thought processes we have. Which intrinsically require us to mentality ‘time travel’ to do either.

Back To The Future – (1984) – another classic, and shows the folly of going backwards. But also the paradox that gets created by meddling with time as they call it.

The Time Machine (1960) – a great film, and story from H.G. Wells. But unlike the above film, showed how you couldn’t actually go back any further than your current time. As he was away in the future for a week, and when he returned, a week had passed.

Harry Potter 3 – A timepiece for travel was used, but allowing for an overlay of going backwards before it ‘wore off’. But as you are already there, two now exist. Almost more as interdimensional time beings who evaporate when the time is up. Slightly different way of portraying it, I guess.

Dr Who episode (Weeping Angels) – staring at a statue transports a woman back in time on a one-way ticket. Removing the physical self from that time entirely with no way to come back, so disrupting the future and the past simultaneously.

If we didn’t have the sun up and sun down each day, and we didn’t show visible signs of aging, how would we keep tabs on it? And if we didn’t have calendars, clocks and records, how would we know when we are? This is why perhaps it is so easy to see how things can be written and rearranged within history to paint a picture of a placement in time. To think of before, or of how people were and society was, giving reason for how things are now. Or so it would appear. But it is always now, and technically you are always travelling through time, not alongside it, or over it, but through it. Which is why it seems we cannot sidestep it, or avoid it, or change its speed or trajectory, only hold on for dear life as they say, and see if we can make it to what they might say was ‘your time’…

(c) K Wicks

War of The Minds

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It was a pre laid trap, a virus, war, disaster and ‘aliens’. It would be a war for the worlds but in a different way. Played in the mind, just as the experimental radio show of it was, for testing the water, Laying The Foundations for a takeover of society.

Two things about this recent episode in our society reminded me of war of the worlds separately along the way. Firstly the idea a virus could wipe out a species completely, of course we are happy about that when it’s the aliens succumbing to it. Not so much when it’s us. But the idea gets planted, that a virus can eliminate your foe.

Secondly, the ‘blood clots’ that seem to have been a consequence of certain products, which in some images look rather like the creeping tentacles of the sprayed red mist. Growing inside their host instead of covering the landscape as they did in the story.

And if you look back through, there are many triggers and influences to steer a thought process. Individually and collectively. To then enhance an idea and amplify its effect on people and helping to shape society and how it functions. Or doesn’t, as is the current situation.

Where those triggers have perhaps all been activated at once, amongst chaos, threats, and a never-ending stream of doom to wash it all down with. A spoonful of tech helps the mass psychosis go down. And go down it has, seemingly now to be deeply rooted and following its projected path, to whatever end…

(c) K Wicks