Not just tall, but towering. There seems to be a need to build extremely tall buildings, but not of a completely logical nature. Unless there is of course something of great value to hide or protect, or you are looking to protect yourself from something, as is said of some of the structures noted below. We have skyscrapers today, so it doesn’t seem to so unusual to our eyes to have massive buildings in cities, not so much in the rural areas though. They would stand out more, just as these remnants of the past do in these modern times.

China – where there are many towers throughout the region of the lower Himalayan mountains, some of them square, some star shaped, but all very tall and looking like a remnant of something industrious. Maybe small components of an old system, like speculated about Star Forts. But it’s said they are ancient from around 200 AD onwards, probably for storage they say and as we do have very large silos today for similar, it doesn’t seem a completely unreasonable explanation at all.

Bologna – the whole city was towers for hundreds of years, with only two towers remaining today. It’s said they were for defensive purposes, but with them taking up to ten years to build each one, and with no real threat put forward as warranting that type of defence, I’m not so sure. But for whatever reason, we like tall and towering structures, in great numbers in some cases.

Water towers and folly’s – there are many dotted throughout England and quite probably Europe and other places too. Mentioned in my article – With Purpose, Or Just Folly?

The Tower of Babel – a famous and disputed tower that was the culmination of one language and a want to break into heaven it is said. with a round tower being built to facilitate this. Although the site of Babylonia is known, and there are ruins of a vast city which are mostly still hidden from view, the small area allocated as the tower doesn’t quite fit. But strangely, there are three circular areas around the city, with spiral designs, and two of then having a very angled edge with one facing water as in the below painting by someone who never visited the site they say. It’s a tantalising myth, and with ruins of a city visible but still have covered and lost to time, who can say for sure.

(c) K Wicks

Do we see patterns where there aren’t any? People like to say that we have a tendency to see things even when they aren’t there. It’s been named as pareidolia which in itself is a type of Apophenia, which covers things like seeing shapes in clouds or finding the face of Jesus in a piece of toast. And as someone who likes real patterns as well as actual mysteries and theories, it seems an interesting one to look at.

Especially as I have seen a few things that I ask myself whether they are what my brain ‘sees’ or, in fact, has it employed that mechanism to show me what it thinks I want to see. Keeping in mind, your brain doesn’t see anything itself, it just takes in the imagery before you and then does its thing, whether we are aware of it or not. Below are some images from google earth, of the Grand Canyon in America. With street view you can make your way down the canyon from the comfort of a screen, stopping and zooming in where you would like and taking in the geology as you go. And this is where things stand out from others sometimes, or it catches the eye as one might say as being unusual or slightly out of place. As did the below images to me. And it’s down to each person I guess to decide what they are seeing, or not seeing as well may be the case.

And there are many who claim to see what is there, not what is imagined, so who really knows what we see and how we interpret that. Just as mentioned in A Giant Debate, Devils Tower is debated to be the remnants of a huge tree stump by some people, and others say its volcanic and is just a rock formation which appears to be stump like because of its position in the landscape.

So, is it just our minds playing tricks on us as they might say? Or are we making sense of what we see and our brain will naturally give it an overhaul and use our mental reference library to find a familiar shape or idea to liken it to? Working out its place in the picture before us, just as we try to with ourselves and society. And it may just be a tantalising idea, that there were vast and advanced mega cities and civilisations before us, huge buildings, plants and animals interacting very differently from what we see in this time. Or that there might indeed be some of that still around today, either the final pieces of it left to rot and eventually be hidden by the ages or by information, or just perhaps some of it really does still remain and is just hidden away from us. Places like Shangri-La, Atlantis and El Dorado, the city of gold, do of course make for a good story which seems to last, but I can’t help thinking, what if…

(c) MKW Publishing

Working together but screwing each other over all the time. It wouldn’t work would it? And that’s where we seem to be in society, with it starting small here and there, between businesses and departments, overspilling into general daily life. Competing for your crumbs against everyone else. I have written a few articles already on the swirling pot of greed – Monopoly, Who’s That Trip Trapping On My Bridge and Making Money From Misery, about how people have been groomed to accept and be part of that machine.

Part of a collective, but pitted against each other and ultimately trying to turn people against themselves, which in some cases appears to be working. Creating division under the guise of diversity, leading to homogeny. All be different so you can be the same. But even within what we call the collective society, we should and at least used to understand that people are not all the same, do not have the same ideals or wants. An even ground often has to be agreed or decided, to find a balance in the interest of sanity, safety and the overall functionality of society. And currently, the ground is very uneven and creating quite the bumpy footing for people to try and find stability.

But everything seems split and against itself, the politicians that retain their grip on society is a classic example of something that is supposed to function as a whole, but is split into many different parts which are always at odds with itself. Almost strange that it was ever expected to function adequately as a proper business model, yet it did, under the guise of democracy for a time. Now we see it has been a different story altogether, of syphoning retirement plans and finances for themselves from your standard of living now. Making sure you have a basic and shortened existence, so they can line their own bed for later, while living well now on that ‘democracy’. As we have seen of late, the money being spent on everything but the good of the people of this country is eye-watering, while they keep taking ever more. It’s a strange bind to be in, because clearly many people just want to get on, and keep going in the hope that maybe something will give, or that reason and maturity will return to the facade that is politics.

So, we see that while they said we are all in this together, it would appear not. Many do not and will not have to suffer the consequences of their actions, or any repercussions at all, only getting to see the fall-out from their comfy front row seat, that they made sure to have. And just like the scientists in The Beautiful Mice, they believe they know how they experiment will run its course, as it is meant to. But what they don’t tell you or show you, is in the live version out in the uncontrolled environment, is that the scientists, or professor or politicians usually get swallowed up and eaten alive by their creation or idea. And that’s when people shake their head and say, well, it all started with good intentions…

(c) K Wicks