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Phobic or Instinct?

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The word phobia has seen a rise to power in recent years and, like many others, is being weaponised for purpose. Words and Meaning being extremely important to achieve their purpose. So, when a new word gets latched onto and inserted into the mainstream, to become the new ‘buzzword’ we should look at what that purpose might be.

I have already written about fear and the word phobia in Being Afraid, but that doesn’t really discuss the purpose of having people afraid of the implied meaning of the word, rather than what they should be afraid of. But the other word and its meaning that should be important here, is instinct. Because really that to me is what triggers the associated feeling, to then be labelled phobic. I’ll use a classic one first that is where I think I first heard it, fatphobic. This came up when it was decided that being overweight wasn’t going to be an issue anymore, after years of being told to diet, slimming programs and world popped up, there was therapy, drugs, surgery and more to help with that as a problem. But somewhere along the line, they decided that it was no longer a problem, it was healthy, big is beautiful etc. Instinctually though, we know deep down that it isn’t right for a fit functioning body or system, to have extra pressure put upon bones, blood, heart and all the other systems that have to compensate. I thought it was obvious, but clearly hadn’t factored in mental barriers and weaknesses to the overall ‘problem’, as well as those to might be making money from that misery. To convince your patient they aren’t miserable at all, and keep them in a state of ‘happiness’ which means altering their mind set towards it.

But instinct can lead to fear, and in most cases I suspect, it is because it is meant to, however, the mind can then run with it, take it too far, misunderstand the purpose of it, or not know how to deal with it. And now you have words to be afraid of as well as real physical indicators, so a new set of mental gymnastics is required to be able to navigate the very real feeling that is created. Moving on from a fear of being overweight, i’ll go to the next obvious one dominating our senses, Transphobia, and try to unpick what that has become in a quest to create a new mental landscape for identity issues, sexual fetish and deviance, voyeurism and other such types of personality. Taking the stage, and the shadows away from the ones who really did just want to be something else to feel like themselves, to blend in and just go about your life and your business, privately. Now it seems about perversion and intrusion, mentally as well as physically, because the adjusted mindset required, is supposed to be from the many, not the few. I don’t think the masses are ever going to be on board with wanting fully intact men, who appear to be showing signs of sexual perversion, to be in situations where girls and women are in a state of vulnerability. And the ones who shout the loudest about wanting access, raise the most suspicions, I have to say. You wouldn’t allow a teenage boy to insist on being in the bathroom with his sister, would you? Or any family member insisting on it with anyone else after a certain age of necessity, because it would seem weird. So, to me, it seems even weirder that with even the possible hint of perversion as the motive, that we aren’t allowed to question that motive. For any vulnerable situation, and for anyone showing signs of malintent, be it man or woman.

And that’s where instinct is there to serve as a tool, to give us a trigger for some guidance, to raise some questions that should be a simple straightforward procedure. But instead, it turns into a spectacle, a public debate about whether you should be allowed to question, rather than about the very real and natural fears many might feel. Because for the longest time, with reason, it has been drummed into women about safety, and personal responsibility for that safety. Don’t hitchhike, don’t be alone with strange men you don’t know, don’t talk to strangers, avoid being out at night, tell people who you are meeting and where, check in to make sure you are safe and so on. I don’t know many men who experienced that growing up, or as an adult. They just simply didn’t have the same conditioning, although now on reflection, maybe they should have, because boys have been a huge target for abuse and men are a target, just not as publicised perhaps as women.

It’s hard enough to work out what your internal sensors are trying to reveal, because you might not have the experience or understanding to comprehend what that feeling is. But if you are then being told by external forces that your feeling are wrong, you don’t know how you feel, and then you have a repeated mantra thrown at you to reinforce someone else’s belief, then it can damage your confidence, or ability to process instincts and what they are for perhaps. The other phobia that we can’t escape in the UK, is Islamophobia. Touted at every opportunity to try and shut down debate of a growing issue, causing much concern. And it’s a multi pronged issue, because it isn’t just that people are worried about a religion on it’s own and people just worshipping, it’s the other areas of society being manipulated under that banner. The courts, the different laws to the country’s establishment, the funding, the planning permissions, the benefits, the tax breaks, the changing of local demographic, the intimidation tactics etc. All facilitated and encouraged by the government no less, so people taking advantage and seeing the opportunity being handed on a plate, is only part of the issue. And one that people want to talk about, but of course, they have a handy tool for that, and out comes the phobia cartel, to psychologically whip some into a frenzy, and confuse others with their cunning word games. Trying to make people think their thoughts and instincts are irrational. Dividing understanding of what people are even discussing so that it never gets discussed, cunning, but not clever, and in fact, it’s getting rather boring now…

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Switched Off

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This is a follow on piece of sorts to More Than Pain gets Killed, which looked at the idea of people on high doses of strong medications, may be missing out on the ability to process feelings and emotions. And any medication really can have an effect, so it should be considered, just as alcohol would be. Something that many people use to dull their emotions or avoid experiencing things in what we might call a sober manner. Many have their vices and mother’s little helper as it used to be referred to.

Anxiety is another one that came to mind that seems to be widely assessed as needing medicating these days, at a time in your life when you are clearly having a struggle and feeling apprehensive, or worried, or fearful for something real happening in your life. To then think that certain people go ahead and prescribe them, and then the struggling person takes the mind altering-drugs to try and deal with that, thinking it will solve the problem. Or at least maybe allieviate it. Yet, in my mind, you have split the problem and created two for yourself. Firstly, you aren’t dealing with the situation, you are needing assistance with it, from a faceless compound who will just ‘help’ you and not expect anything from you. So, not experiencing and learning from the feelings, the natural feelings that are often there to signal to you, that something isn’t quite right. Or you aren’t quite ready yet, or you don’t know enough, or you are just nervous. And if you aren’t able to differentiate between those feelings or understand they have different name, or stressors, or how they developed, they why would dampening your emotions and feelings help with that? Secondly, when faced with a similar problem or entirely new one in the future, which triggers those same feelings or slightly new ones, what happens then? Does your brain have any reference point for when it coped before? Does it know that certain feelings are entirely appropriate in certain situations and shouldn’t, in fact, be switched off or inhibited? And maybe the brain remembers what it did before and goes to the doctor for the same method of ‘coping’ as before.

It’s not just medication, though, that can help to distract or distort a reality that is sometimes quite needed to give you the tools to understand yourself and the real world. But having a multitude of various forms of escapism isn’t turning out to be healthy at all, people choosing preset characters, constructed worlds, sanitised interactions in place of real stimulation and experience. Because for some, they don’t seem to be able to assimilate real things and real people happening in real time, with the expectation of things being able to be paused, reset, done again or wanting to fully control the interaction. With a complete emotional collapse often following if something doesn’t go how they expected it to or wanted it to.

Where expectation meets reality, and many a disappointment can be had, depending on how you set yourself up in the first place. But it seems many can’t deal with the feelings that go along with disappointment, which is why it is perhaps so incredibly important to teach children how to understand feelings and emotions. To give them the language and understanding skills for them to able to process them. And hopefully, that can at least set people in good stead to go forward in life and perhaps be a little more prepared for what may come. Life is weird enough as it is, but in these strange and crazy times, being able to deal with things and keep your head really does seem quite important…

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What Separates Us?

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Colour has been used to separate us in society and be weaponised as a point of divide, in fact, that seems a rather arbitrary difference to focus on, but as it’s one we can instantly access, it does feature in our conditioning. Ideals, traditions, culture, language, education, knowledge, and personality all vary from people to people. Making the world a far more interesting place than it would be if we were all the same, like those little boxes we once sung about.

But the growing issue of what is known as multiculturism is cause for concern from many quarters. The mass importation of unknown people’s being strategically placed for maximum disruption has raised more than just eyebrows. And the problem gets distorted, and becomes the old xenophobic argument of ‘go home’ and ‘you’re not British’ etc. Some of us are only three generations away from immigrants, so I’m not sure how ‘British’ many people really are, or what scale they are using to determine what qualifies anyone in that. And once you have enough people from a differing viewpoint, doesn’t that then change the current viewpoint of the majority to then be the prevailing attitude? How long did it take us to become what we are today referring to as ‘our way of life’?

I was brought up to be accepting of other cultures and people, and judge them on their character, actions and heart, not by the colour of their skin. But as you get old you start to realise that isn’t actually how it works in the real world. I attended mostly white schools growing up, but my mother spent some childhood years in Africa, and married someone of Pakistani descent in the UK when I was a child, so we didn’t have an average household set up. My first proper lesson in racism came thereafter, because he was in the armed forces and was refused promotion because of his colour. My teachers couldn’t seem to pronounce my surname correctly because it was foreign, even after they were told, and it wasn’t a hard one either. But it was noticeable to me, that we were treated differently just by extension, so I started to understand there was a problem. Witnessed in a different way when I worked in south London in a factory for a few weeks a long time ago. A very odd feeling going on in there with half of the staff being white and English, and the other half being Indian, and none of them mixed. At all. Apart from the weird racist banter now and again – but while on the line, the Indian women would speak Punjabi, and at lunch time they would sit together and talk. And because I was white, it was expected that I would sit with the same colour as me and go along with it all. I did not last there for very long, as it was just too weird, but again, showed me just how separated people wanted to be sometimes. On both sides.

The problem of integration isn’t a new one, and is not colour specific at all, and you really can’t force it. When I moved to Spain for a couple of years, I hadn’t quite comprehended how much the ‘English’ group together, and stick to what they know. And if you don’t speak the language (which I don’t), then you end up being a bit of a fish out of water, even though the locals are as helpful as they possibly can be, it must be quite an imposition to have to deal with us. Just as we have to deal with others. But tourism was the golden ticket to make people put up with it and encourage it, having people from elsewhere constantly passing through, turning up and being around, and you would make money from that imposition. But this new drive of people movement is breaking down so many things and destabilising what was already in place and working. Employment, housing, education, health, tourism and travel, all things that have been gradually eroded and replaced by ideas and ideals of no-one having anything, everyone being everywhere and no-one being allowed to do anything. Everyone is being used against each other, weaknesses and vulnerabilities exploited and opportunism being exposed and utilised to maximum effect.

No wonder people are getting fed up and frustrated (and that’s putting it mildly), because no-one can plan, get on or move on – instead being held in a strange state of limbo, holding your breath and waiting. For the next law, the next rule and regulation, the next stupid idea to bankrupt your present and future, and to completely corrupt what is. And all for… what exactly?

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Switching It Up

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They say that certain frequencies are being used against us, that there is a battle commencing which we cannot see or hear, but we can feel it. And if you do read the info, propaganda, or conspiracy theories, then to a point you can see and hear it, or at least the idea. So, as the idea goes, towers have been installed to upgrade the system, where we have steadily gone up in grade and now we reach level 5. For phones and communication, for faster internet and systems, or so it is said.

Now there is an alternate theory, that they have in fact been recalibrated by the ‘good guys’ to be a more harmonic frequency and more in line with what suits our natural rhythm. Explaining somewhat why it might be that we seem more aggressive and confused as a species over the last century, because we are having our signals interfered with to make us more inclined towards that behaviour. As there is an agitation and trigger system working so subtly, you don’t even notice, well, almost. That all seems quite standard on the face of it, you work out that something can control or influence people which they can’t detect, so it gets authorised for use.

And after such a long time, could it be that certain brains actually do rewire themselves to fit the new frequency, rather than fight it, or that rewiring takes more than just time and environment. It required medications and conditioning, systematic environments clad with amplifiers of those frequencies, but once it’s switched over, it then requires it to keep functioning and maintain what it now knows as ‘stable’? So, you would have the population ‘wired’ to operate at different frequencies, maybe that’s a reason some people seem so alien in their thought processes or reasoning. Could just be they are part of the automated process already, like ants and bees who have no choice in their function, they just do what they are meant to, for the good of The Hive.

And perhaps that’s really why creativity was off the charts in the previous time, because our minds were tuned to what we might call the ‘correct harmonics’, and we were more open to the world of ideas and less inclined towards the world of war. It could be more than that, as speculated in my article At The Flick of A Switch, where things have now infiltrated the human body and will act as an extra conductor or amplifier for other types of signals. An interesting idea was put forward about bones having a certain resonating frequency, and that all the catacombs have churches and cathedrals built over then, often with a huge organ installed. Drawing people in and creating an energy perhaps, as discussed in Church of Death, but now factoring in more bodies and bones that even I could have imagined. It is all mere theory at this point, why it’s all really needed and how to ‘catch’ everyone in some way, working out how it all ties in and creates that world wide web they wanted, and into the net we go…

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