A reading of my article Nineteen Eight-Four Ever
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A Game? I Think Not…
You may have seen the Venn diagram of multiple films overlaying to create our current situation. Ones like 1984, Brave New World, Handmaiden’s Tale, Animal Farm, Soylent Green, V for Vendetta, etc.
To me though, it feels like going through a series of games – as well as a long drawn out version of all of the above. Now, there are films which sound fitting within games too, like Maze Runner, Running Man, Hunger Games and similar. But for this I mean board games, and ones we were provided with throughout our childhoods, so I presume is another form of conditioning. And hopefully most of these games, if not all, are familiar to people.
Cluedo – that mystery of murder, trying to work out who did it, where and with what implement. Honing skills of observation and what you think is fact, proving that people can get it very wrong, but are willing to ‘stake the game on it’ when they call it out.
Mousetrap – of pitfalls and traps, not wanting to get caught, but inevitably you do. Like the hold your nerve games, like Kerplunk, Buckaroo and Operation. It can be done, but you have to develop steely nerves and a steady hand.
Snakes and Ladders – a classic of ups and downs, literally. But can be likened to what we would call the game of life I suspect. Convincing people that it’s the luck of the throw that determines if it’s a ladder you will climb, or a snake you will fall prey to and fall. Steps to Heaven, and a serpent to take you down. And in real life, it almost seems as if it is on the throw of a dice, luck and chance steering the outcome. But we know these days that it isn’t always like that, because sometimes the dice are loaded, or after your throw and number of steps is revealed, what once may have been a ladder, suddenly gets planning permission to become a snake by the time you ‘land on it’ – so it’s not an even match of chance at all.
Monopoly – this one seems obvious as a tool of conditioning, and to be honest it did then too, but in a naive way, you think it’s to help you. And in a way it is, but it’s to help you help them. Not the same.
Battleships – into the realm of strategy rather than chance, but with way more of a war overtone than things like chess. Where you get a small fleeting feeling of glee at the idea of destroying their tiny little plastic ship. I guess the computer games we have had for some time now of war and such, have done a great deal of programming as they were meant to. Catching the ones who care not for the strategy of it, but rather just the thrill or the other aspects of warfare.
Risk – an interesting game of patience and strategy, with a long-term overview of taking great swathes of land and crushing borders, replacing people’s troops with your own. Need I say more?
And there will be many other games which were allowed to be provided to the masses, to keep them occupied and ‘entertained’, but clearly all of the mainstream things have been very carefully placed for decades. To very carefully prime people for requirement, and to give people the ‘knowledge’ you want them to have, keeping them always on the back foot, like playing Cluedo with only half the characters available, or you don’t have all the locations. And still thinking you can solve it. I keep thinking it all seems like a rather large jigsaw puzzle, let’s say it’s 1,000 pieces. You are given 15 pieces to start with, and a few hundred have been destroyed, some have been hidden well beyond sight, some have been duplicated, some have been replaced with dummy false pieces, and so on. And you are then expecting to be able to solve that puzzle eventually, and keep trying until it drives you into madness. Or, you decide that it is so ridiculous, that whoever changed and moved all those pieces has completely ruined it, so why would you bother to continue to try? You wouldn’t in reality, you’d decide the person wasn’t worth engaging with anymore, throw out the old pieces, and start afresh with a new one…
(c) K Wicks
A Treaty of Control
One to rule them all. It doesn’t ever go well, the struggle for power or what occurs after it is gained. Even in the mythical settings of monsters, evil and magic, something or someone requires ultimate power over everyone. But instead of a ring, a sword, a crystal or whatever item they portray in the stories – this one is a piece of paper. Bit more along the lines of what we are used to, declarations, agreements, alliances and treaties. And that is the one being used for this power play, and although real, is also mythical. Because that ‘piece of paper’ isn’t magic, it’s just paper – and sometimes is put into motion with only a handshake or verbal agreement which starts the hypnotising process. Yet it commands an unreal hold over people, for no good reason it would seem. Signed into agreements, contracts, certificates and binding words as you would with a spell, yet the Witches and Wizards of today are not burnt at the stake as we are led to believe they once would have been. See my article – A Witch, How Convenient for an angle on that.
This particular agreement being discussed by people who shouldn’t be in in charge of holding a pencil, let alone the health of the world, in the pandemic treaty. My brief article – One treaty to bind them all, touched upon it, but now it seems to be trying to move into the next phase, although not going entirely well. Not all are on board, and the countries that are ignore the current mood, information, statistics and reality to press ahead with a failing plan. But one which seems to have so much invested in it, of now and the future, that they will not let it go. Because it leads in nicely to their overall plan of having a Ministry of Monitoring, centralised over people’s health and being wielded as a system of control thereafter.
And while they make these moves towards extra surveillance of your most personal being throughout your life from that ‘cradle to grave’ they covet so much, obstacles are placed and routes of escape are minimised to ‘catch the prey’. Destabilising countries and economies, causing untold stress and issues for people in their lives when it comes to being able to afford to live and get by. Completely deliberately of course, because they don’t want people being able to support themselves or look after themselves, and the worst thing people could possibly do is get along. Division has been a handy tool for the longest time, and is nurtured, more so recently and seems to be getting worse. Networks and communities are the opposite of what is required going forward, as is self-sustainability, so anyone in those arenas seems to under even bigger attack. I always liked this line from Luna in Harry Potter “Well if I were You-Know-Who, I’d want you to feel cut off from everyone else; because if it’s just you alone, you’re not as much of a threat.” And one can’t help but notice in certain places, there is something mobilising and it seems on both sides, setting the scene for whatever showdown is set for this year, and the many strange years yet to come…
(c) K Wicks
Competing For Top Spot – article reading
The World’s A Stage, Or A Fair – article reading
Islands
“You want to go to the island.”
The catchy conditioning line used in the film The Island (2005). Making people think there is somewhere better to go and there is a purpose to your being and existence. Replace the island with heaven and I started to see a similarity. Of repeated conditioning of existence, to think after is better than here. And while you are focusing on better there, you perhaps forget or lose sight of trying to make where you are now better.
But back to islands for a moment, because it was actually another that started this thought. It’s from another film, but a certain real island (as far as we know) will tie in, because it’s the film Castaway that came to mind. Of Wilson and the bloody handprint which gets linked to a conspiracy. But that particular premise surrounding that ball often gets mentioned as well as the actor. It’s the location now that takes my thought, a tropical island. Like the one currently linked to a certain news story that rumbles on. The delivery company and packages could also merely be coincidence too. Seeing patterns where we want to and all that.
But the next thought was cows, I know, seems a leap. But as in the first film mentioned, they were being cloned as replacement body parts, treated well until the point of necessity. Just as people will treat prize cows or bulls, or any animal that is bred for what might be considered a ‘superior purpose’, even if that purpose is ultimately food, or body parts. That film My Sisters Keeper I believe is about a ‘spare child’ being born to provide body parts for the first sick child. Scale that idea up I guess. And we end up coming back to a previously discussed idea in Perhaps, of those Warehouses for the Living Dead where people would be neomorts, existing as ‘living cadavers’ waiting to be needed.
Pleasure Island – Pinocchio. I have already mentioned this one too in my article Being Real, of how it was used to entice children into servitude with promises and temptation of fun and vices. But There Is A Price to pay. As it would seem there was for anyone who may have been invited to certain islands, where it seemed it was all fun and games with no repercussions or penalty. But afterwards it is used as a weapon to buy your servitude, turning well-known people into donkey’s, just as they did in the film to the eager and weak-minded youngsters, except they still looked like people and no-one noticed at first. But with strings now attached, having to perform their part, being pulled and played as required, with the direst consequences it turns out…
(c) K Wicks
How It Looks From The Inside – article reading
Diversity, or Tomfoolery?
The strange landscape of ‘Diversity’ continues its buckled march into and through society. Facilitated by illogical people who appear somewhat brainwashed or that we have, in fact, been taken over by invasion of the body snatchers already.
But other than the ridiculous idea of quotas based on fairness, inclusion and equally based on sex and skin colour, it seems a rather dangerous angle emerges. As many thought would when you put someone in a job or a position of power who isn’t capable. And there are many reasons for being not being capable in a certain field, and it’s not always one that a simple bit of training can overcome.
And there is the other thing that doesn’t seem to get discussed much, of people not actually wanting those roles. For example, years ago now they started harping on about not enough women CEOs in large corporations. Trying to say they were sexist, and indeed there is an air of sexism to certain industries, and the structural hierarchy, most of them in fact. But I also looked at the whole picture, of all the women I had ever worked with or met, how many even wanted to be a CEO? Or upper management at any level? It was made quite clear to women years ago, if you go for career, your family suffers. If you can get that far because having a family sort of goes against you as a female. Thinking you’ll need time off for maternity, for the kids, won’t be focused etc. However, for men, it seems to work the other way, as if you are a man with a family and a mortgage, you are easier to control perhaps. To tie into their corporate fold, knowing you really do rely on that pay packet more than a single man might. So, exclusions and ideals of lifestyle have always played a part to a point, on both sides. And one could argue that all of that is put in place by men, so women have felt a need to stay out of it as much as possible, because you are in a no-win situation.
And within than, now they are making it even harder to get a fair shot based on skill and ability after touting that as the only route to success or recognition in your field. Back in the day it was more who you know, not what you know. And people can’t deny that many have been kept out of certain industries and positions due to their sex or ethnicity. Now it’s more what you look like rather than anything else, as though everything is meant to be shallow and based on appearances only – including complex and important roles that can have a grave consequence. As if your external shell represents everything about you to be worn as an outfit.
How disheartening for people who have worked hard to try and make something of themselves, to see others fast-tracked because they happen to be the pawn of the month. Imagine if someone putting on a doctor’s uniform suddenly allowed them to perform surgery, or putting on a pilot uniform meant you could now attempt to fly the plane. And people would be called ignorant, or accused of hatred if they tried to say anything. Blind pilots is the next weird thing being joked about today, and it may sound like a joke, but with quotas of disability taking the helm this week, it seems to have actually been discussed. Terrifying. But not unusual for where we are at. Setting everyone up to fail, and exploiting people’s vulnerabilities and psychological desires to be played out in a very public arena to achieve that…
(c) K Wicks
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