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A Lost Generation

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Anti-depressants, suicide rates and a very strange social and political landscape is laid out currently for young people (and people of all ages it would seem, but young children and teenagers in particular are getting a very stacked deck right now).

They are now saying all the drugs for depression and anxiety they have been prescribing for decades, probably don’t help. The world of psychiatry is being redefined like everything else, so no surprises there. But the fall out for real people is there. They have also now miraculously found a stunning correlation between prescribing of anti-psychotic drugs to teenagers, and a rather high rate of suicide amongst the very same age group. They are being drugged, brainwashed at school, bombarded by the media and now society is being dismantled before their eyes. We may have had to contend with the first three ourselves growing up, and kids of the 70’s will remember it definitely feeling like society was going down the pan, but what is happening now will and is affecting the current and future generations. Giving them a new range of mental illnesses, which I am sure will get named in time, the studies and ‘cures’ will follow. As is the way, although the trust in those systems is rather quickly being eroded, as they are proving themselves to be gluttonous charlatans.

And in that way, we are all the lost generation, having had something taken from us and replaced with a overwhelming societal view that others decided for us. They have named each of us too, Gen x, Gen Y and Gen Z. Given us slightly different drugs, adapted teachings slightly to separate us from the last, making sure there is limited cohesion and shared experiences. It might sound silly but a small thing from school made me start thinking it. I put a line through the number 7 when I write it, and I had no idea that others didn’t, until I left school. I then started hearing about the difference between O’level, and GSCE, and what seems like a small normal change to update things, struck me as a really good way to make sure people from one generation to the next, don’t have the same skills, or teachings, or knowledge. Then I linked it to history and other things they teach, knowing that if the teacher is misinformed, then the students will be too. A very simple, yet effective way to make sure certain things you would like in the general populous as knowledge, to be so. And by naming a generation and giving it a cut-off point, it also helps to imagine you are separated, stand-alone, unique. And having your own time is special, of music, fashion, social changes – but it is not unique, and should help to bind us a society, bringing fresh and new perspectives on things and developing in a natural way. Instead, it has been used to help divide us, with a few little nudges along the way.

The boomer generation, the latchkey kids, the computer generation – those were the names I think before we were abbreviated to merely a letter of the alphabet. Our generational experiences summarised into one letter, I guess to minimise its meaning, to make it smaller and easier to categorise. But what of the new kids on the block, what I’m sure they will dub ‘the covid generation’ or something ridiculous like that, to define the era they came into being, or found themselves growing up. Then will be neatly repackaged as Gen-C. I have speculated in my article What comes next about them being called Gen-E, hinting at Generation Experiment. But we all are, and have been for more than an age or two. And what they will be called is irrelevant, it’s just a continuation of the old system, but with a new facade, a new front and image and new group to work on and with. That’s why I say we are all the lost generation, because so many decades and centuries have already been lost to those who seek to ‘parent’ us and give the appearance of holding our hand through life. But they are actually keeping us prisoner from life. More so in the last few years, but if you look back to their insidious creep into every aspect of life over the decades, you can see this has been coming for a long time. It was a piece at a time gave thought to that, and where it is headed. .

So, does understanding and seeing what they are doing change it? Not on the face of it, but change isn’t always obvious and it doesn’t always have to be big to make a difference. It all starts somewhere…

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As It Goes

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As we watch the inevitable destruction of the economy really pick up pace, it is dawning on people now what’s going on, to a point. It may be pubs leading the way in the news and on social media, and with the reach they have, it can only help to be shouting it from the rooftops. But all businesses premises are going to be affected, and homes, schools, supermarkets and the list goes on. Covered yesterday in Pubs, inns and taverns.

But what of the mental impact it’s having on people. The anguish being caused directly to the people shutting up shop and losing their livelihood, and to the folk who have to watch it happen. Feeling helpless, angry and dismayed at what is unfolding. And rightly so. It’s a travesty, and not one that can be recovered from lightly – once they are gone, they are gone. Seeing and hearing constantly about terrible things happening, things that are coming, and nothing to look forward to can have a devastating impact on someone, child and adult alike. That by itself can be debilitating to some. Even if we did see it coming, they made it clear where it was going, but hoodwinked a lot of folk into thinking they would never let it get to this, while the rest saw the obvious switch, meaning it would actually lead to this.

Remember when they introduced furlough? Billions on it, for people to sit nicely at home and play the game – and some of us said they were setting us up, and there would be a huge cost to it, not just in money. Well, now this is the next level of the same game, it was always a trap, and some just jumped right into it. Many did, millions in fact, and it was enough to lead us to here. Where there are still billions of pounds available to help you, but they don’t want to. They actually want the destruction, because no sane logical human being would continue down this route. Unless helping wasn’t on the cards. Once you understand they are actively trying to hinder and destroy, it makes a lot more sense when you look around. To What you see here.

Because to many it doesn’t make sense, as they are still thinking along the lines that it should. Which can also lead to getting a bit stuck, mentally. Toiling over the reasonable approach and end up becoming bewildered and exasperated at the lack of reason and logic. And there one stays, in a state of mild shock and never quite moving forward to the next stage, anger. Plenty are there already, don’t get me wrong, but they are also stuck, as the anger can’t be resolved and therefore festers and grows. Part of what they are counting on, but isn’t as straightforward as you might think. The consensus is, they will push for civil unrest, impose martial law, and then the implementation of the digital prison is rolled out in full. Which I don’t argue with, but that only works if the anger they have created, is not directed at them. It needs to be people against people, fighting each other for a place in the new regime. Division and hatred are used as weapons as much as any violence or artillery, but they are not as obvious, so many don’t even notice.

A major red flag should have been at the beginning of this debacle, when they announced that they had a ‘nudge unit’ of behavioural scientists drawing up plans to convince, manipulate, coerce and brainwash people into complying, but making it seem like their decision. I knew then they would use that against people when the time came, and indeed they did. Now when it comes to liability, very quickly becoming a taboo word, they very quickly positioned themselves away from responsibility, showing really why those coercive methods were used. But they still sound quite cold and detached when named as such, let’s call it what it really is. Fear tactics. Also dubbed Project Fear, i started using this name early on, as others did it seems, many of us saw it, recognised it and even tried to warn others. But fear can be paralysing, to body and mind, and not necessarily both at the same time. Your body can still be going through the motions, yet your mind is not quite taking part, instead just in stasis somewhere in mind.

And that is what they created and used to get people on board with their frenzied relentless pursuit of medical dominion over the population. A power that no person or corporation should have over the masses. Ever. But it really does seem as though they expected everyone to be fooled, and to roll over and turn into scared headless chickens, waiting for the next sign to know what to do. My previous piece Mass Psychosis or Run Around covered this from the angle of the people who did.

But what of now, where we are today, no longer in the grip of a manufactured ‘pandemic crisis’, we have lurched on to a ‘climate and energy crises’, where guess what? Simply money and restrictions can yet again save the day. Colour me shocked. Not only are we witnessing what appears to be the biggest money laundering operation in plain sight, everyone is being taken down with it, well, everyone at a certain level of society anyway. And whether they thought we would be too stupid to see it, or that everyone would just get on board with their sinister, heartless, illogical and deviant plans, I’m not sure. Given the stresses they have presented to people to now have as a daily routine, I suspect many people are not falling in line, or just going along with the new rules set before them. Enough are though, and that is where it gets interesting, because I have speculated on their being a split society in my piece There was always going to be two, and it seems a split is occurring. Not just with the divides of old – class, politics, money, race, employment, location, but with new ones added for foreign politics, personal medical history, illnesses.

It’s a systematic sensory overload, and one that many aren’t meant to make it through mentally, phsycially, emotionally or financially. Because if they can’t get to you physically, they will try to get to you mentally, through real or virtual threats and it’s a knock on effect. It suits their purpose for us to speculate, and although I might not like it, by even writing about it, I am helping in a small way to contribute to their project fear, by highlighting and detailing it. But I do it in the hope that by explaining it, and breaking it down into a logical format, that others may be able to see through the illusion that they have us all over a barrel, because at this stage, that it is only how it seems. We may not know where this goes or how this ends, but being afraid of the unknown shouldn’t make us just accept something that is known. Knowing when to Walk Away is important, both in body and mind. Keep your wits about you, stay sharp and try and keep your head above water, seems like a flood is coming…

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Quiet Quitting – what does it say about you?

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I have seen talk of what some people have dubbed ‘quiet quitting’ where in some weird silent protest, you stop being productive at work and instead become a dead weight, because you ‘don’t like’ it. Believing in some way it shows up the employer or the workplace as having the issue. And maybe there are issues that need to be dealt with, but not quite sure how not working or communicating said issues is a positive thing.

Maybe I have missed a point or something, but it just sounds like a very childish thing to do, and as well as wasting time and resources for your employer, you are actually wasting your own time and selling yourself short. I have had many jobs, and have left many jobs. I may not have left right away when I knew it wasn’t for me, but I sure as shit didn’t drag everyone else down with me, which is what this sounds like to me.

Instead I took action to either change what I didn’t like about my workplace, management or role, or left to go and work hard somewhere else. It was that simple and covered in my piece Work ethic and employment. Refusing to lower my standards for someone else, rather just accepting that I was no longer of use where I was. Played out in real time in one particular job where the manager was useless, the staff knew it and we were failing as an office because of it, so I reported them. In the meeting to discuss it (I was 21 at the time), the area manager said they knew they knew the manager was crap, but good managers don’t grow on trees, I should lower my standards. And being honest, it was probably one of the best things he could have said, because it shocked me slightly that anyone would expect me to lower my standards to fit a failing system, and it also clearly showed me I was working with the wrong people. When something has run its course important to know when Walking Away is appropriate. By staying and just demotivating yourself, when you could be getting on with that you could or should be doing, seems very counter productive. To me anyway.

I also developed a certain mindset rather early on, that when I quit something it wasn’t a failure on my part, it was a move to stop wasting time and took me a step closer to what I was meant to be doing, whatever that was. It became a positive thing, although that didn’t mean I just went and quit at the drop of a hat, but my length of time at jobs became less and less throughout my 20’s as my confidence, skills and ability developed further. I realised I wouldn’t get what I was seeking from a workplace, or a boss, so at 27 started my own business in admin and finance, making sure I could work to my standard and level of professionalism. If I had lowered my standard, or reduced my interests because of someone else demotivaing me (and there have been many who could have), I quite probably wouldn’t have made it this far, still running my business. And setting up another one a few later later for all my creative endeavours.

Quiet quitting to me, means quitting on yourself, but by using someone else as way of an excuse. Take ownership of your own situation, recognise what it is you don’t like about it, or the person/people causing it, and work to change it, or remove yourself from it. Don’t sink to their level as they say, use it to realise you are not like them.

There are of course, a few people, who are not quiet quitters at all through demotivation, they are simply just lazy and don’t pull their weight, and never did. instead getting their feet under the table and doing as little as possible to get by, and get paid. Furlough really let those people shine through, but looks like many are here to stay, for a short while anyway. There will be many job losses coming over the coming months if the ridiculous and catastrophic energy debacle is allowed to continue. Where only supermarkets and homes will have power, and everything else will be closed or running on rations. Sounds fun doesn’t it? I do understand that now we have a different landscape for work and employment dawning, you can’t train or plan properly anymore and I commend any small businesses that make it through, whatever your attitude. And I don’t blame poeple for not really feeling like their heart is in it anymore, it’s been metaphorically ripped out of their chest in some cases, so being demotivated is a real problem right now, and not through laziness, but sheer worry.

So, we really need people to be thinking about making things work and actually doing it, rather than putting your feet up, switching off and thinking someone else is going to do it for you and not even caring if it works or not. This is your life, take control and take part while you still can…

(c) K Wicks

There Was A Time Before

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Not to be confused with The Before Time 😉 article, which is of a more recent past. This one goes back a bit further, and concerns electricity, high prices, bills and the current orchestrated ‘cost of living crisis’ which looms over the country. From one ’emergency’ to another, eh? Don’t get me wrong, we are in an emergency, just not the one they say we are, which is neatly distracting everyone from what they are up to and have done being the cause of the problem.

While paying attention over the years, I noted that they seemed pretty keen on blocking up old fireplaces, and building new houses without them. I thought then it seemed folly, what if there was a grid issue, or we couldn’t produce electricity for whatever reason? I grew up without central heating as a constant, and we relied sometimes on an open fire, or bottled gas heaters when we didn’t have it, so it seemed an obvious thing to keep, from my point of view. As a manual back-up for a weak, overloaded system which at some point would surely fail, or be restricted. And here we are, and not quite by accident I must say. There is a reason they took away people’s ability to heat their own homes, and are looking to impose further regulations and restrictions on wood burners and fires. Do you see the pattern yet?

So, let’s go back to the not-too-distant past, where we didn’t have electricity running freely into every home and being available ‘at the flick of a switch’. Everything still worked, albeit by different means and at a different pace, but we had shops, pubs and inns, hotels, houses, industry and commerce. So, I find it quite strange how suddenly we are being told, and quite incorrectly I might add, that we must cut back, and not have enough power or fuel to provide heat, or enough to grow food or transport. All those things revolving around their quota of ‘carbon output’. Which they invented and decided the scale for by the way, fixing the system to their own advantage as has been done for a rather long time. So, how is it, that for many centuries, without constant electricity and invention of all these electrical gadgets and conveniences, did people manage to sustain themselves? How did villages, towns and cities thrive and go on to build huge empires? Quite the mystery.

Yet now we have this wonderful thing called ‘electricity’, we are going down the pan, fighting amongst ourselves repeatedly and in more elaborate ways, and using it to enslave humanity within a digital prison. Doesn’t sound very advanced to me, just presenting the illusion of being so, to trick people into thinking because it is digital and technological, that it must be progressive. When clearly it is not so. It’s being used for destructive purposes and not for advancement at all, instead it is being used for enslavement. Electricity was our first tether, seemingly followed by the wires, cables, phones etc. Now we have wireless we are led to believe that electricity is actually now just all around us, without the need for cables and wires at all, making it seem more open. Still tethered though. But to them, they who provide the ‘access’ to it, gatekeep it. Charge you for it, bind you to it. They want everything dependent on it, in their world you will need it to have food, shelter, employment, friends and generally what they call a life.

But in reality, you don’t need it for any of those things, they can all be achieved through manual ways and means. It’s just ‘easier’ and more ‘convenient’ to use electrical machinery and systems. Or at least it was. The goalposts have changed, dramatically, and so must our thinking towards it. What they show as the future is rather sterile, ordered and emotionless, more like a simulation of a life, but without something very important. Reality. Which sounds odd I know; how could you possibly have a life without it being reality? It seems you can, by way of their virtual augmented future plans, it’s easily done. But we have already started to slip towards it through living online, being heavily integrated with online systems and procedures already. It’s an alternate reality being constructed around us, slowly and piece by piece. My article It was a piece at a time, shows how it can be done without people even noticing. So, by the time it switches, you know no different and accept the almost seamless slip from one reality into the next, as it seems somewhat familiar by now.

It does appear as though their entire future is based upon electricity and the need for it, without it none of their systems can work. The digital ID’s and scanned QR passes into every establishment wouldn’t work, the constant monitoring online and cameras, wouldn’t work, the ability to beam propaganda into every home and TV screen, wouldn’t work. Their omnipotent illusion just wouldn’t hold up without it, and the strange future they seem to have planned for countries by way of control through these mechanisms, seem wholly dependent on it. A key to their success perhaps, without it, the whole system fails. But society and people can thrive without it, and certainly can when it isn’t being used as a weapon against us. Power means power, literally.

(c) K Wicks

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Zombies? Perhaps…

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Prepped for it, exposed to the ideas of it and potentially waiting for it. Gen X are the ones in line for this I feel, and possibly quite a few of Gen Y as well. And I wondered why. Why the need to have it as a mainstream idea, they are not without uses and this one has been carried forward like a security blanket. As if the idea of an outbreak leading to a zombie apocalypse has been so thought through and expected, that it can’t be let go of. And I’m sure the idea of it may seem silly to some who have not considered it, but to a certain group of people, or section of society should I say, I suspect they know precisely what I am talking about.

I have already given a brief overview of my thought in The Zombie Thing article, and touched upon the idea of the dead coming back in The dead walk the earth, but could it be that it was never meant to be that way. The idea of it was. People fear people, that’s no secret, but the idea of people being turned or mutating into the very worst version of a human is one of our deepest fears perhaps. The number of humanoid monsters and demons that are depicted in movies and films is like that for a reason, because we can identify with it, however horrible it is. And that is what makes it even scarier, seeing part of you in it, and it in you.

But what if they pre-program us to behave in that way when faced with what appears to be a similar scenario. There seems something familiar about it, so we do what makes us feel most comfortable in an uncomfortable situation. If we remember ‘seeing’ someone else react a certain way, even if only on the television, it is still a reference of experience, or at least our brain may treat it as such. Two things spring to mind, even if only a loose connection to what I mean. Firstly, a Derren Brown trick in one his tv series years ago, where a chap was playing a zombie video arcade game, and then he was ‘hypnotised’ by Derren to think it was happening. Add in some actors in make-up, lighting and everyone else playing along, and he thought it was real. Even without being hypnotised, just having actors, make up and scenery can do the job tricking our mind into believing that is our reality at that moment. We have two processing centres in our brain (they say), called primary processing centre, which obviously acts as the first response. Followed by the secondary processing system, which then takes over after the initial reaction to review it and make sure it was appropriate. But as we know, in a split-second life or death decision making situation, you will have to reply on the primary response centre. Whatever information it is accessing for that moment is what you will have to go with, so if you don’t have very good reasoning skills or reactions on the spot, you will fail. No pressure or anything.

The second thing that came to mind, in two parts, or rather two things rolled into one. A company started doing zombie simulation ‘games’. Where you had an area, actors pretending to be zombies, and the thrill ride of pretending the outbreak was happening but in safety and a big comfort zone. The other tie in being the film The Fifth Wave – whereby they fool children into thinking there are aliens/infected that have to be killed – but really they are other humans. We appear to have a bulk of crisis actors across the board today, and although it might seem far-fetched to think we could actually have a zombie virus outbreak. I sure as hell believe they could easily fake one. As has been done with so many other situation, scenarios and events.

But that does not mean to say the time was wasted or misspent, there may well be a time coming where we have to consider if our fellow man is really so, and that something dark does indeed lurk and dwell in this realm. You never know when there may come a time for all that training and thought to be put to good use…

(c) K Wicks

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There Was Always Going To Be Two

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It was always going to be this way it seems, where society splits into two factions (at a minimum). The empire and the rebellion, for a dramatic portrayal. I wonder whether that’s why they were so keen to get everyone on board with their ‘health program’, and now seem intent on a follow through ‘digital program’ to get everyone trapped into their version of society. To make us play along with their rather grand delusion of controlling everyone by way of technology. Integrating us with their systems, building them around us.

Through my usual way of listing films, I will show how it was always going to be this way. Us and them.

Star Wars – The Empire and The Rebellion, a constant battle between light and dark, and a good motivator for some. If you are one of those people, you know what I mean.

Bladerunner – against a corporation, as is the theme for many a film (Resident Evil, Total Recall, Eagle Eye, Die Hard etc), but what struck me about the film, is that although it was about a future with synthetic humans, everything else seemed to be run down. As if they deliberately held down the rest of society to be the most powerful. Obvious, but it still impressed upon me.

Alita – a recent film, but one which is very clear about you down there, and them up there. People fighting each other and desperate to have a chance to be like them. It’s an odd movie, and quite sad really.

Elysium – Similar theme to the above, a better world hovering just above you, you can see it, but you can’t go there. They have everything you don’t, and again people’s lives are based around trying to attain what they are excluded from, for no reason other than manufactured reasons by way of design. Another sad film.

The Matrix – very us and them, from early on. Against the machines generally, but by way of a percieved threat while in the mainframe. Hunted by the agents, and inevitability, of course.

Demolition Man – a great example (albeit a slightly cheesy one) of people taking over, and deciding what is right, and best, and safe for everyone. Forcing people who do not fit into the plan to live in sewers. I saw that as a very clear sign of just how extreme it could get, under the guise of ‘for everyone’s good’.

Oblivion – slightly different because the movie switches halfway through, it is us and them, but not who you think. And they have a cunning use of exclusion areas due to ‘radiation zones’ leading to the lie being continued.

Logans Run – this film is a bit further along in the split of society, with almost no-one left on the outside, but one man. Peter Ustinov playing a wonderful role, but showing how quickly it can change and disappear. The people who have been living in a domed city have no idea about outside and what the world once was, instead being kept in a controlled environment with a maximum age allowed of 30 years old. The Island (2005) has similar undertones to it, but is a much darker view of what people may be kept and bred separately for.

There are plenty of unhinged people with disturbing ideas out there, and most of them are of no concern to anyone and go about their day keeping their unsettling thoughts and ideas to themselves. But it is when someone of that ilk decides to step out of their head and enact those thoughts, then we have a problem. As well we should. Things don’t just happen instantly or by accident it seems, they are engineered and are occurring over a period of time, with very clear markers of concern that should be recognised and acknowledged. We may not know what to do about what is coming, but we don’t need to deny it’s there, or agree to be part of it. Some may think that if they go along with it now, it will be easier for them later, having already been well groomed for a points-based scoring system. Incentives and rewards are how it starts, then the requests become more unreasonable and will always descend into demands and punishment if you don’t. Same shit, different day.

(c) K Wicks

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A little bit of privacy

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I gave it thought after explaining what privacy meant in childhood for me. It was limited and coveted, and I snatched it up where I could.

If you grew up with siblings, you might remember mornings being noisy, and hectic. Sleepy and having to get ready for school. The journey to which being noisy and busy, either walking or on the bus. Then you get to school, surrounded by lots of people, maybe you get a few minutes to yourself in the toilet or at break, but not often. There was stuff to talk about, and things to do before you had to go back to the confinement of the classroom.

After a long day of constant people and learning, back home again to then do the domestic routine. Getting to be able to go out after school used to be time to unwind. Even though usually spent with friends, it didn’t seem as demanding. Just relaxing and checking things out or being silly. Weekends and school holidays used to be the best for knowing you didn’t have that stupid daily bind. And if you were able to be out of the house, it was great. No-one knew where you were, what you were doing. It was nice, as is the nostalgic thought of it, because I enjoyed those moments then as I do now. My mother wanted to know what I was always up to, and I had an older sibling who was not my ally. And as you learn along the way, some ‘friends’ can’t be trusted either. So, trying to find a bit of peace in yourself in your own time can be a full-time job sometimes. I guess that’s why it seems that privacy and freedom go hand in hand.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t ever go away just because you get older. It turns into employment instead of education, where you still have a schedule and it needs to be maintained. It can be the same for people who chose to stay at home and bring up the kids rather than employment (or insanely juggle both). I realise the need for just five minutes on your own sometimes is necessary for everyone. Especially if you spend a lot of time around people, not everyone understands how draining it can be. Even if it’s your nearest and dearest. (The funny videos on the internet showing this by way of a closed bathroom door and a horde of animals and kids outside waiting). And now there is a new world of busy without even leaving your house or being in the company of anyone, you have The Internet. Where you can feel surrounded and drained without physically being around people at all, it’s an odd thing really. That we allow the perception of it being real, and that they are people we are engaging with, therefore use real emotions and time to deal with it. Maybe that’s why we have so many bots taking up people’s time and stirring the pot perhaps – if that is the case. To take that energy that people freely give and leave them drained and unsatisfied. Not just the fake profiles, real people can do it too, strange though that so many allow it from people who aren’t anywhere near them, or anything to do with them, or who aren’t even people.

Maybe it’s been with us now for so long, the internet, that people don’t understand what privacy and time to yourself is anymore, that it has lost its meaning. Or for some, perhaps they were never comfortable with just their own company, so the idea that they can be ‘with people’ all the time is better for them, which is why they do not complain about the digital society taking over every aspect of life. They welcome it because it gives them a feeling of security, where the previous society caused them anxiety and uncertainty. The digital one appears to offer a friendly network of life and opportunity, people and virtual experiences. Where they will monitor you to tailor everything to you, making it seem as if you are important. And you are, in coding and for numbers only. They need a certain number of ‘players’ to make it work, and see it through to conclusion, and so far, unfortunately, there seems to be lots of willing bodies happy to oblige them. But what of the ones who do not wish to play the game, to insert ourselves into this buckled mainframe and help to create their fantasy illusion of omnipotent overseer. Like skynet, but with a face. I guess we have to see what happens next and how they plan to target the remaining freedoms we have, and those who choose to stand up for them…

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Cities in the Sky

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It turns out, there have been many instances of cities in the sky, or fata morgana as they have been named. I only knew on one in China a few years back, but seems there have been others. Charles Fort collected a number of tales as below and detailed in his book New Lands.

In October of 1796 a mirage of a walled town had been seen distinctly for half an hour at Yougal in Ireland. Again upon March 9th 1797 in Yougal had been seen a mirage of a walled town.

In June of 1801 a mirage of an unknown city, It was seen for more than an hour. A representation of mansions surrounded by shrubbery, with forests behind.

October 10th 1881 that at Rugenwalde, Pomerania now Poland and Germany the mirage of a village had been seen in the sky, Snow covered roofs from which hung icicles.

On June 29th 1882 over lake Orsa in Sweden, representations of steam ships had been seen in the sky, and an island covered with vegetation.

March 12th 1890 at 4pm in the sky of Ashland, Ohio was seen a representation of a large unknown city.

Early in June 1897 in the Yukon in Alaska, A city had been seen in the sky, The description of this city is that it looked like some immense city from the ancient past.

On Feb 17th 1901 it is said Indians of Alaska had told of the occasional appearance of city, appearing suspended in the sky, description by visitors to this area, we could see plainly houses, well defined streets, here and there rose tall spires over huge buildings, which appeared to be ancient mosques and cathedrals. More like an ancient European city.

August 2nd 1908 at Ballyconneely on the coast of Ireland, was seen a phantom city, of different sized houses, in different styles of architecture, visible for over 3 hours.

And in 2015 there was a sighting and video footage in China of one.

Hard to know for sure what is going on up there, but interesting none-the-less.

Some large cloud shadows I saw in Spain

(c) K Wicks

Sim City

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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

Face Of A Clown, In Story Town

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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

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