Author: MKW Publishing

The Machine of Time

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Although I have written two pieces already called – Time, and The Machine, this one is in reference to a couple of films and of the general concept of time. How we are bound by it and beholden to it, marching forward and we are powerless to stop it.

Chronesthesia – the name for mental Time travel, which if you have seen the Butterfly Effect film, think of it like that. But personally, I had already thought of it in relation to thoughts, when considering nostalgia and future worries as thought processes we have. Which intrinsically require us to mentality ‘time travel’ to do either.

Back To The Future – (1984) – another classic, and shows the folly of going backwards. But also the paradox that gets created by meddling with time as they call it.

The Time Machine (1960) – a great film, and story from H.G. Wells. But unlike the above film, showed how you couldn’t actually go back any further than your current time. As he was away in the future for a week, and when he returned, a week had passed.

Harry Potter 3 – A timepiece for travel was used, but allowing for an overlay of going backwards before it ‘wore off’. But as you are already there, two now exist. Almost more as interdimensional time beings who evaporate when the time is up. Slightly different way of portraying it, I guess.

Dr Who episode (Weeping Angels) – staring at a statue transports a woman back in time on a one-way ticket. Removing the physical self from that time entirely with no way to come back, so disrupting the future and the past simultaneously.

If we didn’t have the sun up and sun down each day, and we didn’t show visible signs of aging, how would we keep tabs on it? And if we didn’t have calendars, clocks and records, how would we know when we are? This is why perhaps it is so easy to see how things can be written and rearranged within history to paint a picture of a placement in time. To think of before, or of how people were and society was, giving reason for how things are now. Or so it would appear. But it is always now, and technically you are always travelling through time, not alongside it, or over it, but through it. Which is why it seems we cannot sidestep it, or avoid it, or change its speed or trajectory, only hold on for dear life as they say, and see if we can make it to what they might say was ‘your time’…

(c) K Wicks

War of The Minds

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It was a pre laid trap, a virus, war, disaster and ‘aliens’. It would be a war for the worlds but in a different way. Played in the mind, just as the experimental radio show of it was, for testing the water, Laying The Foundations for a takeover of society.

Two things about this recent episode in our society reminded me of war of the worlds separately along the way. Firstly the idea a virus could wipe out a species completely, of course we are happy about that when it’s the aliens succumbing to it. Not so much when it’s us. But the idea gets planted, that a virus can eliminate your foe.

Secondly, the ‘blood clots’ that seem to have been a consequence of certain products, which in some images look rather like the creeping tentacles of the sprayed red mist. Growing inside their host instead of covering the landscape as they did in the story.

And if you look back through, there are many triggers and influences to steer a thought process. Individually and collectively. To then enhance an idea and amplify its effect on people and helping to shape society and how it functions. Or doesn’t, as is the current situation.

Where those triggers have perhaps all been activated at once, amongst chaos, threats, and a never-ending stream of doom to wash it all down with. A spoonful of tech helps the mass psychosis go down. And go down it has, seemingly now to be deeply rooted and following its projected path, to whatever end…

(c) K Wicks

Handy Dandelion

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A lovely little flower that is rather useful. I’ve already done a few posts on Dandelions, so this is just bring them all together.

Dandelion – photography

Dandelion Salve – recipe

New Dandelion Salve – more recipes

Homemade Dandelion Moisturiser – another homemade recipe using dandelions for skincare

Edible Garden – a mention for the dandelion as it’s something edible you find in the garden.

Handmade Salve Shop – my range of handmade salves from natural ingredients.

(c) K Wicks

Awake or Out?

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What is it we think we are ‘waking up’ from precisely? A dream? A construct? An orchestrated lie? Or what is it exactly we think we could find ‘A Way Out‘ of?

Dark City – waking up during a procedure, to replace your memories, thoughts and personality. Funnily enough, by way of an injection. But it is the procedure itself that ‘wakes’ the characters up. Seems fitting for where many may find themselves these days.

Alice in Wonderland – waking up from a dream, but the whole time not knowing it was. Thinking the topsy turvy world was now her reality until she woke up.

The Matrix – waking up from your conditioning, and then your physical realm. But how did the first one become aware, and then ‘unplug’ themselves to eek out that strained and exhausting existence thereafter? Did they wake up, or were they awoken?

Wizard of Oz – another where she wakes up in a new world, but as with the others, the lines are blurred. And much is put down as dreams or nightmares for such things, but as with that story, it wasn’t meant to be. It was a ‘real experience’ in the stories. And the sequel goes back to that idea, not delusion, but real.

Logans Run – waking up to the illusion while you are trying to stop others who have. Being exposed to what turned others in the first place, slowly dawning on the main character as it all unravels.

And I wonder if that’s how it works? For the ones who never noticed something was rather off, and have now been pulled into the exposure, it’s only then they actually ‘see’ it. Because being told isn’t enough for them to comprehend or fully assimilate what it actually means. Like in Soylent Green when he looks to have gone mad, shouting that they are eating people, yet no-one really cares by that point, or sees it. Can’t see the wood for the trees as they might say. And maybe some people are cursed, as Snow White was, to sleep for an age and wait for such a time as your fate comes to wake you, whether that be the good or the bad. But whichever one does come to find you, you won’t want to be sleeping when it does…

(c) K Wicks