We seem to have rather a large number of them now, but not children as the original term denotes, although of them there are a few no doubt. But the number of adults who are behaving like spoilt brats is astounding, and I use the term adult there loosely, because it is a very immature and juvenile group that have moved themselves into position. With An Attitude of Entitlement taking the helm in many a quarter.

Politicians and their Endless Pot of Resources that they keep topping up, making sure your money is No Longer Yours and becomes theirs, and that they always have their hands In Your Pocket, so that they can continue in their quest of Holding Us Back.

People on benefits, and just a general attitude of me, me, me, more, more, more. Which will get worse no doubt as they try to raid anyone they can, and if you keep taking it usually leads to one of two things. Either what you are taking runs out, or where you are taking it from withdraws access. And we now see that’s probably why it was so important to them to make sure people were tied in through intermediaries, so that you are aren’t entirely able to just cut them out of the loop. Clearly in previous more cash-based times, it would have been much easier. Hence why they needed all those middlemen mentioned in Who’s That Trip Trapping On My Bridge, a multi-level system that can’t just be stopped. Imagine a shop, just one premises, just one product and it does ok. But then something happens and it turns out the shop has gone rogue, either by way of shoddy service, goods or a problem, so it needs to be shut. People avoid it, trade drops and it goes bust by way of ‘natural selection’ in the commercial world. Or at least that’s what should happen, things being allowed to run their course and end up where they were meant to through action and consequence.

However, things aren’t allowed to run their natural course, because while that shop was being deceitful, it opened another branch so it could shift responsibility. And then another so that it could get ahead of the talk and create an image of respectability, rather than actually being respectable. That happens a lot with people, they would rather been seen to be doing something than actually doing it, often spending just as much time and effort on the illusion that they would have if they done it for real. Funny and sad in equal measure.

But it is not just time they are spending now, it’s actually people’s money, which they ‘spend’ their time earning, and the government ‘spend’ time and money trying to convince you they are necessary and need more of it. That elaborate set-up is starting to fray at the edges somewhat now it seems, with so many greedy fingers in the pot and money being chucked at everything except what it was appropriated for, it’s being emptied faster than it can be refilled. And that can be said of people’s tolerance and patience as well, that there is only so much people can take, and overlook and excuse before you run out of both. And it really does seem as though that’s what they are pushing for, that the people ‘lose their rag and kick off’ or whatever they want to happen, moving all the pieces into position for the next phase…

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After reading a rather interesting article online about theories of population numbers and cloning, I noticed a number of my previous articles and ideas stray into this territory. Providing some extra pieces of information to add to the overall questions I have, rather than offer any answers.

Cloning – Mentioning twins and identical strangers, made me think of my articles Films, Real Life Twisted or just Fantasy? and Seeing Double, where perhaps there are switches made or doppelgangers utilised to pull off some deception. We know people hire body doubles and lookalikes for films and appearances in the world of entertainment – it’s just maybe the stage and screen for that is a bit bigger than people realised. With all of those Characters of Illusion deliberately placed and made to look like someone else, so you aren’t really sure what you can trust anymore, even when you see it with your own eyes as the illusion is no longer just behind a screen. We now know it can walk and walk and be seen with your own eyes, and if you trust those all of the time, then it’s an easy trick to pull off.

Mysterious population boom / adoption boom (1980’s-2000’s) – there are some startling numbers in the strange talk of Chinese towns and the cities that were built and never inhabited – tying in perhaps to my thoughts of Ghost Cities. And maybe they weren’t just there as a movie set or a forethought after all. Maybe they have already been used and are waiting for the next group or time. The add adoption stats from Kazakhstan around the same time also looking a bit odd, making me think of A Train of Thought, with their own style of ‘orphan trains’ happening, but a century after the first lot, almost as if the previous batch has reached its expiry or is now Past Its Best and ‘new stock’ was required.

But if the stats of adoptions and various ‘movements’ of children are true, there really is something strange going on, with a jump in numbers that seems to have no logical explanation. And now we have birth rates falling dramatically in various countries and certain demographics, swinging wildly from massive growth, to massive drop. For that there are indeed some ideas and speculations. With tweaks in society to engineer reasons or excuses why so many children might be parentless and require mass programs to address that. I suspect all manner of ‘people relocations and replacements’ have already happened we aren’t aware of in particular areas of the world, with it then being used for purpose and rewritten as necessary.

It was pointed out there seems to be a stark drop in birth and maternity hospitals in various countries, and with people asking questions like “Are real people disappearing?”, it makes me think there something to notice, although, we are still using stats and figures provided by the entity that lies a lot, the state. So, it will always have to be taken with a pinch of salt, or with variables added in to account for the errors, omissions, changes in data etc, some of those ideas and thoughts of populations already discussed in Downsizing and A Numbers Game. With a look at where everyone ended up in the The Missing Dead, also hinting at there being something afoot with the official records, and what we see versus what we think we know and are told, doesn’t quite add up. Which does happen a lot these days, and maybe always did but we just weren’t paying attention, but now we are, Perhaps we should try and work out what it is we are actually seeing…

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The thought started with Robin Hood. Wondering if it has any basis in pieces of reality, thinking through the storyline put forward in the film Prince of Thieves. Of the crusades, the absent king, hiding in the woods, and the fight to save England, apparently. But it wasn’t to free England, was it? No, it was to fight to save it for sovereignty and free it from the grip of greedy usurpers they say. Taxing the very soul out of the people and creating unneccessary poverty. That tale was set in the late 12th century, but it could be today, couldn’t it? And because so many things have been twisted to fit the narrative, or simply changed to rewrite reality I can’t help rethinking old stories, sayings and things that once seemed just as they were.

Robin Hood – there have been a few people throughout the centuries that have apparently fought and won certain battles for this country, for justice and for freedom they say. Covered in my article When Someone Else Saves the Day, sharing my speculation about these all being fabricated and used for purpose as a beacon perhaps, to pretend the people won through sheer courage and luck. Or maybe they did, and the myths and legends just sprung up thereafter to make sure people wouldn’t forget it can be done, who can say for sure.

Because it is such a good story, I wondered if maybe it helps to conceal its real meaning, purpose or foundation. Making me think of a forest related saying ‘when you can’t see the wood for the trees’. That we are so used to it, and like to believe it might be real, that we miss the real lesson.

Fairy Tales – many of these are set in forest locations, which make for a good creepy setting once daylight fades away, or such thick coverage provides a gloomy atmosphere. Where I then think of another saying we have about being ‘out of the woods’ when it comes to being in peril or at risk. That in many instances, it is the woods themselves that becomes the oppressive environment, rather than an being an escape from one. A few of the films I mention in my articles Urban Myths and Gateway Trees give examples of how the woods can be used for effect when telling a tale. Again, maybe that’s why stories often have dark and creepy forests; to try and give you a preset psychological idea that being in the woods can be a bad thing. That nursery rhyme of ‘If you go down to the woods today’ providing a bigger and perhaps more terrifying surprise than you would like, if you believe such things.

In real life however, it seems that forested areas are on the list to be restricted and removed for the general masses. They wouldn’t want you to have access to something that provides shelter, is a resource for building and heat, can provide food, creates an ecosystem and can offer you safety off the ground. Trees really are wonderful, and grouped together provide an awesome network which nature manages itself, and continues to provide all of the above as long as it can. We would do well to look after them…

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