The First Fad

It’s the 50’s and marketers are trying their best and spending billions of dollars to work out and manipulate consumers. To change the customers habits and behaviours to better suit the corporations needs, rather than be there for the need of the people. My article Consumerism covers that a bit more.

But within these times, technology moved along and a distinct marketing advantage came forth. Television. Huge resources were put into it, much as they are today. They wanted to use television advertising to get to a much larger audience and therefore number of customers (adults), and potential customers (children). And then something happened in TV that caught a generations attention and gave them lots of data to work with apparently in unravelling how to create marketing situations on demand.

Davy Crockett.

The TV series happened and became hugely popular, leading to merchandise, leading to big sales for companies. Then just as they stocked up with more goods, it dropped off. This is apparently what led to then investing in fads, what causes them, how to maintain them, and steer them in the direction required. Being able to influence great numbers of people at once, through clever and psychological campaigns. As you can imagine it didn’t take long for it to move into other areas, if it wasn’t in them already. Military, political, education, medicine and any industry they wanted to boost and use to infiltrate people’s habits and wants. Entertainment was also high on their list it would seem with crazes and fads chucked at us left, right and centre thereafter.

Television helped all that massively, because while they had already been using the media and propaganda for decades, this gave them a whole new reach, and quicker. Now the internet has increased that capacity to an alarming level as has been shown by current events. The fact that recently we have been subject to a rather aggressive marketing campaign, whereby they readily admitted they had a whole team, studying our behaviour to scare us into compliance, covered in my article Nudge, nudge. They didn’t hide it, although didn’t admit they had been studying this idea for quite some time. With many of the systems, procedures and protocols ready for this ‘surprise emergency’, as well as the coordinated media campaign and government regulations across the board, in various countries. Another sign it was not random in any way, to me anyway. And really, as each country has reacted and we have been fed the media stories we are meant to read, things get pushed in the direction they would like. Demanding everyone’s attention, daily briefings, new rules every day, doom threats constantly, weekly clapping rituals, repeating certain phrases over and over. Almost as one would expect when trying to hypnotise people, and condition them to a new way of life. They say it only takes 90 days to form a habit, so the length of time imposed for various restrictions and hoo-ha was more than enough. And some people would have been quite overwhelmed and shocked by the ‘unfolding disaster’ which appeared to be around them, so would have been potentially in a more receptive state to hypnotic and coercive techniques. I wrote a piece about the coercion tactics The three d’s of conversion under coercion for a little more on that.

But we can see around us now that it is all out in the open, and the book I read to find out about all this motivational industry marketing is called The Hidden Persuaders, written in the 50’s when this was unfolding in corporate America. Well, it is no longer hidden, and isn’t confined to America. Global corporations under the guise of international organisations have set their sights on a new fad, and we are slowly moving through the phases of their ‘marketing plan’, to cajole, coerce and convince the masses that it is all ‘for the greater good’. Of lining their pockets is the part they don’t say. More taxes, more money, more richness going all the way to the top, literally starving and choking the people now while they take ever more. It’s relentless and will continue to be until someone pulls the plug on the whole devious scheme to ruin people who have now served their original industrious purpose. And now appear to be needed for their medical cannon fodder and constant surveillance plans, seemingly using a constant stream of ‘illegal immigrants’ as either a distraction, a replacement population, a waiting army, just to upset any local and community cohesion that could take place to fight back at the authorities? It’s anyone’s guess at this stage what their ultimate goal is for this strange situation we find ourselves in, and when it will turn nasty for them. We are encouraged to spend time trying to imagine how bad it is going to get for us, with all the disaster films they have made, Prepped for disaster, or clever programming? covered that a bit, so you don’t need to even use your imagination. But more time needs to be spent on when it does go wrong for them, because things will change afterwards, they will have to. The old times and ways really are going to have to be left behind, but that doesn’t mean you have to follow the sterile, monitored path they have waiting and are trying to steer everyone towards. Making it seem as though that is the only way, because it’s what they have worked so very hard for and it’s what they seem to want. But because everyone didn’t just hand themselves over to their ‘vision’ at the start of the ‘pandemic’, they now have to do it through crazy politicians stumbling over targets of net zero and a very driven marketing campaign of protesters/actors and well placed and timed events. Steering and shaping society and opinions as they want them, introducing music, drugs, lifestyles, motivations, dreams, products, ideas and all sorts of things they wanted you to be aware of, thinking and doing. Don’t ever think they haven’t thought about anything that is a ‘public release’ item, whether it be a media piece or releasing biological agents on the unsuspecting public like they also did in the 50’s and 60’s, they will have given it an awful lot of thought…

(c) K Wicks

We Are Not Obsolete

We harvest energy from the sun and convert it, storing some and using when need. We can perform a range of functions that take a multitude of gadgets, devices and robots (all designed and originally built by people I might add). We can adapt and change if needed. It sounds like they want us to believe we are the old, and AI and robotics is the new.

But I see us as an already incredible functioning system which is the best of both of what they are looking to have instead. And the tinkering and tampering with the systems we have, is leading to disaster in my mind, and in the real world around us. Wanting to have such a great version of two things, that you combine it to make a crappier version of both. And maybe that’s how they see us, as the merged result of mechanics and wiring, that they would like to separate out, to need two things to perform a function. Hardware and usually software is needed for a machine to perform a task, we are both, born with both, which can naturally develop, or can be influenced or rewired. Although to be fair, we have apparently witnessed the results of if you don’t mentally give the software input to work with. To me I guess the example for that was the orphanages in Romania that hit the news a couple of decades ago, neglected children who had no stimulation or care, and were restrained in some cases – so not able to go about the usual pathways the brain and body would find on their own. I also think of our situation as that film Short Circuit, where the military grade robot is struck by lightning and gains a sentient personality, but is then consumed by in insatiable need for learning and ‘input’, so it can learn and develop and gain understanding. It’s seems like one of those silly 80’s movies, but I thought it was a great example of people, machines and ‘simulated life’. I guess The Matrix then moved in and gave us an entirely different perspective on man and machine, just as the terminator films before them. And I have written previously about Is it really the machines we should fear?

Because it seems that people are currently the problem, hiding behind machines. Far more serious than ‘keyboard warriors’, these people actually call the shots on society and people’s lives. And now using said technology to digitally imprison people in the real world, because just like the theory in The Matrix of us being harvested for our energy as ‘batteries’, maybe a need has arisen for them to have a similar type of set up.

To harvest the honey, we set up bees to go about their usual business, but it is in a confined, controlled environment, for our benefit. Their queen is placed so they will follow, they are given a ‘hive’ for them use as a factory to create what will be taken. In our situation, we are the bees, and whatever they want us for, is the honey. Whether it be energy, our thoughts and ideas, our compliance – it is still something they need, or at a minimum want. So, it seems until now, they have provided the perfect ‘factory’ for us, to go about our business, building things for them, fighting wars for them, jumping through hoops for them, just so we are ‘allowed’ to get on. Well, it would now appear that the needs might have changed somewhat, because they seem intent on slowly dismantling the existing infrastructure around us, and replacing us with new bees. But ones which don’t have to work, or produce anything, or on first appearances, do anything at all apart from just be there. Suspicious, isn’t it? We all know it’s not going well with thousands of people being offered everything on a plate, riling up the ones who have mostly not had anything handed on a plate, and in fact, are having their plates currently taken away from them. There is a price to all this, and one we won’t be able to measure just yet, but the expectations of people arriving are being manipulated for gain, just as they are using the people already here. But if you require a new mindset and outcome from what you previously had, then you need to overhaul the business and change the staff, which is what it feels like they are doing. Out with the old, in with the new, corporate style.

Because it looks very much to people On the ground, that there is a replacement going on, of the current systems, traditions, culture and people. If you read the Kalergi Plan, it does seem awfully close to what is occurring. Manufacture issues abroad, create displaced people, move them to where you need them, which then helps to break down and displace wherever they go. A problem is not solved by moving it along, but that is what politicians do, usually because they don’t know what to do, and won’t be there for too long in that position, so it doesn’t really matter about solving anything. Problems? Those are for people, not politicians. They just collect their salary, expenses, perks, pay-off and everything else that seems to make them really quite wealthy from ‘serving the people’. Makes you realise why it’s such a tight knit group, that gravy train has been going for quite some time and none of them want it to stop, not here or any other country. Power has very much gone to their head, we’ve seen it all over, laughing at the camera when asked serious questions, not answering, looking like a petulent teenager. I could be talking about any number of people there from a number of countries, weird, isn’t it? As if all those ‘Young leaders of the future’ that have ‘penetrated the cabinets’ aren’t quite all there. It’s noticeable, and people have wondered whether they are just so devoid of proper feelings that they aren’t able to show proper emotions, or answer very straightforward questions, or be able to maintain a normal interaction with an average person. Almost as if they have been tampered with, not just inserted into a cabinet, but rewired and programmed for a set purpose and cannot deviate, even if they wanted to. Invasion of the body snatchers style, but just with the mind. But the cold hard reality of it, is that these people are not acting in the best interests of anybody but themselves, and definitely not the millions of people they are charged with governing. They are not fit for our purpose, but appear to be for theirs. And just as our usefulness here in the UK appears to have run its course for the controllers, I can’t help but wonder what fate awaits all those ‘leaders’ who have played such a pivotal role in this, once their purpose has run its course…

(c) K Wicks

Ancient Siberian virus

So, I saw a new scientist article yesterday about discoveries in Siberia, of seven apparently, ancient viruses being found in the ice.

And now I’m thinking of the book I wrote…😬

The Unknown – A discovery in the Siberian tundra turns the entire world upside down, rewriting history and setting seemingly unstoppable forces in motion. In a race against time in a quickly changing world, they must learn to adapt to survive. Will people accept their fate or fight to save an existence that was always meant to end? Can humanity survive?

Chapter 1 – available to read for free here

(c) K Wicks

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Where Does It All Go?

An honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay is how the saying went. But when you factor in taxes, it doesn’t quite work like that. Here’s how it goes.

You work for the day, and get paid, cash in the hand. On your way home, a bloke who lives somewhere stops you, and says “I need to take 20% of that money, to sort out people over there somewhere”. But how does he know that person is going to do what he says? He doesn’t. Therefore, a social contract begins to emerge, of promises and plans for that money. To ‘help the community’ and ‘for the greater good’.

That’s a very basic breakdown of how tax can look. And that’s just income tax. Add to that national insurance, stamp duty, corporation tax, inheritance tax, capital gains tax, vat and all the other things they can and do tax you on. For the average Joe though, who has already had money taken, it’s an extra bit of thievery on top. Because it’s not necessary. There are all these middle men who have shoehorned themselves between a person and living their life. No longer earn cash and spend it. No, that would be too easy. Now you earn money, they take some. You put it safely in a bank, they take some. You want to buy something; merchant fees then take some more. And people can’t just sell things anymore, you need licenses, regulators, and permissions as well as fees and charges. Same with building things, all have to be applied for, usually for a fee, then approved. You can’t just work hard, build your own house and live a life anymore, there are a hundred hoops to jump through just to even be allowed a roof over your head in some cases. And it’s all wrong. Especially as we have it so clearly thrown in our faces, that they cannot be trusted with all that money they are stealing from people, who have invested their time and lives to earn it in some cases. So, they take your time and money, then actually charge you for that right if they can.

We’ve also seen astronomical spending in the last few years under the guise of an emergency, all that money they hoarded for years, then just created out of thin air, eye-watering amounts. On nothing essentially, it just ‘disappeared’ into this bank account and that, for this contract and that, private discussions and deals made to take more, give less and laugh right in your face along the way. Printing the number and figures they are wasting, to really rub it in. Yet still we give them more, and more, and more. And all the while they are slowly draining what there is, putting spanners in the works here, there and everywhere. The kind of thing you might do to something you want to destroy, steal everything they have, smash everything they like and have, make it so they can’t have anything else. Too harsh?

We can’t overlook that while they took with one hand, they appeared to be giving back with another – offering debt willy nilly, tying people in to unreasonable social contracts and systems just so they could live, charging more if you can’t afford to pay – bank charges being a classic for that. “Oh, you’re overdrawn and have no money, well, we’re going to take another £25.00, which will make it worse, and then we will keep doing it…” no helping hand there, blunt corporatism that should have been warning of what was to come. It was never about people having enough, it was about seeing how much they could take, and keep taking. Convincing people along the way that it was necessary, and there was no way society could ever function without the ‘elected government’ to guide you, take your money and hold it over you, like an abusive parent who won’t let you go it alone. Tying those apron strings ever tighter, realising more money gives you more freedom, and if they don’t have that over you, you won’t listen or do what they tell you. So it becomes a self-perpetuating loop, of dependence, because if we didn’t keep feeding them all that money to lord it over us, and implement dangerous and destructive policies and procedures, then they wouldn’t have that over us. For people who are wealthy and well-positioned, the last thing they would really want to do is help others get to that position as well. Because if everyone has that, no-one is deemed wealthy and you can’t wield influence if everyone is special, or talented, or is well-positioned, it makes it null and void. Like if suddenly everyone decided to not recognise money as real, to view it literally as Monopoly money straight out of the box, pieces of paper that someone grabbed and declared themselves the banker, buying all the property and charging people rent, fees and utilities. But you can end that game, can’t you? Just get up and walk away, stop playing, ignore the ‘banker’ and suddenly they are just a regular person with no sway over anything, I can’t help thinking there is a lesson in that, and one we should be paying attention to…

(c) MKW Publishing