Thoughts

Cashing Out

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The slow-moving elimination of Cash continues with the dystopian nightmare of a technological prison still being touted at every turn. Digital, Monitoring, data and debt, the ‘new normal’ they would like you to become accustomed to.

Money helps to hold society in place and create the divides and the wants of the people. So much revolves around it, and then time gets tagged in and dictates your life thereafter. Your worth being tied to it, achievements, status, and how people view you. All because of a made-up thing that someone decided represented something else. Giving it a value and then others play along, allowing the financial system to exist and consume everything.

A scary illusion that has been made real by society, money and debt. Technically neither one exists, just as value doesn’t in monetary terms. As we have seen with recent moves to cripple stability with inflation, trying to strip people of what wealth and assets they have accumulated under that system. Trying to put a burden of debt and taxes into every part of life so it can consume your mind and life. Because without money, none of it could happen. There would be no hold over people in that way because they would have no price.

And that is obviously why it’s so important to ‘The Matrix’ as people call it, that the people in it do have a price. So that they can be bought, swayed or bribed into compliance or to play their part as required. With other methods it seems if anyone happens to resist the temptation. And cash currently being used to further the tie in, or rather cashless. Taking away your ability to have and spend your own money, making it impersonal and restricted. Holding Us Back a bit more each generation.

I’m sure they will start to cite safety as a reason for further taking away cash, rather than convenience, as not many are buying that excuse. So, it will probably be claimed that more robberies start happening in venues that accept cash. Making sure of it in some cases, as with previous times, to guarantee less resistance to what has been decided for you as for the ‘greater good’. But as I have said before, it seems to be moving towards someone else’s greater good, but definitely not ours…

(c) K Wicks

Here and There

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We talk of times past, the here and now and of what is to come, as if they are neatly separated by time and space. But must not quite be content with that set up, as we have stories and ideas of time travel, of time warps, and of being able to manipulate those things to transport ourselves to another time. Seems a odd mechanism to have really, to dwell so much on what might have been, or could be, and miss so much of what is. But there are strange tales of things seeming to cross over, being in both ‘times’ at once and causing what I guess would be called a disturbance in the fabric of time. That’s another strange reference, fabric of time, as if it is indeed a curtain one can pull back to reveal all the other events happening simultaneously and you can just step through into another time. Like Mr Ben putting on the costume and stepping through the door to somewhere else. Or a cinema, where multiple movies are all happening at once on different screen, and you just walk into a different room to view different things.

Houses gone or appearing – a strange tale I read of recent times, where a walk in the countryside revealed a house from the past, not there previously, or after. As if the lines of time had intersected for a while, showing what was and what is in the same place, at the same time, whereas they are usually in the same place but not at the same time, or vice versa in the same time, but not in the same place. That is if there is such a thing as time of course. But upon visiting the place again to see what had gone on, there was no house, and things were as they were before.

Wizard of oz – a classic film for a house being picked up and transported somewhere else, not quite a smooth transition though, where not just your own physical self gets transported, but what you were in does too. Something familiar getting you there, but then when you arrive nothing is at all familiar. Because things we recognise go a long way to make us feel a sense of comfort or familiarity, and this will be known then it comes to tricking your senses. We are led to believe for that story though, it was a fever induced dream, a hallucination and the wild imaginings of illness. Because if someone did really have a story to tell of that calibre, who indeed would believe it?

There are a few tales of people disappearing, appearing or finding themselves in surroundings they claim were off a different time as discussed in Appearing from Nowhere. And my article Somewhere In Time also has looked at it as an overall subject within the time travel genre. And really, it’s only because we think we know ‘when’ we are that it matters or becomes relevant because we are told it is important. Sections of time and traditions deemed necessary, constantly reinforced through repetition and rituals. With calendars, dates, anniversaries and ways of making it stay in mind day in and day out, day after day, year after year, generation after generation. April New Year, Don’t Be Fooled looked at how they have changed the calendar, given names to time period so you place it within the timeline you think you know. So, within the world of now and then, and here and there, it’s probably best to try and ground yourself to where and when you think you are, and all else can follow from there…

(c) K Wicks

Lost Souls or Just Trapped?

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Another one on souls, further to my article Light and Dark, where it seems for those categories it has been decided which side of the fence you fall on. But potentially, for some, it has not been decided yet, or there is a realm of banishment from either here or there, where you are then bound to neither realm, only to The Bit In Between. A few references to follow from films, where this idea was shown well.

Poltergeist – maybe not entirely lost, but there did seem to be something trapped on the other side trying to make it through to our world, by way of the walk-in wardrobe mostly. See such articles as Doors and In The Closet where it also gets a mention.

Beetlejuice – the lost soul’s room, showing a room of tormented and trapped souls, lost for eternity residing within the afterlife.

Lord of the Rings – the dead marshes revealing a ghostly domain under the surface of the water, and of course later in the trilogy, the green misty army of the dead, their souls trapped by a curse. Hidden and dwelling in the mountain until the time came for redemption.

And it is said of ghosts and spirits that haunt this realm, they are often trapped in between the land of the living and the dead, that there is somewhere in between where you remain if you have reason to. That may be the case for some of the ‘supernatural’ that apparently lurks alongside us, but there is also a theme within that of demonic entities and others who mimic that type of thing and interfere with the living active realm. So, I am left to wonder if there is indeed somewhere we might refer to as a place, either as a waiting room, a punishment, or where you just can’t let go. And it is just perhaps possible that there is something waiting, like in the Soul Harvester, leaving a trail of temptation breadcrumbs throughout your life until they are ready to collect you if you followed that path. Could be why there is speculation we are already in that trapped space, in if we are in the Vestibule of Hell from Dante’s Divine Comedy. And maybe this is why some people say there is a path already set for you, because it makes it easier to absolve responsibility for making their choice or to try and believe there wasn’t one and there was no other way. And others say you choose your own path and create your own destiny, taking a more observant and active role in their own life, making the best of it and seeing it through, to whatever end…

(c) K Wicks

No Going Back

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Many are now realising how far gone this whole system is, and are trying to get others to understand, that there is no going back. As already discussed in A Certain Type of Person, there are some who can’t see it, or won’t see it as well as those who have already changed, or exposed a part of themselves that doesn’t make them entirely palatable thereafter. Quite a few people I believe have changed their friend set up, employment, family structure and all the other areas of life where people just used to freely mix with each other, or work through disputes and disagreements or social changes in a more cohesive way. But now it’s strained and altered, with new twists and turns finding their way into relationships and lives.

And in the overall misplaced confidence that people will just do as they are told, or believe whatever lie you tell them, it seems maybe it was not noticed how many people do things because it keeps the peace. Or because it’s easier, or because they can’t be bothered to tell you what they really think, so it appears they are on board and because that’s what is wanted, it doesn’t get questioned why they are on board. But you should always question motivation and desire, because if someone is just going along with it, they are not a sure thing, they are a liability to the cause. So, while it may appear that certain numbers of people are doing certain things, I can’t help thinking that really is just how it appears. Ever work with people who prefer to be seen to be doing things, than actually just getting on and doing them? Frustrating when it comes to things working out, but in this societal situation it becomes more relevant, because when you think many are complying, it turns out they just wanted to be seen to comply, but without actually doing it.

And it does seem to be a strange trait we humans have, which can be noticeable from an early age, the example that springs to mind is when a child is told to tidy their room. The brain understands there is a task, and is actually capable of said task, but then decides it wants the result without actually doing the work. The idea of a shortcut develops, a way to clear the mess in minimal time and effort and look to be sorting and cleaning, but actually it all just gets dumped in a box, or pushed under the bed. Now, this does seem like a thought through move to a point, as there is reasoning, action and a result which sort of matches the request. But just as with the old saying ‘brushing it under the carpet or rug’, it remains there until a later time, so you aren’t actually getting ‘the result’ you are getting ‘a result’ which just shifts the problem, issue or request and creates another problem, or the same one just further down the line. Because while there may appear to be instantaneous reasoning for the task, there appears to be very little thought towards purpose and consequence. Now scale up that premise to society, and millions of grown adults being expected to do things and with the outcomes being far more important than just tidying your room. The same tactic will be employed by the brain for many, where it realises it doesn’t have to do the task, but instead just tick a box saying they did it, or delegate the task elsewhere because you can.

And maybe that is why computers and technology is favoured over us in a way, because it really does just do as it’s programmed to, and doesn’t stray outside the parameters it has been set. Will not use reason, or quantify time as money, and money as life as we have to and have been taught to. Because as I have said before, without money it all falls apart, as there is a need for us to accept that system and that our time and lives equate to earnings so that we can ‘live’. And that is why the system needs everyone to be consumed by time, money and greed and wanting to be part of the chain of society, making your money, being successful. Finding your role in that and being compensated for it by way of tokens, that you can only spend at certain shops, that happen to be run by the person that issues you the tokens. How convenient. Then all the shops end up running on the same tokens, so everyone has to have them to ‘buy things’. Who’s That Trip Trapping On My Bridge looks at the gatekeepers who have inserted themselves between you and your item you would like to make a exchange on with the seller. And all these middlemen are now causing a real issue, because not only are they in the way of you and what you would need or want, they all want their cut.

You are no longer a customer, you are a means to an end and instead of being viewed as their profit, you are seen as in the way of their profit. So greedy that in the end that other saying of ‘Don’t Bite The Hand That Feeds You‘ would come into play and people wouldn’t carry on dealing with that business, person or service. But that’s why they tied us all in, with contracts and penalties, agreements and hoops to jump through so we could feel like we ‘earned’ it and go out of our way to ‘qualify’ for society. Well, it seems now that many don’t actually want to qualify for that type of society anymore, because it’s been a front and a sham, where those middlemen have been more content to be seen to be doing things than doing them. Saying the right things, spending the money, gatekeeping and conditioning isn’t a system that is for the good of ‘the people’ at all, it’s for the good of the system and those that benefit from it. Which is maybe why it was important to tie so many in to benefit from it, or at least to appear to, from a few crumbs and pennies here and there to eye-watering sums of money.

Because then you have numbers to help to protect that system if it seems that it’s under threat, numbers on the ground within the masses, who will turn on their own for the sake of their handout. The system is a very long gravy train, with its different compartments dragging another section of society with it, having grades and scales to comply with, forced to buy your ticket, shovel the coal, don’t fit – get thrown off the train. Snowpiercer style. But those getting the cream off the top really don’t want it to end, and it seems many people will do all sorts for just a few crumbs as well. So, keep your wits about you and reasoning skills at the ready, we really in a tight spot at the moment, at the whim of middlemen and mercenaries…

(c) K Wicks