It seems that people are becoming less compatible with the environment as time goes on. Over the years hearing about various issues people have with things, food allergies, sunlight allergies, hearing about things like epi pens, pet and animal allergies and so on. At first I really did think it was just a thing that humans have, that some randomly suffer from what is termed ‘an unlucky set of genes’ or when they say ‘it’s hereditary’. I just thought that was true, and it may well be, but I started to wonder if it wasn’t, or at least for some issues maybe it wasn’t, and perhaps it was environment.

I have had many a discussion about nature versus nurture, and whether you are set up to fail with your set of genes and family coding you are given. Or if you are flexible enough to overcome all situations and ‘come good’ as they say, even if you have been held back or held down in such a way that has quite detrimental effects. See my article Plants and People for a thought about what happens when you restrict the conditions for growing and development, it’s a much harder road thereafter.

But with the allergies that have sprung up over the years – peanut, pets, hay-fever, wheat, dairy etc. And all the changes being implemented in the environment with GM crops, manipulating insects to carry certain pathogens (see ticks and plum island for a previous run of that type of thing), and animals being given things so that we get to ingest product manipulated at source. It seemed prudent to give thought to what else might be caused by these things, or be the cause of these things.

Mentioned already in Fruit and Nut, about how streamlining certain proteins in products may have had a knock-on effect.

In The Dark looked at how perhaps it is part of a plan to not block out the sun, but just maybe hamper our ability to be in it.

A Spoonful of Honey and Playing Chicken has considered the option that those mainly targeted foods are the best ones for us, so they too need to be ‘tinkered with’.

Insects, livestock, wildlife, plant life and the environment generally appear to be getting a makeover. Like in my article School, But Bigger, but not just corporatism for us, looks like the whole of nature is expected to fall in line and jump on the Monopoly board called society.

But when there have been various discussions about Downsizing the populations of the world, and of having warehouses filled with the ‘living dead’ for spare body parts and such, I think alarm bells should maybe be ringing for many people. Of what we are viewed as, or what we have been earmarked for, should very much be of concern for people. Animals have been in the open firing line for some time, and not just the ones in experimental situations like The Beautiful Mice. All the others in nature who have been subject to change and policies for a while inside and outside of farming and agriculture – cows, pigs, badgers, birds, fish and various other things you hear off here and there. Making headlines because it is meant to, for purpose. Just like the recent milk issue rumbling on, making people react, boycott, pay attention and demand transparency. Personally, I think we are past that point, they already have all their fingers in all the pies, and whatever game is being played now seems just to keep the people busy squabbling over things that have already happened. If they are telling you about it, it’s because it’s already in place, or it’s a distraction.

But what isn’t a distraction, is your life, and how it’s being intruded upon in so many different ways, but to be fair, it always was. All the systems were part of the previous model, the NHS, the schools, the small towns and villages where you could ‘feel safe’ and everything was there. And I understand why people look back to what they see or remember as a ‘better time’, to think there was a time when it wasn’t so insidious, but for someone as cynical as me, there wasn’t a ‘better time’ created by government as such. It was a different time, where people were held down and herded along in different ways.

Creating the mentality they needed at the time, those quiet and safe times of the 50’s and 60s that people talk about and remember, were off the back of the war and severe emotional trauma and distress, as well as a number of generations being removed from a family. The long-term effect of that may just have provided a more compliant population, a quieter one, an easier one to condition to then pass on to their children. To then create a new environment when needed for the same downtrodden mentality, just like we are seeing today, it’s just a different method and Perhaps a different motive…

(c) K Wicks