Just a thought of some films, where the main character, or feature of a certain aspect for it is a special power. Telekinensis, often coupled with telepathy. With a particular focus seemingly to be how that ‘power’ came about. The following films are the ones that came to mind for this.

Firestarter (1984) – taken from a Stephen King story, and starred Drew Barrymore. A memorable watch and actually a good film. In this one, she developed pyrokinesis though being the offspring of two people who had been used for military testing, who themselves had developed abilities through that process.

Ascension (TV Mini Series – 2014) – a one series flash in the pan, but rather interesting for what it was. This will contain spoilers – the premise was a bunch of scientists decided to create a simulated space mission, where the occupants didn’t know it was fake. And they stole a number of bright children, put them into the ‘program’ and created an illusion of being on a craft, travelling through space. With an extra layer that they had been doing this for two generations already, and it had these weird rules and systems around breeding and what jobs you were assigned or what your allocated purpose was. But, the strange twist at the end, was that something happened to one of the younger members of the ‘crew’ where she sort of went atomic for a moment and created an energy charge caused by emotional distress. The ones monitoring and controlling the experiment seemed awfully happy with this occurring as they had theorised it would. And then they ended the series, so we’ll never know where they were going with that, but I will speculate on it shortly.

Stranger Things (TV Series – 2016) – a really well thought out and executed series, at least the first and second one. Went a bit weird in the third one and lost me, but the idea initially was great. Similar I suppose to Firestarter, the main focus being a young girl who is the offspring of someone affected by military testing of drugs. And who themselves have developed telekinetic and various linked abilities.

Carrie (1976) – another Stephen King one, where an isolated, lonely teenage girl discovers horrifying telekinetic powers when pushed to the emotional edge. Again, well done and worth a watch.

Dr Jean Grey (X-Men films) – A running character and one of the main ones, but has the highest ability afforded in any fictional character along these lines.

Now, having telepathic characters, or angry women who are ‘activated’ when needed to use special abilities isn’t anything new, or technically out of the ordinary when you are talking fiction or science fiction. But, when I looked at those storylines (have to admit, didn’t think of any featuring boys as the ones who get that same power), it struck me how they were all girls or women. And the running theme of most of them, is that it needs to be suppressed if it can’t be controlled. Now, that could just be a classic analogy to recreate societal ideals, or it really could be about fearing something in females, that hasn’t necessarily become known. I already speculated on women having more power than some would like when it comes to reproduction in The Creator and the Destroyer. Another film comes to mind too with that, Species.

But for a wild, fictional, speculatory theory one could say that women have almost been feared at some point, and it was deemed necessary to bind them, hold them down and condition them to believe they are weak, and powerless in the bigger scheme of things. At the mercy of patriarchy and male domination, beholden to rules and standards set and enforced by them, leading to a rather downtrodden percentage of the population. I also notice though, that isn’t entirely true, as if you look back through history, and fiction, women have possessed great power, or authority. To the point of terrifying in some cases, witches, goddesses, sirens and more. Vengeful, devious, filled with rage and unforgiving torment in more than a few stories. And it may well be that it’s trying to be brought out and harnessed, as it always is portrayed in the films, caused deliberately with a view to control it. But that kind of thing surely is just fiction, isn’t it?

(c) K Wicks

Further to my article The Three D’s of Conversion under Coercion – I realised there are others, that go a long way towards people’s ability to be part of ‘the system’. Things which seem to facilitate the indoctrination process or at least make it a smoother process, at least for mayhem. It causes quite the stir when people or society are just trying to be ‘normal’.

Delusion – this plays a big part of many lives, whether it be a personal delusion, or a group one, people have a great ability to indulge them. And there are plenty of things that will play into that, ego, experience, need and circumstance. And I can’t always say it is a bad thing with a destructive end, as it may serve to help people as a coping mechanism at certain points in their lives.

Desensitisation – being switched off to reality, seeing it, experiencing it, but not feeling it. Again, there are a few reasons that may occur, but if you add to the amounts of toxins and chemicals we willingly ingest, that could play a key role there. More Than Pain gets Killed goes into that a little more.

Denial – or lying as some like to call it, for what it is. Lying to yourself or others, it is denying the truth. Which to some may not seem like a lie, because you think it is an opinion. But as in my article, If Truth be Told, there are two truths – personal ones and absolute ones. And the personal ones are the opinions and what you hold true to you, and the others are supposed to be facts. But the lines are being blurred between the two currently, and personal opinion is being touted as absolute fact. Disturbing to say the least. Yet it is the mechanism for denial that allows that trait to run riot, to override logic and reason is clearly there in many, the consequences of which we are seeing in society as it is also being facilitated by certain areas of society. To what end we can only wonder, but it seems to be there to destabilise cohesion and create a discord within oneself and others. Perhaps.

Deception – seems to be a strategy trait, to gain an advantage over your ‘opponent’. Because once you go down that road of deception, you are playing a game, and that person becomes your opponent, whether people are actively aware of it or not. You want to win, or to have more than them, or to keep something from them so are seeking to deceive for a purpose, and more often than not, it’s for a selfish purpose.

Dysfunction – not quite as easy as the others, although they can all be down to perception and opinion. But if someone adapts to the dysfunctional, therefore does it then become normal? And if you are surrounded by it, and act in the same way, how are you to really know it even is dysfunctional? And by default, doesn’t that then make it ‘normal’. Which is why maybe when you see people living in different conditions to you, or in a different way, it might only seem dysfunctional to one side of the view. Or what we now see as normal, was once viewed as batshit crazy. All a matter of timing and perspective, I guess.

Once you start to really look at how people function, and how much of it has been moulded by institutions and society as a whole, I guess the big D of disturbing comes into play, to overshadow all of the above, dragging with it doom, disaster and destruction as they might like us to believe. But I can’t help thinking that is just how it appears, that delusion has been used against us all, to keep us playing along with what we are told is the bigger picture, and the ‘greater good’. But maybe it needs to be scaled back a bit, for more personal responsibility for your thoughts, and to refocus on your surroundings and life, before they take your full attention for something happening somewhere else, to someone else. There is a time to be mindful of out there and others, and there is a time to bring it back to you, it’s about knowing when which one is right…

(c) K Wicks

I have written many articles about society, and how it appears to have been engineered and people’s lives and attitudes shaped quite intentionally, and know I am not the first by any means to notice this. And of my recent ones, Leading to a State of Mind looks at how women have been geared up to have a certain way of thinking towards ‘opportunities’ presented or afforded to them by society – as well as my article Digging for Gold, or Freedom?. But alongside that, I have also noticed and have been discussing the other side of socially engineering the mentality of all people across the board, towards fear and its effects it can then have on controlling people and influencing their behaviour. See articles – Living in Fear, and Living in Fear, An update for how the various tactics were laid out over the years from a certain perspective.

It’s only more recently though I have come to realise that it is many things that have been used for purpose. And once I start to unpick them, or give thought to how or why you might orchestrate certain events, it seems there is much to see. I gave it thought towards serial killers that have been made infamous by way of media in Nature or Nurture?, but will come back to that type of subject, where the media plays a pivotal role, and people’s thoughts are infiltrated with horrific events, possibilities and outcomes to contend with.

Recently I saw talk of milk cartons, and the marketing campaign of missing children being printed on them that swept through in the 70′ and 80’s I believe it was. Now, I have come across this subject before, but more the extra sinister side of it where it crosses over into the realms of the Nephilim, clowns and all sorts of strange things. But the idea was put forward, of there never being any missing children, they were all apparently fabricated – which I have to admit, I still hadn’t considered. But why would they do that you might ask? As I did. Well, if we were to look at it through cynical eyes, one could say it was for the purpose of putting fear into the minds of children, to make them afraid and seeking ‘safety’ in the authorities, with a daily conditioning reminder by way of the breakfast table. Knowing that would be the sure-fire way to get them each and every morning as you couldn’t rely on children watching the news or reading the papers now, could you? It then plants the seeds for parents also feeling afraid for their children, paving the way for more restrictions placed within the family structure, by the family structure. The authorities can then appear to offer further restrictions as ‘help’ in the guise of surveillance solutions, funding, laws to help curb the new fears lurking on every corner – but never actually preventing them, and in fact leading to more of them often it would seem. Neatly captured and exposed with all the gruesome details laid bare in the media, the shock, the horror, the aftermath, the lessons and changes to take place thereafter to bring about whatever mentality or rule required.

But some people fail to see the purpose or fallout from said changes, or even notice they occurred in some cases, thinking maybe it was always that way, or easily forgetting what came before or thinking it was just a natural consequence of ‘normal society’. The social and mental implications of events have always interested me, from reading about terrible things in the past, and then wondering on how that might have changed the general mindset of people. Or conditioned them for a new way of thinking, it is not hard to influence people, and if you do it at the right time of their life, it seems you can create all sorts of issues and worries thereafter. Creating a heightened state of alert, or concern, or focus for the fear so it can grow, be nurtured and then be steered or manipulated when needed. Knowing if you have primed people for a certain response, then mostly that is how they will respond when faced with a similar feeling or threat. Then placing triggers and traps along the way for those things to stay in the psyche, or be activated when the time is right, Laying the Foundations for what is to come…

(c) K Wicks

Perfection is a strange thing, and can be down to the viewer or creator to decide. Each person’s perception and idea of what perfection is, determining whether is it good enough, or not quite, as it has to be ‘perfect’. And we have people here and there who are called perfectionists, ones who cannot stand not to reach their own standard, and it usually gets put above others’ ideas of it.

But why do we seek perfection when it gets like that in mind? Is it because there is a random perfection to nature we want to emulate or believe we are capable of but not achieving? Or is it because there is so much chaos, we think we can create perfection through order, completely overlooking the beauty and order that can be found in chaos. Instead focusing on the rigid parameters we believe lead to that attainment? But even then, it is only a matter of opinion mostly, someone else could still find fault in it, or an improvement found or thought of. Beyond what you have seen.

In these current times though, people seem rather taken with how they appear, with a want for what is deemed a perfect aesthetic, beauty. A standard set by industries and reinforced through more industries, using the psychology of people and our predisposition to vanity and ego against us in the bigger scheme of things. Giving a tainted view of what is considered perfection before we even understand the concept of it. That saying we have ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ should not be overlooked, as it is a good example of how perception ties in. I have already talked about Perceptions of Self in a previous article, but think it’s important to understand your own view and standard towards these things.

The need of the perfectionist, once allowed to indulge their perceived standards, can rage out of control somewhat. And result in all sorts of tragic and abhorrent views and behaviours. Mix into that personal desire, experience and resources, then you get a possible disaster. Because if that said type of person were running the show, they would make life hell for everyone else who they deem not up to standard. Setting impossible targets and goals others will fail at, leading to the compounding belief they were right, you weren’t good enough, attractive enough, smart enough. Or the right colour, or from the right place, and so on.

If someone or something is trying to convince you that you aren’t good enough for any reason, rather than jump straight to feeling bad about it, or taking it personally, firstly think of the motivation of the teller. And why they would want you to think you aren’t perfect, is it because it reveals that it is they who think you aren’t perfect and require it to be deflected, so you will try and please them, change yourself, for their ideals. Rather than call them out on their unrealistic and unhealthy view. Society functions like that too it seems and can be observed as well in personal relationships, family dynamics and anywhere you have people really. And having a standard isn’t the problem, it seems to be once you believe everyone else has to adhere to that unrealistic standard. That is where we definitely have a problem…

(c) K Wicks

Women and reasons they do not want children these days, and why they might want to have abortions is something that has been in the mainstream of late in various forms. Aside from the modern argument that currently exists, I saw another angle mentioned on a podcast, about how society has steered some of these mentalities. So, I gave it thought having seen women screaming at each over it at protests online, as well as try to have a calm and well-reasoned discussion.

Although I have recently written about orphans and how children have been used as a commodity, as a tool of society and conditioning and of leverage. (See articles A Train of Thought and A Rather Dark Enterprise). I can see that women have had a strange set up too, as the ones who are required to birth the next generation, expectations and demand clearly have played their role.

We are led to believe that it starts from the top down, with a royal expectation for a male heir, and then it filters down. And in general society also, with very different roles ‘of the household’ moulding the mentality. Slowly moving away from family structures and natural processes, instead to be replaced with updated quotas and interference. Because there has been interference of some kind for the longest time.

Being told you do not have absolute right over your offspring, being denied a place in society if you get pregnant outside of the rules of wedlock. Not allowed financial independence, therefore placing burdens of breeding on women without much freedom outside of that. For hundreds of years at least, as well as being educated to a lower level, or not at all. All plays its part in creating a certain landscape and state of mind, passed down through the generations in many cases. With the trauma and conditions of that time being felt for more than an age after, and the continued Social Status and stigmas to carry it all on.

And of those rules, some led to other behaviour, very much not a maternal one. In the Victorian times, they had nurses who would take on the care of others children. One in particular actually murdered over 400 children and babies it is said, check out Amelia Dyer if you are unfamiliar with that. But it was a baby farming enterprise she was running, and women gave their children to her, and paid her to look after them. A strange case really, and as it led to stricter laws on adoption and the formation of the NSPCC, I have suspicions about its authenticity. But the idea that women needed to offload their children, or pay someone else to look after them, or adopt them, leads me to ask why?

With our current engineered cost of living crisis, its easy to see how society is set up to create the conditions necessary for things to occur. For a state of mind to develop, to see children as potentially a burden rather than a blessing. The joy of parenting being replaced by the stress of survival, with your landscape being remoulded and redefined within that.

And it’s not just casual interference being added to that, when you think of the rules that surround breeding or the laws created to ensnare you into ‘the system’ by way of your children as if it’s one big baby farm. With more extreme outcomes in some cases than others, with caps on numbers and certain sexes favoured over others.

I saw a clip of an Indian woman last year, kind of casually explaining how she had killed 9 of her own babies over the years after they were born, because they were girls. There was no compassion or remorse in what she was saying, but there was a worn-down emptiness to her expression. Fear seems to drive an awful lot of the reasons put forward, fear of being judged, fear of failure, fear of not affording it, pressure or influence from others. So many reasons, and most of them sound like a product of society and reasoning, not instinct or nature. But within that instinct and nature will be intermingled, and perhaps why it is such a fierce debate. Carrying forward centuries of injustice mixed with modern logic. I guess that could be said of many things these days.

But the overall mentality of women, their perceived worth and thought process towards things has been a long time in the making and is nurtured, but not in a maternal way, in fact quite the opposite. And all of those rules and restrictions had a price and an effect, which could perhaps be part of why it’s so split between people on the ground in society. The For and Against battling it out, all leading to a certain state of mind, where the state is always in your mind…

(c) K Wicks