Author: MKW Publishing

Rocking The Boat

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Another of those classic sayings, in its varying forms. But the main one being ‘don’t rock the boat, especially if you are in it’, which most are probably familiar with. And if you have ever been one of those people who have indeed rocked the boat, what happens thereafter may have given you a different view of the saying. Because once you have rocked that boat, you begin to see who benefits from that boat staying steady and stable, and being told not to rock it insinuating that you are a problem that will disrupt the smooth sailing of life and that steady heading.

But we aren’t all going the same way or with the same purpose, and you may end up finding yourself in the same vessel as someone else anyway, and when it isn’t working, it seems wholly appropriate to rock the boat, or just jump out of it altogether. They have another little saying too to help hold people back and imagine how bad it will be ‘out of the frying pan, and into the fire’. At first they seem like useful sayings, to give you wisdom and understanding of situations, but as with much they then can get used as a tool by some to give hesitancy to people or to interrupt their thoughts and ideas, with ‘words of advice’.

And that’s where you realise that life is like a boat for this analogy, for each of us, and sometimes you step into or you get pulled into someone else’s boat because they need the ballast, or company, or have a use for you that you aren’t aware of yet, and they need you to stay in their boat. So, will do what it takes to make sure you stay in there, telling you there are sharks, no land, only that boat, no other routes etc. All sorts of sayings, ideas, worries and anxieties to make you dread the thought of ever leaving that boat and being in your own.

There are also the other occasions where it is in fact necessary to rock it, throw people out of yours and perhaps capsize it altogether depending on what circumstance may befall you. Where some people will take whatever action and consequence is necessary to adjust their position on the ‘boat’. And what if it starts sinking all around you, like I have mentioned in Poseidon Adventure, but this would be further along, where there is no longer a boat, but what remains are the shocked inhabitants who can’t believe it’s not there anymore. And even when it may appear you are sailing on calm waters, or drifting along in life just being you, completely unaware that something may be just about to take that boat from under you…

The Siren, Daniel Jiménez Villalba

(c) K Wicks

Ownership

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A system of legal ownership over something or someone. Funny really to think that in order to ‘rightfully’ take things from people, you first have to tie them into the same definition and system of ownership as required.

Land agreements for example, they seem to be about fair apportionment, or dividing up something so people can ‘own’ it. Swiftly followed by ‘legal’ means to take it from you. All sorts of things this applies to where there is a certificate, or deed, or treaty. By signing into their ownership scheme, you then fall foul of their ‘ownership’ enterprise. Where It becomes about a Monopoly, rather than fair and free trade, but people wouldn’t have fallen for it so easily if the words fair and free meant just that. But under that guise, it became unfair and heavily restricted, regulated and a ruthless conglomerate gradually swallowed and crushed any competition or complaint. My article The Digital Doomsday Database looks at that a bit, and why it was they started compiling data on who, when, what and how much for more than just tax purposes.

And the thing is with ownership, if someone doesn’t think they own anything, you might think it’s easy to just come and take it away from them, and in a way that is correct. But, with no sense of ownership, how exactly is it that you make them then recognise it is yours once you decide that? You see, there needs to be a two way understanding for ownership to work, otherwise it doesn’t. This is where I find the new phrase being touted for the future of consumerism and sustainability, which we all must be familiar with by now. You will own nothing and you will be happy. And in principle, I can see how that might work, and maybe did once upon a time. Because owning nothing and being happy only really works if everyone owns nothing, and doesn’t want to own anything. Being possessive over things and driven by desire for more seems a trait some in society say they want to get rid of, while doing it on a grand scale. So make of that what you will.

But a personal sense of ownership is important I feel, not for material things and money, but for yourself. As it may well be that while you are distracted by things, and how much you have, someone is installing ownership over you and your personhood. It’s not just land, money and food that is up for grabs in the corporate play unfolding, people are a massive commodity and always have been. What they can do, what they can offer and how much a person and family actually generates for the system throughout their lives is probably more than we would like to think. Give thought to how much they interfere from birth to death, and how much money is made from both of those things and each step in between. And they make you think you actually cost money for them to ‘look after you’, which they then take from your slave wage contract you were taught to believe was a choice. Groomed from birth to be part of that system of worker for your whole adult life. Shunned and treated as an outcast if you chose to not take part, and things then put in place to make it harder and harder for people to choose an alternative. Telling you it’s your choice but only giving you one option kind of thing, and hounding you if you then pick the one that doesn’t give them a very intimate control over your life. Threatening legal action, and financial penalties upon you as a professional tantrum, making it appear to everyone that it is ‘for your own good’, and sadly many people have fallen for that over the centuries.

But learning to own yourself before material things is important, and understand who may want ownership over you. There are many institutions in place to tie you in by way of contract and legal agreement, to keep you beholden to the system and constantly having to come back. They own you. You’ve heard that phrase before haven’t you? But do people give thought to who is the owner, and who is the owned? It may that they are trying to break down someone’s personal sense of ownership over themselves and their possessions, because now the need has switched from Consumerism as we knew it, and moved into the ugly phase of us truly being the product as mentioned in The Mark of The Beast. All they want you to ‘own’ is debt, so they can say yes, no, jump higher and so forth. But their weakness appears to be that sense of ownership, because without it, no-one would care if you were trying to show off with more. So they need you to want to own money and things, so they can own you…

(c) K Wicks

Moths & Caterpillars

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It’s an exciting time in the garden. Moat of the butterflies gave moved on, but caterpillars are here. Mostly cabbage whites, large and small at first.

But in the last few days have spotted 3 grey dagger moth caterpillars on the little cherry tree.

And glanced over the little raspberry bush and spotted a rusty tussock!

Was also treated to a square spot rustic moth that appeared under the back door when opened. Looks like Autumn will be a busy one for moths.

(c) K Wicks

While We Wait

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And while you wait and hope for better, worse comes marching right up into your face.

People shouldn’t be waiting for help, or rescue in the bigger scheme of things, or even on a small level really, an expectation that can lead to disappointment, and death in some cases.

A move to make students homeless a week before term starts is a further display of how little the establishment think of people. Especially ones who are apparently studying for the future, and are looking to go about the normal routine of learning and living somewhere. If they hadn’t noticed, every age group is being targeted in various ways. So, what exactly are they going to university for? To study for that future they are deconstructing around you? Or perhaps it’s because you have to try and carry on, to get on and still work towards a future, because it will get here whether you want it to or not. But taking part in strange set up is not going to make it easier, they like to make you think its fine, but isn’t. And if the next predicted lockdowns are coming, they might be glad to not be stuck in student accommodation. But really it just looks like a super disruptor move, to show favouritism again at your expense. Literally and metaphorically.

People have been conditioned to wait; this I understand. To expect the authorities to sort themselves out, to sort out society and make everything right, to be there in an emergency and to fix what is broken. But why is it really? Holding Us Back looked at that idea, of that we very strangely have a childish mechanism in us when it comes to authority, especially in the Westernised countries, and certain others too. Where they want you to think you are helpless, or useless, or of limited capacity, so they can convince you that you need parenting. ‘Give us your money and we’ll do it for you, don’t worry, you can trust us’. But like a narcissistic, controlling and obsessive parent, they don’t want you to notice and sure as shit don’t want you ever gaining independence from that. Makes me wonder if that was really what the fight for independence was all about in the states all those years ago. That it wasn’t a fight to be free of England, it was a fight to be free of the insidious system of control. And we are told they won, which means something else happened, and maybe they did initially – and it was the land of the free as we were once told. But that wasn’t ever going to be allowed to remain, and perhaps that is what the civil war was about, to get it back in order and make sure it becomes the leading breeding ground for the military power moves to follow in the upcoming centuries. Either way, it’s not going well over there now either.

Yet people are still sort of waiting for the government to do something to help, when they are the ones who have caused it all. They are the ones who have pulled the rug out from everyone’s feet, and are laughing at us all on the floor looking up and going what the hell. But instead of getting up and punching them in the face, metaphorically, we stay on the ground waiting for them to help us up and put down a new rug, where we can comfortably stand and go back to living and getting on. Well, I’m pretty sure we can safely say at this point, there is no rug. There is no helping hand to get you up, in fact, there is going to be periodic kicks to make sure you don’t get up, which will then change into permanent damage and then you can’t get up. But don’t worry, the government will be there to let you have food and water when they decide, unless they can’t be bothered or forget about you, of course. And that’s why it appears important for them to be able to cut off your lifelines and livelihood, and ability thereafter to access ‘society’. To threaten and exclude you into compliance, in a more extreme and aggressive way than we have previously seen, but using individual and collective fear triggers as a weapon. Exploiting people’s weakness and vulnerabilities, having spent decades working everyone out and placing things for later use, reference or to their advantage planned long in advance. Hoping to stitch up the bag around you before you notice the drawstrings getting tighter.

Everyone is waiting though, not all for the government, some are waiting for other people. Wondering when they will notice that the ones they run to for help, are the ones kicking them in the face. The ones they are expecting to come good and stop them drowning are the very same ones who are holding them underwater. A rearrangement of expectation is needed perhaps, to understand how society is actually constructed and what it requires of you to be part of it, because it isn’t free and a given right as everyone thinks. It takes something of you and from you in order to ‘provide and protect’, and what it requires just seemed to go up a notch or two…

(c) K Wicks