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So many now choose… (poetry)

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So many now choose

To focus their thoughts

Efforts and time

To more than we’re taught

Because it would seem

That the system they teach

Is more to control

And gain greater reach

It’s not about learning

And indeed never was

But spreading their ethos

And ideals just because

It suited their purpose

To condition a nation

To give them the keys

To the whole population

So when the time came

It appeared in the bag

But as it unfolded

There seemed a big snag

It started as small

Then started to grow

Numbers got bigger

And started to show

Something was wrong

And not what they said

More started digging

And pulling the thread

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And it all began to unravel

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Not all the same

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Another of Grandpa’s analogies that helped me understand how things are and why things cannot be as we wish, or as we may have perceived them to be. I guess I must have been in my 20’s when he put this one to me. I believe we were talking about socialism and people on benefits, possibly because I had not quite grasped yet the finer points of people, yet thought I knew about society. I didn’t understand why people just wanted handouts, really wanted them on an ongoing basis. Here is what he said

You have three people who start equal in wealth, and have a farm each to grow beans.

The first farmer works really hard and gets a good crop, the second farmer has not such a good year, but still worked hard enough, but got less. The third farmer couldn’t be bothered and didn’t grow any beans.

Socialism = the first farmer must share out his good crop, benefitting the lazy farmer as well as the second farmer. So each year, there is no incentive for the third farmer to do better, and can make the first and second farmer not want to bother.

Capitalism = first farmer buys out third farmer and owns more.

Communism = All farmers must grow the same, lazy is not an option.

That’s a black and white view of what was put forward or at least how I viewed it. Because the lines become a bit blurry it seems between socialism and communism. And as I have gotten older, capitalism appears to be so very heartless, therefore it doesn’t seem the way forward if we are to benefit as a group.

I asked someone once I knew who was on benefits for a number of years after a MH incident, which was valid initially. But after 5 years or so I asked “when are you going to get back out there, into the workplace?” The answer disappointed me very much. It was this “well, I’m just going to stay on benefits for a bit, to work out what I want to do with my life”. I was shocked, not gonna lie. This was someone close to me in my life at the time, so not what u was expecting. I was working really hard, trying to build my business, paying taxes and employing people, and was a bit disheartened by that attitude. That the taxpayer was there to buy other people time to sit back, let their kids have no structure and be paid for by handouts and ‘take their time’. Not me. I didn’t like that attitude at all, and chose to not be around it after it becomes obvious you can’t help them along, they will only hold you back. Harsh, but true.

I am not foolish enough to think we can have some utopic society where we are all the same, and have the same wants, needs and goals and it’s all smiles and laughter. That would be weird, but there does need to be some balance to it all. And it woukd be nice to just have unlimited time and resources to be what you want, but whose time are you wasting? Yours.

While we are the whim of a corrupt prevailing attitude from the people on the ground to the people at the top who run the show, there will be no cohesion or way forward. Not yet at least anyway…

(c) K Wicks

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Structures In The Sky

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There has been talk of this of late, with the ongoing scrutiny over ‘chemtrails’, the old Hopi prophecy of end times drawing near when there are cob webs in the sky and that cover the earth. But I have been considering that the man-made trails are merely there to cover something up, although it is entirely plausible still they are of a more nefarious nature. Another theory has been put forward which has quite neatly put together an idea speculating about what it is that is being hidden from us, and has always been hidden so far. But what if that Hopi legend meant something else, that the fabric of our reality would be revealed, and that time as we knew it, would come to an end.

The idea that there might be structures in the sky, or a grid behind what we see might sound far-fetched at first, but when you give it thought, not so much. And with reference films, of course.

Firstly, the holodeck in Star Trek. Particularly one of the next generation films, Insurrection, where they simulate an entire world to abduct people without their knowing. Also many episodes show what can be done with a clever simulation.

The second thought, was of the ceiling in the main hall in Hogwarts, of the HP franchise. The enchanted ceiling which revealed the night sky, galaxies and simulated overhead projections.

There have also been a couple of other movies which made me think that there had been a construction phase of sorts to create what we see as our world.

Time Bandits – a great film with a great storyline, to me anyway. But based around a time map of the universe, where there are loop holes in the structure. And the job of the bandits before they stole the map, was to make the trees. I liked that idea, of being able to make the trees and scenery, but the thought of there being builders of reality, and a ‘behind the scenes’ to what we see, stayed with me.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – the newer one. Another easy to watch film, but with the overall premise of earth having been designed and created, then designated to be demolished. And it was, but no fear, they whipped up another one so it was all ok.

But I wondered then about the idea that we are only here because we have been sanctioned by other beings to be here, who really knows, I definitely don’t, but I’ll keep mulling it over as something doesn’t quite add up with the official narrative…

(c) K Wicks

Quiet Quitting – what does it say about you?

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I have seen talk of what some people have dubbed ‘quiet quitting’ where in some weird silent protest, you stop being productive at work and instead become a dead weight, because you ‘don’t like’ it. Believing in some way it shows up the employer or the workplace as having the issue. And maybe there are issues that need to be dealt with, but not quite sure how not working or communicating said issues is a positive thing.

Maybe I have missed a point or something, but it just sounds like a very childish thing to do, and as well as wasting time and resources for your employer, you are actually wasting your own time and selling yourself short. I have had many jobs, and have left many jobs. I may not have left right away when I knew it wasn’t for me, but I sure as shit didn’t drag everyone else down with me, which is what this sounds like to me.

Instead I took action to either change what I didn’t like about my workplace, management or role, or left to go and work hard somewhere else. It was that simple and covered in my piece Work ethic and employment. Refusing to lower my standards for someone else, rather just accepting that I was no longer of use where I was. Played out in real time in one particular job where the manager was useless, the staff knew it and we were failing as an office because of it, so I reported them. In the meeting to discuss it (I was 21 at the time), the area manager said they knew they knew the manager was crap, but good managers don’t grow on trees, I should lower my standards. And being honest, it was probably one of the best things he could have said, because it shocked me slightly that anyone would expect me to lower my standards to fit a failing system, and it also clearly showed me I was working with the wrong people. When something has run its course important to know when Walking Away is appropriate. By staying and just demotivating yourself, when you could be getting on with that you could or should be doing, seems very counter productive. To me anyway.

I also developed a certain mindset rather early on, that when I quit something it wasn’t a failure on my part, it was a move to stop wasting time and took me a step closer to what I was meant to be doing, whatever that was. It became a positive thing, although that didn’t mean I just went and quit at the drop of a hat, but my length of time at jobs became less and less throughout my 20’s as my confidence, skills and ability developed further. I realised I wouldn’t get what I was seeking from a workplace, or a boss, so at 27 started my own business in admin and finance, making sure I could work to my standard and level of professionalism. If I had lowered my standard, or reduced my interests because of someone else demotivaing me (and there have been many who could have), I quite probably wouldn’t have made it this far, still running my business. And setting up another one a few later later for all my creative endeavours.

Quiet quitting to me, means quitting on yourself, but by using someone else as way of an excuse. Take ownership of your own situation, recognise what it is you don’t like about it, or the person/people causing it, and work to change it, or remove yourself from it. Don’t sink to their level as they say, use it to realise you are not like them.

There are of course, a few people, who are not quiet quitters at all through demotivation, they are simply just lazy and don’t pull their weight, and never did. instead getting their feet under the table and doing as little as possible to get by, and get paid. Furlough really let those people shine through, but looks like many are here to stay, for a short while anyway. There will be many job losses coming over the coming months if the ridiculous and catastrophic energy debacle is allowed to continue. Where only supermarkets and homes will have power, and everything else will be closed or running on rations. Sounds fun doesn’t it? I do understand that now we have a different landscape for work and employment dawning, you can’t train or plan properly anymore and I commend any small businesses that make it through, whatever your attitude. And I don’t blame poeple for not really feeling like their heart is in it anymore, it’s been metaphorically ripped out of their chest in some cases, so being demotivated is a real problem right now, and not through laziness, but sheer worry.

So, we really need people to be thinking about making things work and actually doing it, rather than putting your feet up, switching off and thinking someone else is going to do it for you and not even caring if it works or not. This is your life, take control and take part while you still can…

(c) K Wicks