(c) K Wicks
Morning cosmos
Author: MKW Publishing
There Was Always Going To Be Two
It was always going to be this way it seems, where society splits into two factions (at a minimum). The empire and the rebellion, for a dramatic portrayal. I wonder whether that’s why they were so keen to get everyone on board with their ‘health program’, and now seem intent on a follow through ‘digital program’ to get everyone trapped into their version of society. To make us play along with their rather grand delusion of controlling everyone by way of technology. Integrating us with their systems, building them around us.
Through my usual way of listing films, I will show how it was always going to be this way. Us and them.
Star Wars – The Empire and The Rebellion, a constant battle between light and dark, and a good motivator for some. If you are one of those people, you know what I mean.
Bladerunner – against a corporation, as is the theme for many a film (Resident Evil, Total Recall, Eagle Eye, Die Hard etc), but what struck me about the film, is that although it was about a future with synthetic humans, everything else seemed to be run down. As if they deliberately held down the rest of society to be the most powerful. Obvious, but it still impressed upon me.
Alita – a recent film, but one which is very clear about you down there, and them up there. People fighting each other and desperate to have a chance to be like them. It’s an odd movie, and quite sad really.
Elysium – Similar theme to the above, a better world hovering just above you, you can see it, but you can’t go there. They have everything you don’t, and again people’s lives are based around trying to attain what they are excluded from, for no reason other than manufactured reasons by way of design. Another sad film.
The Matrix – very us and them, from early on. Against the machines generally, but by way of a percieved threat while in the mainframe. Hunted by the agents, and inevitability, of course.
Demolition Man – a great example (albeit a slightly cheesy one) of people taking over, and deciding what is right, and best, and safe for everyone. Forcing people who do not fit into the plan to live in sewers. I saw that as a very clear sign of just how extreme it could get, under the guise of ‘for everyone’s good’.
Oblivion – slightly different because the movie switches halfway through, it is us and them, but not who you think. And they have a cunning use of exclusion areas due to ‘radiation zones’ leading to the lie being continued.
Logans Run – this film is a bit further along in the split of society, with almost no-one left on the outside, but one man. Peter Ustinov playing a wonderful role, but showing how quickly it can change and disappear. The people who have been living in a domed city have no idea about outside and what the world once was, instead being kept in a controlled environment with a maximum age allowed of 30 years old. The Island (2005) has similar undertones to it, but is a much darker view of what people may be kept and bred separately for.
There are plenty of unhinged people with disturbing ideas out there, and most of them are of no concern to anyone and go about their day keeping their unsettling thoughts and ideas to themselves. But it is when someone of that ilk decides to step out of their head and enact those thoughts, then we have a problem. As well we should. Things don’t just happen instantly or by accident it seems, they are engineered and are occurring over a period of time, with very clear markers of concern that should be recognised and acknowledged. We may not know what to do about what is coming, but we don’t need to deny it’s there, or agree to be part of it. Some may think that if they go along with it now, it will be easier for them later, having already been well groomed for a points-based scoring system. Incentives and rewards are how it starts, then the requests become more unreasonable and will always descend into demands and punishment if you don’t. Same shit, different day.
(c) K Wicks
Comma butterfly
A first for me this year, getting a photo of a comma butterfly. Maybe I have seen them before, but thought they were something else with slightly damaged wings. Now I now they are a whole different type 🙂
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A little bit of privacy
I gave it thought after explaining what privacy meant in childhood for me. It was limited and coveted, and I snatched it up where I could.
If you grew up with siblings, you might remember mornings being noisy, and hectic. Sleepy and having to get ready for school. The journey to which being noisy and busy, either walking or on the bus. Then you get to school, surrounded by lots of people, maybe you get a few minutes to yourself in the toilet or at break, but not often. There was stuff to talk about, and things to do before you had to go back to the confinement of the classroom.
After a long day of constant people and learning, back home again to then do the domestic routine. Getting to be able to go out after school used to be time to unwind. Even though usually spent with friends, it didn’t seem as demanding. Just relaxing and checking things out or being silly. Weekends and school holidays used to be the best for knowing you didn’t have that stupid daily bind. And if you were able to be out of the house, it was great. No-one knew where you were, what you were doing. It was nice, as is the nostalgic thought of it, because I enjoyed those moments then as I do now. My mother wanted to know what I was always up to, and I had an older sibling who was not my ally. And as you learn along the way, some ‘friends’ can’t be trusted either. So, trying to find a bit of peace in yourself in your own time can be a full-time job sometimes. I guess that’s why it seems that privacy and freedom go hand in hand.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t ever go away just because you get older. It turns into employment instead of education, where you still have a schedule and it needs to be maintained. It can be the same for people who chose to stay at home and bring up the kids rather than employment (or insanely juggle both). I realise the need for just five minutes on your own sometimes is necessary for everyone. Especially if you spend a lot of time around people, not everyone understands how draining it can be. Even if it’s your nearest and dearest. (The funny videos on the internet showing this by way of a closed bathroom door and a horde of animals and kids outside waiting). And now there is a new world of busy without even leaving your house or being in the company of anyone, you have The Internet. Where you can feel surrounded and drained without physically being around people at all, it’s an odd thing really. That we allow the perception of it being real, and that they are people we are engaging with, therefore use real emotions and time to deal with it. Maybe that’s why we have so many bots taking up people’s time and stirring the pot perhaps – if that is the case. To take that energy that people freely give and leave them drained and unsatisfied. Not just the fake profiles, real people can do it too, strange though that so many allow it from people who aren’t anywhere near them, or anything to do with them, or who aren’t even people.
Maybe it’s been with us now for so long, the internet, that people don’t understand what privacy and time to yourself is anymore, that it has lost its meaning. Or for some, perhaps they were never comfortable with just their own company, so the idea that they can be ‘with people’ all the time is better for them, which is why they do not complain about the digital society taking over every aspect of life. They welcome it because it gives them a feeling of security, where the previous society caused them anxiety and uncertainty. The digital one appears to offer a friendly network of life and opportunity, people and virtual experiences. Where they will monitor you to tailor everything to you, making it seem as if you are important. And you are, in coding and for numbers only. They need a certain number of ‘players’ to make it work, and see it through to conclusion, and so far, unfortunately, there seems to be lots of willing bodies happy to oblige them. But what of the ones who do not wish to play the game, to insert ourselves into this buckled mainframe and help to create their fantasy illusion of omnipotent overseer. Like skynet, but with a face. I guess we have to see what happens next and how they plan to target the remaining freedoms we have, and those who choose to stand up for them…
(c) K Wicks
Apple and Blackberry Cake
After foraging some blackberries, I decided to give apple and blackberry cake a go.
186g blackberries
2 x small gala apples
2 eggs beaten
1/2 tps cinnamon
4 oz butter
6 oz demerera sugar
8 oz self raising flour
orange zest
1tps baking powder
Oven at 160°c (fan assisted or 180 if not), line loaf tin with baking paper, or butter so the cake doesn’t stick.
Beat the eggs and greate the two apples including the skin down to the core into the egg, put in cinnamon and orange zest.
Cream together the butter and sugar.
Add the two together until you have a big bowl of runny, lumpy goo. Now add the flour and baking powder until you have a decent cake batter, then stir through most of the blackberries, careful not to break them up too much. Save a few for putting on top before it goes in the oven, and I sprinkled a small bit of demerera over the top as well.
Bake for around 50 mins to over an hour. I had to check a few times because it browned well early on. The knife test did it though, and it was perfect at about 1 hour and 5 minutes I think.
It was rather nice.
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Sawfly Larvae
They look like caterpillars but aren’t. I haven’t had any before in the garden so quite excited to see different things this year as the garden develops. I found them while still small and only a tiny section of redcurrant leaf missing, but it soon spiralled and they have stripped a small section. It doesn’t really show and hasn’t harmed the plant, so just let them be.
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The sum of all recent… (poetry)
The sum of all recent
And worldly fears
Destroying the future
Now taking our years
Time we should realise
That can’t be redone
A darkness that’s spreading
We just can’t outrun
But if you could see
And now understand
That what did occur
Was meticulously planned
And put into place
From the longest age
Laying foundations
And setting the stage
For a sinister plan
No longer in mind
An audacious plot
The heist of mankind
There’s still but a chance
Although maybe slim
That we don’t have to be
At their beck and their whim
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We do not have to be slaves to the system
(c) K Wicks
Farmer vs Pharma
The attack on farmers continues, and how our food is produced, transported, sold and consumed. All neatly tied up by rules, regulations, quotas and targets. Under the guise of ‘for the planets health’ because, you know, they’ve already used it towards people and too many lapped it up. Imagine handing someone a strait-jacket and they put it on themselves and let you tie it up. That’s what’s happening here.
It’s a slow strangulation of resources and current sustainability. Lots of people have noticed, and aren’t having it, and rightly so. Covered previously in It seems an attack, Because from what they seem to be trying to roll out is worse, won’t work and will ruin the systems and land already in place. Which is the point. Farmland being appropriated for other use, orders for rewilding and paid culls on the horizon. Mysterious fires of wheat fields, food processing plants and no doubt they will declare more animal-based infections and cull loads more. It takes out a huge part of the food chain we rely on, while they simultaneously stop processes in other areas. They will have their own islands, areas and compounds where everything is just fine. But for everyone else, they want to upset the applecart.
And while they slowly try to remove the word, livelihood and previous terms associated with farmer, it gets replaced with a new ‘feeder’. Big pharma, wanting to pump you full of chemical food, needing medications to survive and for them to be the new cradle to grave overseer. So far, they have just been the nanny for a few decades (like the one in The Hand that Rocks the Cradle), quietly assisting and watching, waiting. Now making their move, when ‘suddenly’ there is a huge need for pharmaceutical intervention with lots of adverse reactions to the recent trials on the mostly unsuspecting populations in various countries.
But it seems a small chance of hope is spreading, farmers are following the initial lead of the truckers and trying to fight back by way of protest. All the industries as we know them will be obsolete if they have their way. Just robots doing everything with minimal people contact and interaction. Or at least that’s the picture they paint of what they are shooting for. There appears little or no room for normal everyday people just getting on with their lives in their vision, so it should be a concern for everyone where this is all going. Because it doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere good…
(c) K Wicks
Sunset – 03.08.22 #2
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Hummingbird hawkmoth in the garden
A real treat to see one of these in my garden, a few times in one day, and actually saw one again this morning. The buddleia is doing a very good job this year, catering for plenty of bees, butterflies, moth, hoverflies, beetles and various other small insects. Got a few good pics and fottage of it flying around, but they aren’t easy!
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