The accidential traveller

It seems that the world is intent on splitting up after years of apparently trying to come together. Despite their call for a one world government and unified global project, they seem to do the opposite of what they say, so could they really be looking to divide it up instead? Under the guise of climate change currently, but first it was the ‘pandemic’ that threatened to cut us all off, but it didn’t quite work out that way for all, but some countries still are following that MO (Canada and New Zealand). But there is much emphasis now being put on travel. The fuel, the emissions, the cost, to the planet apparently. Yet it seems rather clear and hypocritical that most (if not all) of the unhinged people shouting for it, travel the most and in the most elaborate fashion. The latest funny article being that the people who recently heckled a political event, have extensive travel pictures splashed all over their social media pages. As long as people are aware that ‘activists’ usually have an agenda as ridiculous as the people they claim to be fighting then you know to ignore them too. Two sides of the same coin.

But for some, travelling is a lifestyle, or a dream they look forward to, and one that is being used as a weapon against them, dangled as a carrot or treated as a special privilege. I knew they would do it quite some time ago, not how they would enact it, but that they would slowly restrict what you enjoy doing. Whatever that is. I was wrong about one thing though; they didn’t do it slowly. They took away everything all at once, and then drip fed it back. I had thought that bit through, and decided if you take certain things away from yourself, then they don’t get to do it, or control if you want it or not. Not everyone saw that coming, or wanted to believe the government would turn into the most overbearing, controlling and psychologically manipulative parent type. I guess if you have actually had a parent like that, it makes the signs easier to spot, even if the entity is a large corporation rather than an individual.

Travelling for now though is the main focus of control, major disruptions at big airports in various countries, some places doing testing, some places not having enough staff (remember they sacked loads for not complying). Canada being the first to demand an app be downloaded and used for entry, with a $6000 fine if you don’t comply, because you know, it’s for your health. They are so desperate to get everyone hooked up to a digital central system by way of health, food, finance, education, leisure etc and are actually like petulant children when it doesn’t go their way. You must stop travelling, you must eat bugs, you breath too much air and on and on. Except not for all though, is it? It has caught everybody’s attention that people are flooding in in to the UK via a small strip of water between us and France, and the US has an issue at the Mexican border apparently. These people appear to not be under the same laws, rules and regulations as everyone else, being allowed to just walk into a country and get given a new life at the expense of the people already there. It’s becoming very strange and the only logical conclusion appears to be a displacement of the current population, right under their noses. But I still feel that these newcomers have walked straight into a trap though, and that feeling I cannot shake.

The establishment do seem rather taken with the idea of that central system and point of all information though. Potentially they tried through the medium of ‘healthcare’ to get everyone on board. If they could have convinced everyone to get the jab, and download the app, job done. But they didn’t. So, is this just phase 2 of the plan, or a different approach? They still won’t get everyone though via travel abroad, as not everyone does it, and domestic travel would still not get everyone. So, is it really that are after in their end goal? Seems not. Or maybe they can manage with only a certain percentage hooked up. Every angle that appears has holes in it, and could be the sign of a plan that really isn’t in the bag and doesn’t have an end goal now because it’s got so messy. Or, it’s meant to appear that way and is part of the plan. Either way, all options need to be considered simultaneously until the truth is known.

I have no desire to travel whatsoever, although I have been lucky enough in my life to travel to a number of places, and live abroad a few times as well. Being somewhere else can be lovely, getting there is not. And as I have gotten older, it has become apparent to me that I find it very stressful and don’t particularly want to do it. Not so great if you have a partner that likes to travel, but that’s the way it goes. The way they have messed with each country though recently, each in a different way and now are being super weird about travel generally, I should imagine it’s become a very stressful process for many, if not all. It’s strange watching it all change, knowing I have been to places like the US and Canada, visited various countries in Europe, been to an African country and spent many years just being interested in various other countries, people, their economies and practices. It’s easy to see they are shafting everyone. Each taking their turn to be paraded by MSM as the next country to ‘fall’ into disarray and turn on itself. But they aren’t, Sri-Lanka seems to be in the firing line at the moment, they are giving them the squeeze. Fertilizer bans, sky-high fuel prices, government collapses – and guess what, they just happened to be ready to roll out an app to help allocate fuel to the worthiest, which of course affects everyone. They want the scenes we get fed from China, of people waving their phones at booths, desperate to show they have a ‘green code’ so they are allowed to jump, when told how high.

Some of us knew though they would try and control everything through travel, and that is coming to pass. Air travel being made difficult and they will try and introduce more delays and problems. Personal travel seems to be high on the list of attack now, screwing over fuel prices, making owning a car harder, with the view to eventually just stop you owning a car. The articles on that have now begun, suggesting it’s private car ownership that is now causing global climate issues – yet they have various modes of transport as we know in their rich club, so this is another ruse to get us to jump through their hoops, and leave us stranded, literally. No fuel and cars, no free people movement. If you live far away from your family and like to visit them, I would have a rethink about where you need to be in the future, just in case things start shutting themselves off, like entire countries. The way they are splitting and crashing economies seems like we are being moved into position for a corporate raid. We’ll see if we can work around their insanity or out manoeuvre them when it comes to the crunch. It seems as if the wheels aren’t as firmly on as they thought, or the rogue element is more disruptive than predicted, there’s a strange journey ahead, we’d do best to buckle up as they say…

(c) K Wicks

Sim City

There is a growing consensus that the simulation hypothesis may not be as far-fetched as once some may have thought. The way being paved for this through various films and ideas and as we gather more information about the apparent world around us and the construct upon which we base our ‘reality’. So, in my usual way, I shall use a list of films to illustrate how reality can and is determined by what’s around you. And by changing or simulating a different environment, can thereby change your reality and perceptions towards it.

The Matrix – so far this film is kind of heralded as the top spot for simulation theory played out in visual terms. It’s easy to understand, requires very little thought and appears to cover all bases. It’s too slick but a good starting point to get familiar with the idea.

Dark City – for me this film covers all bases and is neatly complex, it’s got psychological, physical, mental, metaphysical aspects and more.

Logans Run – This is a strange film, and has all sorts of overtones and undertones. But their reality is dictated and controlled and is no longer questioned.

Ready player one – an entertaining and fun look at the idea of a metaverse where it caters to your every want. Unless your want is to be able to fit in to normal life. It’s about finding out who you are by thinking you need to be someone else. Done in the classic Spielberg 80’s style, which I can’t fault.

Free guy – a recent film and goes even further into the computer programs running in the simulation touched upon in matrix. The replication of agent Smith, the fear of deletion by others. But this takes it further and goes with AI becoming sentient. An awareness of the system and programming develops leading to an evolution of thought. It’s a fun film though too and I recommend it. Easy viewing with lots of thinking material.

The Truman Show – a simulation of reality to convince one person it is. Meant to be portrayed as a reality TV show, but it’s a pretend sheltered fabricated existence. Until the party subject to the manipulation and lies snaps and realises all is not what it seems.

Star Trek – Next Generation – Many episodes involving the holodeck and varying degrees of simulated reality, but episode 138 of the series is very interesting.

Updated: realised I forgot two that should be in this list. Tron and lawnmower man. Both of those where people become part of the program.

Also, popular now as well as ‘reality tv’ are games simulating things. The Sims being aptly named and encourages people to build their ideal setting and characters. Tying into the metaverse possibly as an end game, who knows.

So, where does the simulation end and reality begin? Or once you believe the simulation is real, does that make it real? Are they just perceptions or absolutes? That will remain to be seen.

(c) K Wicks

Life has now taken… (poetry)

Life has now taken

A rather odd twist

A darkness that’s spreading

And one to Resist

The fabric of humans

Is under attack

Something’s now changed

There’s no going back

A new way is coming

Who knows where it ends

A need to stop wrongs

To then make amends

Before they take over

And mean we are spent

They want full control

In their plan to augment

And take what we are

To make something new

Discarding the old

And trying to screw

What has come before

And to make you forget

Accepting instead

Their buckled reset

But now is the time

With new eyes to see

And to think of a world

Where folks can be free

~

Don’t let it become a myth

(c) K Wicks

Face Of A Clown, In Story Town

You may have guessed what the overall theme of this is by the title, if not, you will. Clowns have never sat well with me, and is the case for many I have learnt along the way. There may be various reasons for this, as the list of references below may reveal. But there is a crossover for me, into pantomime dames and other garish forms of ‘entertainment’ which use an overly exaggerated version of something, often in a stereotypical way, for you know, entertainment. But I have never found the representation of a ‘woman’ in these situations to ever be appealing or even funny. I cringe at panto stuff, but understand because of times past that apparently men were cast in the female roles for those things because women weren’t allowed on stage. Don’t get me wrong, when done correctly, men in drag or as dames can be hilarious and very on point. Some of my favourites being Monty Python, Kenny Everett and Lily Savage. So I decided it must be something else I am not enjoying about it, something not as obvious and which wasn’t funny.

The recent story time debacle going on has made me think about it and what it is that I personally don’t like or find comfortable about it, to revisit the theme as it seems remarkably similar in the way it is being presented. Just a bit of fun for kids. Firstly, I personally see no reason why you would need to dress up for story time, unless the outfit was appropriate to the story – i.e., Princess story = princess dress, dragon story, dragon outfit, relative to the activity and wouldn’t it be more fun to have the children also engage in dress up, after all, they enjoy it the most don’t they? Children can be very easily distracted and if they have something visual to look at kind of demanding their attention, then how much of the story is really going in anyway? But recently as the stories are being reported more and people protest to them taking place, I can’t help thinking the outfits and make-up of these ‘performers’ are really quite terrifying. I have been watching horror movies since I was a child, I know disturbing. Rather demonic and overwhelming on the senses in my opinion, and to a child who may take that imagery home with them, mull it over and give it lots of thought without any real context or understanding is a potential concern. To me anyway. Maybe not so much to others.

The reason I have an issue with garish presentation specifically being aimed at cashing in on children’s love of bright, sparkly, shiny colourful things, is because it’s been used before for nefarious purposes.

John Wayne Gacey – He was a serial killer in the 70’s who killed lots of young men. And one of his side hobbies was being part of a clown club, which gained him the name killer clown, but he didn’t kill as a clown. Interesting though is what he had said about why he enjoyed being a clown “acting as a clown allowed him to regress into childhood”. That is why it’s on this list.

IT – We should all know this clown Pennywise, either the original (to which I refer), or the remake, or the book. An awful and very scary depiction of a clown in full demonic mode. Enticing a child with a red balloon. Honestly, I thought about little Georgie for a long time after that.

McDonalds – Yes, the fast-food chain. Who’s main advertising tool was a clown, weird really for food. And food that has turned out to not be the healthiest, a slight leap from serial killers to bad nutrition, but neither are in the future interests of the child. Gratification and profit seem to be heading of the wheels of these machines.

Child catcher (chitty chitty bank bang) – Need I say more? Possibly not, but I will. Lollipops and music, to lure the children into the cage.

Hansel & Gretel – a gingerbread house and sweets to lure them in.

Pied Piper of Hamlin – music and dance to get the children to follow and be led to their abduction.

The last two may be Fairy Tales, but I believe there is always a thread of truth running through them too, as with movies and stories that remain with us. All of these things highlight a child’s tendency (and some adults too), to have their attention taken with something that seems bright and bouncy, but without knowing what is really going on. I don’t fully understand the need to expose school age children from nursery to secondary school to drag acts. I have read an account of a private school in the states that had a drag act sprung on them in church service. Heels and sequins parading up and down the aisle, for what purpose I cannot imagine. Why is it that we have a niche part of the adult entertainment industry suddenly being inserted into educational environments, religion and everyday society and events? It’s baffling to me.

What is also baffling, is how women have been slagged off and vilified for years for wearing heavy makeup, and what some consider to be inappropriate clothing but now it’s men doing it, that’s fine and we just clap and say well done. I really don’t get it. She’s a slapper or a prostitute for wearing that, but he’s a hero. Am I the only one thinking WTAF is going on here, are we actually in the Twilight Zone? Maybe it is just me that sees the overdoing of the outfits and makeup as a cover for something, whether they are hiding from themselves or something darker, that remains to be seen, but having to outwardly express yourself in such a garish manner, means you are compensating for something in my view. Why aren’t you comfortable as you? Why the extra razzle and dazzle? I just see painted faces and outfits pretending to be something, rather than it being an expression of self. I think I must be missing their whole point. How can you ever be you, if you are trying to be something or someone else?

(c) K Wicks