Thoughts

Playing Chicken

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Some of you might have played that game in your childhood. The skill-based danger game of dodging traffic. The point is to get to the other side unharmed, and ideally not cause a crash or issue other than to show off to your mates. Or prove something to them and yourself.

But lately it feels like a big weird game of chicken going on, with higher stakes, more showing off, not so much care for not causing harm to others, and strangely, actual chickens are now involved. We know there are extra regulations trying to muscle their way into food production, farming and agriculture generally. Herd culls, rewilding, printed ‘meat’, raw milk, numbers, stats and targets from models and ideas of control. All of it neatly leading to a major disruption in the well laid systems there for food sustainability. Almost as if they think people have lost the ability to think ahead or imagine consequences. And if you understand that the ones playing chicken want those consequences, well, like I said, it ups the stakes and changes the ‘game’ somewhat.

Birds – there has been various attempts on the bird population along the way, or it could have just simply been a benign way to familiarise people with the programming to come. To believe the news when they talk of a virus, to accept what scientists say about it, to have fear about what it could become. And then the inevitable effect it has on the farm, or area they designate as being ‘infected’. Then other species become the target, and nobody notices because its small and one farm at a time, one sanctuary, one factory, one industry at a time. Slowly cutting it all back.

Chickens – like I said, chickens and birds have been used before for purpose of whipping up a frenzy and used as a handy tool. Currently a rule is attempting to come into force in October in the UK, to force anyone who keeps domestic birds or chickens to register them. Just like previous times which has morphed into The Digital Doomsday Database, this is adding to that upgrade.

Because chickens are rather awesome, they provide a consistent food source which is highly nutritious for us, and potentially many other benefits. They are great at dealing with food scraps, eat insects and vermin, therefore are natural pest control, and are an extra food source if needed.

Food chain – I think of the overall importance of each farm animal that gets targeted the most, and clearly cows and chickens are top of the list. And for cows, they also provide consistently, have extra purpose and uses, are food and help to keep the land in check. But, I also realised that the raw milk aspect might be linked to the amazing discovery of curing smallpox, as when that was prevalent, it was milk maids they say who didn’t get infected. Leading me to wonder if certain animals are there to protect us in a way, through that process of eating. Strange I know, but when everything seems so perfectly placed and developed for our consumption, I wonder if it is necessary.

I’ve already speculated on eating soulless and dead food that has never had ‘life’ in You Are What You Eat, and is the opposite view I guess to the vegetarian or vegan thought process behind it. That we need certain things to remain part of what we have come to know as the natural world, like in Spirited Away when the supernatural food is eaten, they become part of the weird and unnatural landscape. And it really is starting to feel as though a very weird and unnatural landscape is trying to be created, attempting to deceive your senses and replace your instinct. But deep down, we know, or at least many do, that this is not the way it is meant to be…

(c) K Wicks

Big, Yet Small

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I have already written articles about Giants, and their smaller counterpart covered in Little People, but this one was of thinking of how we have represented the smaller version in stories and films. Wondering again if there is some kind of smaller world we aren’t entirely aware of, or that we are the smaller ones and world already.

Alice in Wonderland – and that first strange room she needed to get through. With the eat me and drink me potions to make her big and small to fit through the door. But because everything was quite off there, it was difficult to discern thereafter, how big or small anything was as there was no starting point. Alice herself would have been the starting point had she remained the same size as in the ‘real world’, but as she didn’t, you weren’t able to tell unless they hinted at a large difference, i.e. walking through the ‘oversized’ flowers, making us think again that Alice was small and the flowers were what we would think of as normal size.

Honey I shrunk the kids – this shouldn’t really need any further explanation, even if you haven’t seen it, the title really does tell it like it is. The perils of being small in a big world, although comedy, was still a good idea to convey the sudden differences faced when you are a very small fish in a big pond.

Inner Space – a film about shrinking down someone to be put into the bloodstream of a human body. Seemed like just a bit of fun back then, these days, not so much once you know what scientists appear to be getting up to.

Downsizing – one I haven’t seen other than a clip for the trailer, of people wanting to shrink down to a smaller size to they can have more and be less of a drain on the normal size world. Creating a miniature functioning society, where the old world becomes full of giants and rather large structures, and the new small world gets on or something like that. Maybe what we think of as giants of the past, were just normal, and we were the shrunken weirdos?

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Mike TV, the annoying kid who gets transported into the television, but shrunk down as was the chocolate bar, to be fully formed, just smaller, or indeed, larger.

It’s a fascinating and crazy idea when you think of either supersizing, or minimising something which then remains intact and as it was just with a new size. And given all the things we have in the world which show where things were indeed much larger, and we have all been scaled down through temperature, climate and atmosphere over time. Imagine if that change was more instantaneous and could be caused by those things, it might be of interest to then create something that could harness that potential. Creating large and small as needed rather than waiting for nature to mosey along on its own timescale, people are impatient and mortal, so I can see why we find it hard to ‘wait and see’. But all that tinkering and experimenting comes at a price, and one I am not sure we are yet aware of…

(c) K Wicks

Making Money From Misery

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It’s become obvious for many now in society, that helping people and creating a decent working society is no longer on the cards. If indeed it ever was, instead it appears we had a neat veil of respectability placed over the ‘systems of society’ so that we didn’t see their darker method and motive. Until a power move was played which has revealed much of it and exposed a very real and sinister enterprise.

It was touched upon in my article Robbin in the Hood

“Because once you start profiting from someone’s misery, what incentive would there be to try and end said misery, if profit is your main objective?”

And from a slightly different angle in It All Starts To Unravel,

“Misery is a monitored man; I will tell you that now. They monitor you in prison, they put you in isolation in prison, and they have a lack of privacy in prison for a reason – because it is a punishment.”

And of course, we have noticed how there seems to be a push to monitor everyone and their daily transactions of life, which of course, makes money for someone somewhere. But it isn’t just about money, because that’s just the front of it, it’s all wrapped up in time, which itself is a construct, but for this it’s real, just as their money is. And it’s a two-fold problem really, firstly we have to use our time to make money in various ways, and then use that money to buy things, which then occupy our time. And when it comes to entertainment, it’s a perfect circle. Your time makes money, you buy the ticket, book, music, DVD, etc, and then you spend your time indulging in it. Like it says ‘Spend Your Time’ and what else do we spend? Yes, money.

These days though, we are being railroaded to pay for our own enslavement, with time and money. With someone else making profits from that misery, which they then reinvest into keeping the misery going and expanding it. Because you know, more profits need more struggle, more hardship, more money and more time from the people who facilitate it. The public. Previously it appeared to be the prison system that was the most enterprising of this idea, to encourage people down a certain path in life, so you inevitably end up in their ‘mousetrap’ and cycle of incentives and punishments. A special project running within the human ‘Beautiful Mice‘ project that calls itself society. An expansion is on the cards though, where the prison gets larger, becomes a mixture of maximum security and open, decides everyone is a criminal for something, and then you all get lumped in together. Of course, that wouldn’t work well in a real prison, so isn’t going well in a larger, less organised and highly populated setting, although it seems that is the point. To force a situation where people end up actually begging for further systems and monitoring, to ‘keep them safe’ from the issues created by the people who will then offer you digital sanctuary.

But misery is a rather large industry, like the beauty industry, think how much that has reaped over the decades, not just selling products but as with much, they need to sell you an idea first. Of standards, of what they consider ugly and beautiful, people, marketing campaigns and offers, changing the way people think towards things and themselves. People don’t seem to have noticed that misery has also become an industry, and actually overshadows all others now in my view, because it was allowed to fester and run alongside everything else. Alcoholics make money for the system by consuming, and then needing ‘care’ to recover, same with drugs – although they also make money for the system in a number of ways by adding to crime as well, mental health issues, general health issues and disorders, and so on. My article What Are We Worth? has already noted the following –

“A healthy person just going about their lives appears to make very little money for ‘the corporation’ as it goes. It would appear that the vast amounts of money they make from us is carefully engineered to be that way, by means of shopping and consumerism, food and pharmaceuticals, addictions and interests.”

Understanding that they want illness, they want crime, they want people to be confused, addicted, lost and stressed and unable to find which way is up, because it gives them an easy way to pretend to be there to help. Wanting to be there to offer comfort and support, but in fact they are grooming you to accept their next dose of harm which will be administered by someone else so you don’t associate it with them. And it will be one of your own kind somewhere down the line, so you don’t worry or notice the real intent and motive behind it. Like if someone hired some thugs to kick the shit out of you and then turns up to be shocked and offer you comfort, getting an extra kick out of seeing the harm they have caused first hand, and even more so as they know the ‘victim’ doesn’t know it was them. But people have been herded into these systems for decades now, and each one seems to lead neatly back to government contracts and control, taxpayer money being used to create more problems and enslavement, more monitoring and digital ID being held over people’s heads, like the sword of Damocles precariously dangling above us all.

But make no mistake, each of these system we have now create an industry of misery covering all quarters of society, which then creates lots of money and control for others. And has been like it in various forms for hundreds of years now, check out my article A Working Strategy to see how it has developed over the centuries. From servitude, to employment contracts at mop fairs, to wars, prisons, work houses, orphanages, schools and being Institutionalised in various ways to fit the ‘need of the corporation’ at the time. It was always pushed as though society developed to have those things, but when I give them real thought, none of them would have been for the good for society, they were to create a fearful, worried and stressed population, fearful of crime, war, financial collapse etc. Changing the mentality and stability of areas, people’s and ideas. Another article ties in here, Leading to a State of Mind, And Fear, speculating on the methods you might use to create a certain mindset, where it hadn’t quite materialised yet in a physical sense, pushing it along somewhat. Because to make money out of that misery, first you have create it…

(c) K Wicks

High Street or Low Street?

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This is a follow-up article to The Death of the High Street, because that was written in 2019, before a crippling blow was dealt, and as I pointed out in that article, it felt more like the suicide of the high street rather than just the death of. But I figure now, it was helped along to be that way. Businesses have been going on about rates, rents and other things that councils and governments imposed on them, a slow drip of licenses, regulations and rules. Now we see the farmers making noise, and various areas of society have over the years, tried to sound some kind of alarm but it would have always been overwritten, made about pay, or simply dismissed.

The high street though used to be an integral part of communities, the hub of an area, of trade and economy. Albeit a structed one that previously was created and imposed on people, but with at least it seemed, a small semblance of people in mind and their needs. Now those are firmly ignored in place of a corporate model for all areas. High streets becoming a long line of corporate chains, making them beholden to a parent company, and the other shops that have been allowed to take hold, appear to be front businesses. Where the footfall doesn’t quite appear to be enough to sustain such a premises, and they were always there, just different products on show.

But it seems people weren’t really prepared mentally for the shift that occurred, when most of the businesses of this country were told to close their doors. Shops, offices, schools and all the other trades where people need to work to earn money to survive. A crafty move when you look at it as a bold strategy to change the face of society and community in one foul swoop. Re-organising how people work, disrupting and dictating how and if they can travel, deciding if you were allowed to see loved ones or not, even on their deathbed. Because of course, no-one could overlook the fact that the hospitals also chose to close and, in some cases, actually barricaded their premises. Sounds unheard of in a ‘health crises’, but makes sense when you look at the bigger picture.

And the bigger picture for this angle, is that clearly they don’t want self-sustaining towns and cities where the people just get on and get by, not having to check in every five minutes, and taking control of their own communities and areas. The 15-minute corporate makeover being pushed in all areas of the globe should be of great concern to people, because what they are doing is destroying what we have and what worked perfectly well. To then rebrand, repackage and repurpose it for their benefit, and try and offer it as a better and brighter solution. Just as they did when they convinced people before they needed to have councils, schools, taxes and people to tell you what to do. To outsource responsibility and your life to them, making people dependent on those ‘services’, changing the way people think towards care, education, health and generally towards life. Outsourcing all of those things along the way, and now paying dearly for it it would seem in more than just monetary terms…

(c) K Wicks

Scheduled for Learning

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To break down your mentality, personality and identity as well as your natural state of being. I have already given thought to the general conditioning via the school system in Institutionalised, and many have noticed it as a central point of ‘information’ for many throughout their childhoods. Making sure we are all ‘reading from the same page’ and all that.

But when thinking of the aspect of attention spans, and how I felt that children shouldn’t be stuck in a building all day surrounded by people they essentially aren’t familiar with on a personal level, I realised something else. That rather than trying to increase attention spans at all, it seemed more of a disruptor of them. This is mostly from a secondary school point of view, and was given thought again as I mulled over how ADHD came to be. Wondering again if it’s environmental, medical, or psychological based on the other options. And I thought of how hard it was to concentrate at school, and then mentally ran through what it was that created a disturbance.

The weekly planner. The list of all the classes, all the subjects and time slots, gearing you up for your week ahead, filling your head with all that had been scheduled for you, for you to adhere to and be ‘subjected’ to. Now, it may well be that some people are the type to be heavily distracted by thoughts of all the things you are going to do, and there are those who prefer to think about what they are doing, or both. But it’s a one size fits all program, where if you don’t fit, they attempt to ‘shave off the edges’ to make it so. Square peg and round hole springs to mind. But the point being, many people aren’t good at organising, or planning ahead or wanting to even think about the next day let alone next week, deadlines, exams, or just continuous structure someone else decided.

And is it just possible, that by forcing people to have one-hour lessons (ish), constantly chopping and changing in one day, never being able to get into anything properly, different teachers, subjects, ideas and always on the clock, this has a lasting effect. Watching and waiting for your allotted break time, lesson time, lunchtime, home time. Lots of time and the concept of it being used to control people and their mindsets. Never able to get into a subject, because it’s time to move on, cutting that thought process dead in the water, expecting you to just pick it up again when they say so. Switching to the next potentially complex subject, but after moving you to another room, mingling with people and being distracted even further by a hint of life, then it’s quashed again so you can ‘learn’. But it seems that what we were to be learning, was in fact to have a short attention span, and to be able to work to schedules and deadlines, to organise ourselves for that lifetime of employment, and of course to increase our capacity for multiple subjects of thought at once. Perhaps to prime us for the onslaught of propaganda and technology that was come, making sure we are ‘trained’ for maximum input.

Or it was simply a consequence of that environment, my article A Consequence, or a Cause? would be relevant here. Because I do wonder how much of our behaviour as individuals and in a group, is natural, conditioned or as a side-effect of what we are subjected to as a routine within what they have called society. And as we are forced to spend many, many years of our lives in the system, one can’t but help to realise it has an effect, whether it be seen as a good one or bad one is down to the individual. Because aside from the conditioning purpose they are there for, it seems they have a side game running, of an odd set up where psychological issues are created, observed and medicated. And now we have the schools changing it up a gear, to saturate and groom the new generations with confusion and fear while the societal landscape is being re-arranged around us all. As it seems has happened before…

(c) K Wicks