I’m going to talk about banks. The financial world and economy are dominated by them. The portfolios they wield are eye-watering. But the premise of what they are, and what they used to offer, versus what they have morphed into is becoming clearer as time goes on.
Imagine you have a piggy bank. And you put your coins into it ‘for safe keeping’ or for ‘a rainy day’. Funny they picked a pig to hold your money isn’t it, greedy as a pig, as Bricktop would say. But you have your money in your piggy bank, and you put it to one side. When needed, you take the money out, use it, start over. Really easy, and will be why banks worked to start with.
But, let’s now imagine when you go to get some, your little piggy won’t pay up, unless you pay a fee. And the time after that, you have to pay a fee, and can’t get all the money out. Next time, fee, restricted amount, and the piggy bank has moved somewhere else, so it takes you a while to find it. Next time, piggy says you made too much, and so on. Not being funny, but you would stop using that piggy bank, thinking it had lost control of itself and was just meant to be a helping hand to manage your money. But instead, you will no longer be allowed to manage your money, because they either don’t want you having any in the capacity we once knew it, or they want to dictate it, fully.
Now, let’s take piggy further, who starts working with your employer, and the tax office and all other authorities. Your piggy bank is no longer even in your house, and gets looked at by whoever thinks it necessary. And piggy keeps taking his cut, every time you put money in, and charges a fee to the person you buy from every time you buy something. Following you in presence while you spend, then one day you go to buy something piggy doesn’t like. No. Transaction blocked. Like a controlling parent or partner, piggy takes over all your finances, decides you aren’t competent anymore…
Or something like that. But maybe it helps to imagine for some, that the little cute money saver that started as a small help, has grown into a giant pig bursting at the seems, growing in size constantly ready to explode and take people’s ‘rainy days’ with it. Just saying sorry, I dropped it all somewhere and no there isn’t any. Or not even saying sorry, just explaining how and why, with no real accountability, just more people getting rich of other people’s hard work. It’s a perfect trap.
It’s stirred some to speak out, they’ve had enough. Of the recent hoo-ha? No, not of that. But of the bright idea from the ‘numbers man’ to get everyone to stay in school until 18 to do maths apparently. So, I’m going to put my two pence worth forward. I also work in finance for various industries, but have also worked in a range of other jobs before finding my career path. In a time when we have jobs disappearing with the closure of businesses left, right and centre, and they talk of robots taking over our future, you would think it might be prudent to have a conversation about where it is all going and what jobs there might be for people to train for. Or is it that they will require lots of coders in the future, and they will adjust the ‘maths’ program to incorporate computers and binary, so won’t be maths as we knew it. Because if it was, then the consensus seems pretty clear, it is not a useful subject by any means at further level, and will bore some people out of their mind. And that was said by someone who loved maths (I have a friend who is a maths teacher, so know some people do love it), but for some, it is not a natural process to be able to deal with and organise numbers and work with them. They are better with words, or art, or practical subjects. And mostly to be fair, you can either pick up or be taught along the way if you have a decent brain and someone takes the time to show you, at any point in your life. You don’t stop learning just because you leave school, and many realise how much they didn’t learn by being at school. Being bright, and being ‘intelligent’ by someone else’s scale are two very different things.
Maybe it’s just they don’t know what to do with 16-18-year-olds, so they want to tie them up in compulsory education, at a time when they would more inclined to find themselves and where they might fit in the adult world they are becoming part of. Because regardless of whether you might choose to identify as a child, or a young person, who are required to take part in the adult world once you reach a certain age. I wonder if we will start to see children identifying as older people, claiming to be a 30-year-old trapped in a 10-year-old body? I’m sure the pedo elite would love that, given the recent statements filtering onto the internet about how it’s becoming an acceptable attitude. So seems even stranger that children of a certain age, i.e. 4 year olds in Scotland for example, are allowed to change their gender, or idea of it on paper for now, but don’t have any say in what they are taught? Grown up life Decisions allowed there, but not apparently when you are nearly grown up? Old enough to vote at 16 they say, but not old enough to leave school at the same age? It’s an odd series of blurred lines creeping in, another good way to separate generations of people, who may only be 10 years apart, but they end growing up in a completely different educational climate, with different rules. Makes for an isolating experience perhaps from those older than you, and then they will do it again to the next younger generation after that. My article A lost generation touched on that idea a bit. But we have had a varying age of consent in this country, as have others, and as we are told, children didn’t go to school previously and mostly were made to work. So was it ever about education, or merely a tool to remove a big part of the ‘workforce’ and a growing up process that many went through. I am not a fan of child labour by any means, but was a child who wanted to work and contribute in some way. Didn’t want to have pocket money, I wanted a job. Now, that could just be because I wasn’t actually given pocket money, I had to earn it, my mum used to trade me, a clean bathroom got £1 and sometimes she would let me clean the whole house for £5 when I got to be a young teenager. Enterprising on her part, no? But I was also the sandwich maker, the tea maker, and generally the helpful one. Working out years later why my sister appeared to make a crap cup of tea when living at home, but seemed to actually make quite a good one once away from home. For all my observation skills, I missed a trick there and took pride in what I did, and wanted it to be good, even if it meant I got saddled with the job thereafter. Until you put your foot down of course, but when you are young, you don’t always know when to, and if it means stamping on someone else’s want, be prepared for the fallout.
But back to the two years of maths, a strange thing to focus on when we apparently have all sorts of jobs and skills shortages, needing manual workers, hospitality staff, healthcare staff, doctors, teachers etc. Where the pay isn’t up to scratch many say, so not necessarily a shortage of the skills, but a shortage of willing to pay for them? And what will the extra numeracy achieve in this quest for re-education of that 8 million adults who are said to have the numeracy skills of a child our numbers man mentions? How will it help them? Another odd thing to say was “statistics underpin every job”. Not sure I follow on that, unless you are measuring something in percentages for the purpose of analysis, to create statistics for something, they don’t just appear. Stats don’t underpin jobs in my opinion, skills, requirement, supply and demand does surely? Whatever the real reason for coming out with this ‘plan’, it is as full of holes as all the others, but does beg the question. Where exactly is this going? Do they just want to demoralise each generation in unique ways, and then continue to hold them down thereafter? Hoping that the continued parading of ineptitude will just wear people down and make them give up or accept the inanity. In fact, it seems that is indeed what has happened, but over the last number of decades, and we just didn’t quite notice. But now there is so much public coverage of things and instant news at everyone’s fingertips, it’s all out there for everyone to see and the childish, egotistical and unprofessional behaviour of so many is quite disturbing. But these days, it seems as though there is a lot of disturbing to go around…
I hadn’t given this much thought at all to be honest, only to review the memory I had of when it went weird in the Theme Park and they all turned into donkeys. As a child it didn’t seem weird that there were nefarious characters luring children with fun, promises and sweets, but there is a dark twist. I read fairy tales, watched Oliver Twist, and knew about child labour (all from a very Victorian perspective, of course). But the subject has come up now and again in conversations, about how it’s all there to give you a warning, or a heads up that is what is around you.
But while writing my previous article, A train of thought, I had a deviation while entertaining a side thought, which funnily enough I did not pursue, but it led me to this one. While thinking of islands as hubs of ‘movement’, like Ellis Island, and Coney Island, even the UK, i thought of the island in Pinocchio, Pleasure Island. Turns out it has various names, and in the original story it was called the Land of Toys, being a place
“That is disguised as a haven of freedom and anarchy for boys and occasionally girls, but is eventually discovered to be far more sinister.“
Tricked with promises of freedom and fun, with games and vices galore. And that sinister purpose? Well, to turn them into Donkeys, it would seem to be sold. I lingered on that, wondering on it. Donkeys. It is said, “In Italian culture, the donkey is symbolic of ignorance, stupidity, goofiness and labor”. Which is odd to me as I thought they were hardworking, loyal and friendly, but what do I know. In the ancient Greek ideals however, they were seen as stupid still, and stubborn (as a mule I guess), but also as servile, and used them to represent the lower classes. So, if we now look at it that way, that they were luring young children away to a place where they could infect them with this disease called ‘donkey fever’, turning them into docile slaves, to them be sold off to other towns and cities. Seems a bit different in my mind, and a strange parallel to other stories, like the orphan trains maybe, or the pied piper. They say the film was to try and teach loyalty, and morals, but looks like a much darker reveal when viewed differently. More about a method perhaps, and showing how they transformed some into the perfect drone slaves, in two ways. Firstly, by what they showed as their way to do it on large numbers, and secondly by convincing children of a moral standard introduced by very unsavoury characters in the real world, on an individual level to the child watching it. They lure children in with films, and program the moral code they would like to see. Think of all the sitcoms, and family series they had at one time, absolutely packed full of life events, and dilemmas, and morals.
Also, I wonder if him being wooden and different, constantly on a quest to be ‘real’ is another reveal. Of having to adapt to be part of their world and always try and keep up and fit it, to be ‘real’ by their standard, not ours. Not sure, bit of another side thought there. But he has a ‘creator’ and a ‘parental figure’ that he has to keep happy too, showing you will succumb to the perils of corruption if you aren’t wholesome and doing as you are told. Because the thing is, they can’t destabilise what you are and how you think, unless they knew those two things about you. So, is it just possible that so many people are so malleable because they have been created through generations. And when you stand so firmly by your beliefs, against a new breed of ideals, you have to ask, where did those beliefs come from in the first place? Were they yours from deep down? Or where they steered in that direction by way of clever tactics, marketing, education and timing. It may well be that as people, we have already been thoroughly corrupted, and there is no longer an original to understand what we were meant to be like. Only the version we have now become after a long time of tampering and manipulation. Well see where that ends up, but like Pinocchio, it seems that people are being treated like little wooden puppets, that couldn’t possibly understand anything, and are there for the entertainment of others. On a quest to be accepted by their standard, and elevated to ‘human’ status, but coming to realise they actually see you as walking firewood, and are ready to throw you on the bonfire at any moment…
I watched a very strange YouTube vid yesterday called repopulation postcards, showcasing a set of postcards from late 1800’s and early 1900’s, with superimposed effects but an odd theme. Babies being harvested I guess is the best way to put it, sort of showing that they have been grown in cabbage patches, or scooped out of the water with buckets, or floated on small boats. I’ll link the vid at the bottom so you can see for yourself, but it made me think of a few things (as does happen).
Cabbage patch dolls (they are mentioned in the vid) and hearing some people were told they came from a cabbage patch. I just thought it was a funny thing to say when you didn’t want to answer the question ‘where do babies come from’, and it could well be. But when the vid explained a little more into the history of those dolls and idea, it gets a bit weird, and there is a lawsuit. In the 80’s some guy ‘invented’ the dolls, sold them, became a millionaire. Turns out, he stole the idea, and made millions. More on that here – Cabbage Patch Scandal
When you read how huge the whole thing was in the 1980’s it has all the hallmarks of a created fad, as all of them were, but my article on The first fad goes into that a little more if interested in the marketing side of it to whip up a frenzy in people.
But the whole back story they created for this fad is a weird one, although quite a delightful little adventure on the face of it, of a daydreaming boy in the mountains in Georgia USA, whose attention is caught by a rabbit/bee hybrid. He follows it into a cave. (No parallels at all there to Alice in Wonderland hey? Although I believe that is a cover story too). They come out into another place, where there happens to be lots of babies and small children being grown in cabbage patches by way of a magic crystal power sprinkled on them, and they expect to have homes found for them. I know, like I said, weird. Here’s the full short story if you are interested – The legend of the Cabbage Patch. But a few things sprung to mind from that, firstly was the crystal cave found in Mexico, probably not relevant but thought of anyway. Secondly was just word association, I suddenly thought of the Caucasus Mountains, as it’s rumoured that ‘Caucasians’ came out of those mountains. But they aren’t in USA I thought, but turns out they are in Georgia, on the border of Europe and Asia. Again, maybe nothing. Another little thought was also of those two green children being found in Cornwall apparently hundreds of years ago, said to have emerged from a cave.
Growing babies – There has also been talk of growing babies recently, trying to get people to imagine a life from conception to birth with no ‘interference’ from the ‘carrier’. Meaning they can be monitored and their development tinkered with along the way. My article Pod life goes into that briefly, but I suggest you read Brave New World if you haven’t, for an extra idea of what they might hope to do.
Back to the previous possible ‘growth phase’ though, with lots of representations on those postcards of water, buckets, and like they are being shipped somewhere. Made me think of that age old story of Moses being placed in reeds and floating down the Nile. Not unlike another storyline of a recent film, Willow. An evil ruler, death to a new born who can bring them down, baby put on water to float in reeds… a great film, but not a new story, obviously.
Orphan trains / asylums / Incubators – A rather odd and in my mind, dark part of known and documented history, but is out of place for anything normal. Unless things aren’t as they say, of course. I mention it briefly in my article Just passing through, but will put the important info here again –
“The Orphan Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that transported children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster homes located largely in rural areas of the Midwest. The orphan trains operated between 1854 and 1929, relocating about 200,000 children.”
Why really would they just ship children away from the Eastern cities, to foster parents in in the Midwest, really? And the parents just happily handed their kids over to be sent somewhere to ease ‘overcrowding’. In the real world, you would expect families to relocate, together if there was so much space and resources that families could take on extra children and feed them, school them etc. Or maybe that’s why so many asylums were needed around that time too, maybe that’s where the parents got taken so the children could be shipped off? So many questions on that. But a convenient cover for why you might have had train loads of children being moved around. Did they have families at all, or were they to be part of the ‘new breed’, populating towns and cities all over with a story of fostering, or of being orphaned, knowing no different themselves. And the incubator babies also mentioned in the vid and I have heard about before, could also be a way to get babies being bred somewhere else into plain view, and into the system. They say it came about because they needed to up the birth rate in France as it was in decline due to there being the Franco-Prussian war and a famine between 1870-1871. Sounds like a big declaration, based on only a couple of years but maybe there’s more to it. Either way, a Frenchman had an idea based on keeping poultry warm, asked the local hospital to borrow a couple of premature babies so he could take them to a circus and show off his invention. They said yes…and the rest is history as they say, with him ending up as a display in would you believe it, Coney Island. Where you would have a high volume of people and children passing through I am sure, a first port perhaps before the processing centre of Ellis Island.
But what if you found something, like a cave or tunnel to somewhere else, where they created people in this way, could that have been the original way to spawn people? Like they say in Superman (the new ones), where they are grown for specific purpose, eliminating being able to reproduce naturally. But what if what we know as natural now, wasn’t how it started there – what if it was ordered and each one grown to specification, but maybe they redesigned it, us, to be able to self-reproduce – to save the species. And what if after being saved and going the natural way for a certain amount of time, some people decided to reverse that. To undo the process of self-replication, and go back to the use of a cloning process. Maybe that is why we were made in someone’s image, possibly it’s meant literally. Who can say for sure, and it may sound ridiculous but I suspect I will be giving this more thought…
I have already written about the idea of us being manipulated and turned into something else in Changing into what exactly?, but I shall do another one here further to a comment I have read on Twitter, and makes sense for a theory I already had on the go.
“You asked why they are not just killing us… What they intend for us is far worse than death. Humans are the host to spawn this new artificial intelligence species.” Karen Kingston (former Pfizer employee and a pharmaceutical and medical device business analyst).
Sounds quite serious, doesn’t it? And is an idea I have been giving serious thought to for a while now. That they are indeed trying to augment something new, by way of writing in a hybrid technology for that human/cyborg combo we might imagine. But don’t think of it as the Borg from Star Trek being half metal and all clunky, although I’m sure they have some of those already hidden away as old projects, or would like to if they haven’t. But this is more along the lines of a system interwoven with your own, so Borg on the inside, but human looking on the outside. And how might this be achieved? Well, I’ll say Wolverine from X-men for a reference point, of the idea to graft adamantium onto the human frame, and they intimate in the marvel film that they had tried and failed many times before they got it to work on him. So, change adamantium to a nano tech substance, which needs to be integrated with a ‘human system’. And although it might kill millions or more, they think it’s a risk, or leap, worth taking. Of course they do, it’s other people’s lives being thrown on the line. But let’s say, that’s that plan, that they keep giving more and more shots to those who have had it, because each time might be a small upgrade, as you would with a computer. Some systems (bodies), won’t be able to handle the rewrites, or the changes, and will start to attack itself, or shut down. They will be written off as failed. But the ones who keep going, maybe they are the ones they really want, as their system may have fully integrated any new technology required.
But along the way, I suspect that the compound is also designed to seek out and replicate what is already there. Giving rise to the huge increase of numbers of all types of fast developing illness, disease and other conditions, so an accelerant of sorts. Possibly stimulating something that was placed there long ago, introduced recently or was perhaps naturally occurring. Just shoving it along the timeline quicker, to get results now. And it is scary to think it could be that meticulously planned and be so premeditated. A very unsettling realisation if in fact true. When you know about the statistic from the polio vaccines ‘accident’ where they gave 20-30 million Americans (and possibly some across Europe), contaminated vaccines, containing SV40, a simian virus that causes cancers and tumors (only in the lab mice apparently, they didn’t admit it for humans, but then again, they weren’t supposed to be testing it on humans, so how would they know?). So, to me, that is a possible clear example of priming the system for later activation, and we now know they had products for the CV19 outbreak patented and packaged well before there was talk of it publicly, so not a surprise outbreak, or a new virus they detected at all. Just a power move, to start in motion a very dark chain of events.
And I can’t help thinking that while they are either looking to improve upon humans, or wipe them out, or just hold us down, who can really say for sure yet. But it seems as though they keep failing with the upgrades so far, trying to integrate software too advanced for the hardware and it leads to malfunction, disorder or shut down. And building from scratch doesn’t include the conscious part they need to have. So maybe while they are busy showing us the ‘face of AI’ with their robots and human mimicry, that is the diversion, while they actually try to create AI within a living host, but way of nanotech, programming, wavelengths and upgrades. So actually, more like the Borg than I had given it credit for…
It’s catchy, isn’t it? Making you think they may reveal something you didn’t know, but the twist is deep down you knew all along. Morpheus really was a great as a character. As they all were, and that film was as iconic as it was meant to be.
But what if I were to tell you that where you think freedom is being fought for, is actually in The Matrix, not outside it as the movie would portray. A construct, meticulously controlled, with agents infiltrating the system and eliminating those not needed. Twitter seems very much like that these days (and possibly other social media but I can’t comment on those), where you ‘plug in’, can be any personality you like, pretend to be cool, or famous, or a victim, or whatever you want. With a constant threat apparently of one’s trying to shut you down, or throw you out of their matrix or ‘take away your voice of opinion’. Weird really. It’s less a social place and more of a strategic enterprise, especially with it being revealed to have meddled in sharing of rather vital information at an incredibly pivotal time. Where the system showed itself to already be firmly intertwined with reality.
Because the social media sites and information gathering tool of the internet, were just an extension of a system already in place. One which has been creating our reality and what we thought were significant events and continues to teach us a version of history we are meant to learn. Programming us to be a certain way, to think a certain way, or to act a certain way. Seems like the wheels are coming off that one a bit in the real world. Cracks appear and the facade doesn’t appear as tidy as it once was. The drugs aren’t strong enough it seems to fully dull the senses anymore and make the steak taste as good as it used to. Well, not to everyone anyway.
But while it may well be ‘we have been down that road before, and we know where it goes’, we have not been down it with new eyes and thought. So, is it the same road as before? And just because you take what appears to be different road, you can still end up in the same place. Going round in laborious circles within the construct, as it adapts and monitors you throughout. Break free from the matrix, so you can have ‘freedom’ within the matrix is how it seems to be painted. Funny really. And as the ‘agents’ control things like infiltrating people, setting agendas, deleting ‘programs’ they don’t like or are now obsolete in their mind, it becomes its own monster. Maybe that’s why Smith went quite mad in the end, the never-ending cycle of bullshit set on a loop. And whether it would be his victory or not, maybe he just wanted it to end. And it did, with the architect carrying on, and it all starting again, as it will time and time again, I’m sure. Because there is always an architect for things like these, someone pulling strings and dropping a stone in the pond every now and again for cause and effect. But that we know, it’s just I can’t help wondering what stone they’re going to drop next, and just what effect they are looking for…
They made a big point about it in the film. If you die in The Matrix, you die in the ‘real world’ because your brain doesn’t recognise the difference. Maybe that’s why death is such a weird thing to us, because we have no reference point for it, you just aren’t here anymore. And that’s the thing, traces of that person are still there, things they owned, people they loved and who loved them (in best cases), a legacy left behind whether it be by way of family, or money or achievement. Some people fear not having any of those things to leave a mark with, leaving nothing to show you were even there. And I’m sure there have been many that fall into that category. But what if it was the other way round. You don’t die, but everything is taken away from you as if you had, your existence is wiped out, while you are still alive? All because the computer says no. I’ll do a film list again as I think it illustrates my point, and where lots of these ‘new systems’ seem to be headed.
Enemy of the State (1998) – a very good example of what happens when you are in the way of something the government is up to, and the lengths they may go to eliminate you, or removed you from being able to function in everyday life. By freezing bank accounts, tapping phone lines, using satellites to monitor and pursue a person. All because they knew something which could incriminate people doing wrong. Put forward as fiction, but you can very easily see the problem when you watch it.
Hackers (1995) – another good example of what can go wrong with technology being wielded by those who have nefarious agendas. But it is tech people who save the day, by using their own tools against them, but the main point for this film, was one thing mentioned in it. As a threat in fact to try and bribe someone, showing that they could digitally alter someone’s image to match a name and details of a criminal, have them arrested, and then change the picture back, so that they are then ‘lost in the system’. It may seem like a small thing, but an awfully important one. If you can’t prove who are because a computer says otherwise, and is treated as more trustworthy than a human (despite being designed and programmed by a human in most cases), then what chance do we have? We have already had the rise of the machines, and were we too lazy to even notice, let alone resist or ‘fight back’?
Eagle Eye (2008) – a national security computer goes rogue and sort of pretends to be a person in order to get people to do things, communicating through telephone, text and email, ordering things and setting up locations and instructions. All very weird, but a good film. But again, as with the next film, highlights how something programmed by a human, and is set with limited parameters will not be to our betterment, in my opinion.
iRobot (2004) – another where the initial programming by a human is taken very literally by a robot created to save us all from ourselves, who then unleashes a robot attack to control people ‘for their own good’ because we are so destructive. But that film is mentioned here for its coordination of said robot army, all connected by a central hive link, all marching to the same drum. If they get to monitor all your conversations, and always listen, as well as talk silently themselves, how would you know?
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – Hal. Need I say more?
There is something very sinister about a person trying to be your overseer, and be in control of your every move, deciding what to ‘allow’ or ‘deny’ you, so why would it be any less creepy because it is a mechanical representation of a humanistic ideal. Robots are already intertwined with our current society, just the faceless ones behind the scenes, the programmes and the AI they have running things or involved. But now they want them to have faces, and legs and some kind of presence right alongside you. Taking away the personal human approach, which to be fair, has been on the downturn for a while and not entirely by accident. Hoping maybe that people will gladly accept any company, even robotic, if they have been starved of proper human interaction for long enough. And then it becomes the go to for comfort, and people become less familiar. Perhaps. But the powers that be already do, and will continue to hide behind technology and systems, seeming incapable when the computer says no, to understand what you mean when they say the computer is wrong. That won’t even be a thing in their future. It will never be wrong as long as it is rigged in their favour. The camera never lies as they used to say…
Two categories that we are apparently set for, or have been set for us. And recently it couldn’t be clearer that we are viewed as A Commodity when useful to them, and a burden when not. So, they seem to view us as either a useful idiot, when we are in our prime, or well-placed to further a cause, and then become useless eaters if then in need of housing, care or assistance. And it seems that term is no longer just reserved for the elderly – I was quite shocked though to hear it first from my elderly grandparents, who saw it as a practical comment. I did not, and it led to many a conversation about how people are viewed in society, and what is considered ‘useful’ from a corporate ideal. And I get it if you are that type of person, why you might think like that, I really do. But as with many things, it just lacks heart, and it shows. A cold-hearted society may be a practical one, and even efficient in terms of productivity to a point, but doesn’t lead to any form of contentment or happiness. But those things don’t seem to be considered or cared about in reality, only in theory and for the purposes of trying to sell you things and ideas to make it seem so, because if it was in fact paramount that people should be healthy, happy and content first, and profit, products and Consumerism came second, we would be in a very different place. But we aren’t. We are here.
I have mentioned in many articles how it would appear to be a systematic breakdown and change of society, It seems an attack covers much of this, but there was also a darker side being revealed throughout this last few years. Touched on in a few articles, It looked sinister, More than sinister, and It’s big business, but even now it continues and gets worse as time goes on. The push to offer people medically assisted death is on the increase, conveniently after they have put something out onto the market which can cause a terrible chain of events that may lead someone to feeling like that. A few cases of people doing it just because they have mental illness is a bit of a shocker now that it is offered, I’m now used to that level of sinister, but not that people chose it. Or do they? Is it just an idea that is put there like so many others, then all roads are narrowed towards it, steering you in that direction which you would have never found your own way to? I wonder. But it seems it’s the commonwealth countries mainly shouting about it, Canada making headlines now with it, but last year it was New Zealand, and there was talk of it two years ago in the UK. They are making so much money out of sickness and death it’s obscene. But as I have pointed out before, by allowing people to die what we would consider prematurely, it frees up lots of resources and assets in the eyes of the government. Why do you think they wanted The Digital Doomsday Database? Because then they can run the numbers and probably work out that if they remove lots of pensioners, hey, no pensions to pay, and their property and assets can either be taken, or made to go back into society. It’s shocking how much money is made from elderly people in care homes, and that there is a great incentive to put them there, drain their resources if they had any, and then quietly get rid of them. Some people it seems have been investigating for years and trying to reveal the fact that care homes, doctors, lawyers and officials are all in on it in some cases, facilitating vast sums of profit from making sure someone gets put in a home, and cannot deal with their own affairs thereafter, sometimes being drugged into compliance, my article Security goes into that a little more if interested. If you don’t think they would do that to old people, think again. If they are willing to drug children at school for the sake of making them fit the mould, I have no hesitation in thinking they would do the same to old people, who in their eyes are no longer fit, and are being an obstacle to profits and material wealth. Hell, even family members sometimes view their own like that, so again, is it so hard to believe that someone who has never met you and has dollars in their eyes, may view you as such?
And it’s not just pensioners now and children who are being targeted for their vulnerabilities, it’s all age groups, for various reasons. Creating new waves of illnesses, problems and dependency, destabilising the economy and well and truly upsetting the applecart as one might say. Bringing more vulnerabilities out in people, making sure there will be a new generation beholden to their tightly woven net of society, where they can tie you in and make sure you always have to keep coming back to them, with your cap in hand like little orphan Oliver saying ‘Please sir, can I have some more’. They are even talking of taking people out of the breeding process to a point, with babies that can grown in pods, covered in (Pod life). Detached from an early point, in more ways than one. But currently it would appear that whatever role you play in society, you still fall into the two categories in the eyes of ‘them’. And when you have served your purpose, there are rumours that useful idiots don’t always get to become useless eaters, because they know too much. And many of the useful idiots don’t even know they are one, and seem shocked when someone else points it out to them. Whether that is genuine shock or just part of the act, who knows, but finding out you have been used as a pawn or weapon without your knowledge must be quite unsettling if you hadn’t realised up until then.
But whether they think we are one or the other, they still model lots of things around that premise, seeing us a targets, goals and percentages. And the most import thing to them, profit and money. How much do we cost? How much can they save? How much is enough or too much? They appear to be working to margins, and we are one of them. Talking about scaling back, net-zero, more targets and goals to reduce this, and stop that. Quite the opposite from what the captains of industry apparently stood for. But while they talk of it, and show pretty charts with almost childish overlays of future cities, they hold expensive fuel guzzling presentations around the world to ‘discuss it’, and want to be seen as the ones in charge of these decisions. Taking something by stealth, rather than by force. They need volunteers to make these things work, it has to appear a certain way, otherwise it doesn’t work. Think of the film Logans Run, where everything was just fine until people started asking questions, and curiosity tore it all down in the end. But I wondered about how they got to that point, in the domed city in the first place. In the upgraded similar storyline of The Island, we are led to believe they are all grown down there and know no different (in pods I might add, so make of that what you will). So, what if in Logans Run, they all voluntarily went into the city, and shunned the outside world, as they were told too. Aeon Flux is another interesting film for a society living in a enclosed city, also with some power deluded people at the helm. It’s a feature of many films, and not one that should be overlooked, because while we may view movies of an exaggerated version of real life, or sometimes just a purely fictional story, there is often a thread of truth running through them all or give you a thought that sometimes should be followed. And it may well be that it leads nowhere, and means nothing, but sometimes it might mean something, and unless you follow it, how will you know…
They have been laying them for quite some time. As you might lay machinery under the ground, waiting for what appears to be a bolt of lightning to activate them and let them rise up and take shape. But what if that ‘machinery’ wasn’t clunky metal as we might know it or think of it, but what if it was thoughts, ideas and scenarios. Activating a mechanism of imagery and fear to achieve a desired result. Many have talked of an alien invasion for years, of if there are aliens, are we alone in the universe and all that. Careers have been dedicated to them, special secret branches of government apparently allocated for it, books written, TV programs made, and movies churned out whenever a reminder of an outside threat needs to be reinforced. I’ll mention the most classic one, and a benchmark in this project in my mind.
War of the Worlds. In all its forms, is quite a story. But it’s the radio show I’ll mainly refer to here, which was run as a Halloween special on October 30th 1938. And if the reactions to it are true, it had quite an impact, causing people to apparently believe that there was in fact an alien invasion taking place, and they were in fact, hearing it. I guess the imagination did the rest to accompany a compelling rendition of the tale. Was it a test run? To prime people’s thoughts for a later fear? In the late 1800’s there were many a horror and science fiction story going around, yet we are told many were illiterate around that time, so who were these books and stories really for? Was it always mean to be a continuous cycle of fictional invasions and doom, apparent wars thrown in here and there, and more and more ‘history’ of disaster, wars and death by way of huge catastrophe or external forces causing our destruction. Some of the films that spring to mind are
Imdependence Day – the obvious one I’m sure.
X-Files – the movie and the series in general, making the idea seems as plausible as possible.
Cloverfield – An odd film, but still one of grand visuals and lots of panic.
War of the Worlds Film – makes an impact watching it for sure, and puts that extra fearful idea partially in mind. They were already here.
After that, there are many where it is localised invasion, or visitation or abduction. Various different ways for you to imagine your world and life being turned upside down by something that is so terrifying and strange, that you probably like to think you would always react like the people in the movies do. And run or fight back. But what of the movies where the enemy looks just like everyone else? People don’t always fight back, or even notice it’s their enemy until it’s too late. And maybe it suits a purpose for people to be worried about an unseen, unknown force that may or not even exist or ever be in their reality. Because while you are concerned and looking out for what appears to be an over-the-top entrance and announcement of doom and enslavement from an alien race, you don’t notice the quiet and stealthy approach for the same result, from your what appears to be your own.
It’s funny really, when I think of the last few years and the overwhelming push online, to show that everything will be digital. Including people and lives. As I’ve said before, and this should not be overlooked in its implications, but we are no longer consumers in the old sense, we are becoming products to be consumed by the corporations. My piece Consumerism goes into that a bit more.
But what amused me, is while telling us how it’s all going to be great, a technical revolution in fact, everything digital and electric, and you will just be a set of data codes to run along inside that. We are also being told how unsafe and perilous it all is. Cyber-attacks, power cuts, supply chain issues, financial collapse, even of the crypto currencies it would seem. Your accounts can be hacked and you can be frozen out if they don’t like you, or there is a simple glitch. Like saying come and live in this straw house, it’s totally safe. Oh, but now it’s moving day, I need to let you know it is prone to catching fire. You would think again, wouldn’t you? Or someone advising you to get married, telling you that person is great, oh, but hang on, by the way they’ve cheated on you and you’ll have to get divorced pretty quickly after. Again, you wouldn’t do it. Well, I like to think people wouldn’t.
Unfortunately, while some of the above is being implemented whether we like it or not, that is not to say it will work, because we are still required to perform a function. Monopoly doesn’t play itself, and it can’t only work with just a banker, so it needs the ‘players’ to make it work, that’s us. And some of them obviously, but they make sure they have Mayfair and Park Lane sewn up, and we get a small piece of Whitechapel and Old Kent Road, if you get my meaning. And when you see a representation of when someone gets really pissed off, playing forever and losing all the time, and they suddenly stand up and flip the board to ruin the whole thing and storm off, it ends the game doesn’t it? Obviously, I know we can’t just tip the board upside down, life is slightly more complex, but you can make it so that you are not such an integral part of making all these new systems they want permanent, if you really don’t like them. As with much past and present, they like to create and maintain an illusion of something, and if the mind should choose not to delve or think beyond the facade, then it works just fine. But like those fake house frontages in Leinster Gardens in London, sometimes it really does appear as it should, fitting in to the normal eye, but behind it is something far different. Also think Truman Show, when he breaks from his routine and enters a building, and the actors then scramble to remove him and hide from view what gives it away. Kind of like how it seems when something revealing and often has a thread of truth gets posted online, and there is a sudden rush to declare it ‘misinformation’, or to discredit it. But to be honest, if it is a dead end and not true, then what does it matter if someone gives it time and thought? It’s their choice to, and if it goes nowhere and shows nothing, then what’s the harm? But if it does go somewhere, and there is something to reveal, well, there would be a reason to want to derail or halt someone’s line of questioning or thought, wouldn’t there?
So, while some people may think everything is as it seems, and those pushing new products and social changes just want better for everyone, there are others who do and will continue to think differently. To look at the overall purpose or financial gain that might be achieved by such a move, or how it could be used for nefarious purposes, and given what we have seen already, I believe that is the best way to think…
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