Television

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I have already speculated on TV’s being portals in my article A Portal, and mention some of the following films in it –

Nightmare on Elm Street

The Ring

Pleasantville

Mike TV from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Where there is a merger between the two, or the lines that usually separate the two become blurred, or disappear altogether and one crosses into the other. And what of that ‘other reality’? The one we think is safely behind a screen, 3D images being presented on a 2D screen for us to perceive as a form of reality. To entice and influence, to entertain and distract. Giving us a condensed, fabricated, edited and glorified version of ‘life’. Or at least the version they have written for us, just as they have with history, people realise they have doctored the past to fit what they want people to ‘know’. And so to with the present, so even now what you think is happening or becoming ‘history’ is tainted. It will be written how they want it to be remembered, not with what actually happened. you can see how handy being able to label something as misinformation can be.

But looking beyond the somewhat fictional aspect to the first part of this article and knowing that in our physical realm, we can’t go into the TV and what is presented on the screen can’t escape and take form. We can easily understand how it is used to manipulate and expose people to ideas and concepts they would otherwise not encounter. Helping the wheels of Consumerism greatly and how they sought to reshape society on a basic level, through mass ‘entertainment’. The First Fad covers the motivators and methods for that, and Turning off the TV covers the realisation of it and taking steps to not be part of that particular angle of programming going forward.

Because it’s been with us for more than a few generations now, and people’s attachment to it and what it represents to them, seems to be very ingrained now for many. I have pointed out before how for some, their expectations of themselves and others are based on a carefully crafted, scripted, edited and simulated version of real life. Possibly leading to frustrations, confusions and a general lack of understanding of people, or the actual expectations real life would have demanded. Because even that is now subject to change, like the people who shape society, are trying to make it more ridiculous like you would see in the fictional set ups. Crazy ideals and people allowed to take centre stage, to dictate and be in charge. If this were a TV show, you can believe they would have lost their audience long ago, and would have had to cancel the show, it would have been slated in the reviews and anyone playing a part, would have faded into the mist. But as these ‘players’ are actually the heads of countries, and whoever wrote the script for this seems to be desperately trying to hold it all together, almost writing new characters and storylines as each day goes on. Adding even more ridiculousness to the crazy and unbelievable episodes we find ourselves in, many of us wondering, when is someone finally going to pull the plug…

(c) K Wicks

The Great Conjunction

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This article is looking at the film The Dark Crystal, it’s fiction and a children’s film no less, but one I like and it’s one of those films that pops back up in thought now and again. More so recently.

I have mentioned it before in relation to a process within it, of draining energy from creatures by way of the crystal and turning them into slaves. But the overall premise of the story is a long stretching one, with conflict, battles and prophecies. Of cycles and a change in the order of things when the conjunction occurs.

“The Great Conjunction is the end of the world! Or the beginning. End, begin, all the same. Big change. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. ~ Aughra”

It reminds of giving thought to the Phoenix event story we have in our reality, even though it is apparently a simulated one, and of alignments in our ‘solar system’, looking like spiral path being followed. With eclipses and a termination point, or recycling point, where it all starts over. Like a clock having a countdown, or a reset I guess, as we do every day when the sun rises and we start over again.

But in The Dark Crystal, three suns align and a new age dawns – with a fair amount of adventure and peril in between of course, yet the idea of multiple suns kept coming up in mind. Making me also think of the multiple suns in Star Wars visible on Tatooine, wondering if there are other lands further from us on this realm, that have a different view from us. And when they talk of blocking out the sun, could it be because it will start to become obvious? Of the pending conjunction or that there is more out there in close proximity than is being admitted? Perhaps that is why we have stories of Niribu, one of the other suns that is visible now and again on its route, or a shadow of it is. Because while we usually think of suns as bright and glowing, perhaps there is a black sun, which may almost look as a black hole would in our astronomical imagination. But perhaps that is what Niribu is, a dark sun as the opposite of our known light sun, and I even went as far as to think that the moon may have also once been a sun – or in fact still is. As it seems to have its own light source to a point, could it be that it’s a super dim small version, but still part of the mechanical system. Playing its own more noticeable part. Just a strange a wandering thought…

(c) K Wicks

Gen X

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I have done an article on Gen Z, and speculating on that being the ‘zombie generation’, and how they seem to have it in society. But this one will be for Gen X, the last vestige of an upbringing and attitude that no longer exists. But the product of it does. Us. The X-ers. And recently I’ve watched an American woman do a couple of funny shorts, answering random internet people who ask, “Are Gen X-ers okay?” and “Didn’t y’all have access to sinks when you were a kid, why drink out of the hose?”. Well, her response nails it to me, and although done in a funny, punchy and humorous way, the truth in what she responds with is great. With classic timing and delivery, summing up, literally, some people’s childhoods, homelife, upbringing and influences, in a very concise and hilarious manner. Being locked out of the house all day, forgotten about by parents, had to feed yourself for the day, fend for yourself kind of thing. And if you are one of those ‘drink out of the hose’ kids, you possibly know what she means.

I have written briefly about escapades of childhood in The Hay Bale Incident, and of a time before technology in The Before Time, but I guess hadn’t fully appreciated the affects of those times on people, and how it creates a certain attitude amongst an entire generation. Mostly. There will always be ones who didn’t, or who can’t relate to that at all and within it there will be those who had extra weird childhoods as their parents were very good at even looking after themselves, let alone kids. But the toughened attitude that many in that age group now present, can’t be entirely by accident, can it? Maybe the ones from the 70’s and 80’s were meant to be the forgotten generations, the ones who fell through the cracks during recessions, financial collapses and whatever crisis they could manufacture to keep it as they wanted. Giving them an extra hammering now, and including the Millennials as they will also now be the ones with children, mortgages and businesses. The boomers having retired, and Gen-Z not quite able to get involved, and looking as though they will be locked out of ever having the opportunities we did. And it might seem like progress to think they get all new ones, and if it was anything positive and inspiring being pushed for the future, I would be behind it. It does not appear to be the case though, and if they don’t know any different, does it matter?

Being resilient, and practical, and being able to ‘fend for yourself’ aren’t traits that everyone has, or has even retained into adulthood if they did need to be a bit more savvy back in the day. Not all are able to get through childhood and life completely unaided, and despite appearances, many have their scars, emotional and physical. Understanding that what made you who you are, was often a product of someone else’s failure, distraction or circumstance. Lives overlapping and intertwining as we all end up sharing a certain space and time, whether we get on or not, or like each other or not, or can even relate to each other or not. Here we all are. But in the latest twist in society, it would seem that having those traits, or the extra behaviours that followed on from them was not entirely foreseen. Or maybe they were and that is why there is such a push to make people believe they need a label, and a medication that inevitably follows. To be convinced you are a problem, the problem, and it needs to be ‘fixed’. Because otherwise, we might have all spotted sooner that society is the problem, and how it has been set to work. It’s anyone guess whether there really are generational differences that are so easily defined by when you were born, or what you were taught. But if there wasn’t, it makes me wonder why they would spend so much time and energy separating us all out and making sure we have different societies to grow up in. That no decade can be like the last, constantly changing things to keep it all up in the air and never actually progressing, just the illusion of it…

(c) K Wicks