Words and their meaning seem rather important in our lives, language being a pivotal form of communication, spoken and written, so easy to understand why so important. And currently we have a murky pool emerging of the redefining of terms and long decided meanings. Which serves a purpose, because if people can’t effectively communicate, then other things become more difficult and can be ultimately frustrating to people, and helps a lack of cohesion. Even between people who speak the same language, may often find they don’t understand each other. A famous quote springs to mind here –

“I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant” ~ Alan Greenspan

That saying could be used for so much these days, but will be necessary for the new hate speech laws they want to enact whenever someone sees it fit to do so. And on that basis, I guess it’s an interesting time to focus on those who believe that hateful speech is in fact being used. So, my question would be I guess, is it because the person had a perception of being hated which makes it so? Or what was said was said with hateful intent or content? And of course, with either option, one must then surely ask, who gets to decide what is considered a hateful feeling? When does a fact become hate? Or an opinion with no feeling whatsoever gets decided by someone who is not feeling what that person is. That’s why it is such a murky area being encouraged, because it will be based on how people feel about things that have been said. Stopping people being able to toughen up and be able to handle basic things and interactions in life, instead keeping them in their feelings and focusing on words, rather than using your thoughts and focusing on what people do. And you really do need both to be functioning to get through life effectively, being able to understand things and have feeling towards them is great, but know when to apply thought and logic and perhaps a little outside perspective.

Don’t go to bed angry, don’t make big decisions when you’re really excited or down, don’t react in the heat of the moment. All sayings to let you know that sometimes feelings takeover, and logic goes out the window for a bit but with time a bit of reason, things look and feel different. If you never learnt to process those things, or have something blocking normal responses like painkillers or other prescription drugs, then it may be extra tricky to manage your emotional responses. And if you happen to be in a position of power or authority, then it can easily be the motivator in what is a disproportionate reaction to merely words, which are not even deemed offensive in the normal walks of life. And you know what they say about that, offence is taken not given. So, can you really punish someone by law for taking words as hatred, when in most cases you cannot prove they were given as such? But I believe that’s the point. People then get distracted by words and their intended meaning and consequence of that perceived intention, rather than paying attention to what is being said, not how you felt when they said it. Because clearly their feelings are not quite as stable as some people may think, with Karen’s now being a thing. Developing ‘thick skin’ as they called it, was something I thought most people knew about, and while it shouldn’t make you seem impervious, it’s necessary to not spend your life being hurt or disappointed. And another of those sayings that seem really apt these days more than ever, stick and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Simple, yet says what it means. And although I knew what it meant at the time as a kid when I heard, I have understood more so when older why it’s important, and what happens when it is lacking in some.

But back to words, and other importance of written and spoken language. Namely the use of words to cast spells, what they associate with Witchcraft these days, to give you a medieval view of the term and of witches and warlocks, hypnotising people with their ‘spells’. Makes me think of modern usages of them, casting being used for a ‘magical’ process of creating illusions for entertainment, with actors and specially written dialogue to capture your thoughts. Sounds quite a spell like to me, and on that basis we do indeed have witches, wizards and warlocks around today.

The word craft can itself mean a skill to deceive others, rather than just for a hobby or such, which leads me to think of another word to have it attached of late. Minecraft, which may indeed just be a simple game to be enjoyed, but I have suspicions. Yet the term being crafty is there, for deviousness and deception, with spells being cast and thoughts being harnessed in a certain way. Almost as if the outburst of feelings from them is being harvested to drive on the ever-growing vibration it creates. And if you would like an idea of just how far it is said that thought creates reality, you might like to read my piece Is it really the machine we should fear?, specifically the part about Tulpamancy. Many have noticed however that words have been weaponised in a way not seen before, propaganda and its uses now reaching into every aspect of people’s lives. Not to bring clarity or to further our ability to discover and communicate, no, it seems to be there to confuse and divide us, while being manipulated into dastardly schemes and regimes. And they really would like people to be too stupid to notice or understand, so if they are too busy arguing amongst themselves, or don’t have the right language or understanding to say anything, it means they are less likely to ever stand together. Or so they think…

(c) K Wicks

They want you to label yourself, it helps. I have already speculated on it being helpful to the establishment for you to have problems or differences that don’t ‘fit in’ with society, covered in articles such as More Than Pain gets Killed, An Error But A Big One and a chapter in my book Meeting in the Middle of Nowhere called Labels (the chapter is available as an article).

We are led to believe in previous times that people who had mental struggles were put into asylums, the weak and feeble minded, simpletons who would never contribute to society or be capable. Sort of sounds quite helpful at first glance, to assist with a small section in need, to alleviate the burden on others. The reality it turns out is something quite different, because when you look at the history we are able to look at, it actually differs from that tale. Instead, asylums were used for all sorts of people they wanted to either remove from society, experiment on or who had suffered emotional trauma and actually needed to be helped to deal with life. Not removed from it and sometimes then being put through even worse trauma than the initial event. And this is where we aren’t so different from those times of 150 years ago at all. It’s just now there is a whole business model of profits surrounding it, and a vast network to implement it, helping to convince people they need ‘fixing’ in some way, either mentally, physically or emotionally. And sadly, often the need to think you actually need fixing comes from the very place that says it can fix you. No real surprises there. Create the problem, offer the solution, appear the saviour.

For years though, they have only really had access to people directly, for example if they went to the doctors themselves, or spoke to someone else, or their family intervened and got the authorities involved. And some have been set up along the way, to appear mentally ill when needed to either be a scapegoat, or for it to be a get out of jail free card, as we have seen in recent years in multiple countries. Now though, people are lining up to be diagnosed with something, to have a label and category they can believe neatly identifies them, or something about them. But why? Why do the authorities want people to be broken and in need? Why indeed.

Think of times past, of how the poor and ill were apparently treated. They say it was a community affair at first, looking after your own and immediate others. Then as places grew and religion took over, the church decided to be in charge of that type of thing, collection of donations, creating work and helping to distribute supplies to those in need. Little side note here though, that there has been a system of cashing in on the sick for a while, as back in the days of leprosy, it is said you had to apply for a license to beg and were given a set amount of money you had to ‘earn’, and then miraculously you were cured. After the church came the system of government, with their workhouses and new regime to single out the poor and sick and put them into large buildings built for purpose. Now, I imagine that was a bit of a culture shock in itself, apparently suddenly having all the rather large and imposing institutional building popping up here, there and everywhere. And to then find yourself herded into one because someone somewhere has decided a new ‘social standard’ must have been quite destabilising. As with today, we are seeing a similar but upgraded version, where they tear down the old and install the new, redefine the terms of law, and what they deem as social needs. Back then we are told people were encouraged to shun and despise the poor, mentally ill and infirm, that we have always been looking for ways to make it better and to ‘treat’ them.

Unfortunately to me, it now seems that was a guise to hide the fact they were doing the opposite. Creating the slums, to then blame the people and their ‘lack of education’, moving them towards housing carefully placed by the powers that be, for the jobs they wanted you to do – the industrial revolution. But they had to get rid of what you did before, where you lived before, so you think it’s your choice and it’s the only way forward. That also feeds nicely into then forcing everyone into compulsory education, and again putting a new strain on people’s mentality and behaviour. And again, I think of now, and how they are forcing people to change with removing industries, burning down whatever they need to push their ideal of what they require from society next.

And part of that appears to be confusion and a constant need for a prescription. Because those things are what make them lots of money, and create an industry so vast and far-reaching it’s almost hard to believe. With of course, a rather sinister and handy system of control that surrounds it, making you dependent on them. That helping hand and thing to ‘look after you’ was actually just grooming you your whole life, to be accepting of what they ask in return – taking your money in return for ‘services’ in the form of tax, then seeming as if there is now an implied ‘relationship’ occurring. Where they force you to go to them for ‘free’ education, healthcare and law enforcement. But it’s not free if you have paid for it, and it’s not free if you don’t have a choice – as with any other service you pay for, you are usually allowed to stop if it’s no longer what you want, or doesn’t provide what they promise to – and get your money back. But this one is different, you are paying with your time and money to entertain it, and time is far more valuable than money. But from us they take both, and pretend it’s normal, when in reality it is anything but.

That is where I feel the system of labels really comes in handy for the establishment, as it keeps people falling into the traps of society, and once they are in it’s hard to get out. We all know they use it against people when required, as some women have known for the longest time, and many others are catching up. Ask yourself, what purpose does it serve for a hefty portion of the population to believe they are mentally weak, or unstable enough to warrant being put on strong chemicals? Is it just so people keep lining up for those prescriptions and the eye-watering amounts of revenue generated from them? Or is it also because those chemicals interrupt the normal human energy flow, making it actually harder to find your feet and get past your bad patch, prolonging it, changing it into something weirder, deeper and even more confusing. Life can be extremely hard work at times, and I do understand why some may feel the need for assistance, and it would be really nice to think there is something out there to help you, listen to you and want you to get better. But in all honesty, the government isn’t it…

(c) MKW Publishing

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