Thoughts

The Grey Matter

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We split things into categories so easily. But black and white is a bold and never-ending one it seems, as if the pieces of society have been set up to mimic a chessboard, the opposite spectrums of light using stratgety to overthrow their opponent. Using Pawns, Bishops, Knights and Castles to save the monarchy via tactics and planning. No similarities to real life there at all eh? People have noticed we appear to be those pieces on the chessboard, most of us general folk being the pawns, but while also being able to recognise the other ‘players and pieces’ involved.

And while it may be a basic analogy likening real life to a game, it’s far more complex than that. I briefly touched upon chess being a good way to understand the pre thought that goes into some things being played out in my article Opposition. While they want everyone to be opposed to each other, and not agreeing, it achieves division for things and people are more prone to not stand together on anything. Did you ever meet someone who seemed to argue or disagree just for the sake of it, because they like irritating people? If you haven’t, great, but they are out there, and being encouraged more and more. Trying to show that it makes you an individual if you ‘go against the grain’, but sometimes good to note, the grain goes a certain way for a reason.

And what comes of all that division, of pitting light against dark, black against white, up against down? Well, ironically, it leads to a strange outcome. Unity. But what kind of unity is an important one. There are two in my view, the type of unity where everyone is forced to get along for the ‘greater good’, and it happens by way of regulations, controls and conversion to their way of thinking, totalitarianism. Or, there is the type of unity where the people focus their attention on the ones instituting the ideals and systems which facilitate division, where the only common purpose is to take out your opponent, not go to war for them or help them as we have been forced to for generations, but to actually see them for what they are.

Because behind the well-lit black and white board, and the carefully set pieces that have to run to rules and have a set goal, there is a murky grey area. We get to see the main set up once the pieces are laid out, and be on the board running through our moves until removed or ‘taken out’. But who set the board? The ones who sit behind the chess board deciding how long each move will take, hitting the timer and the next move is then taken by the other side. Back and forth, in a controlled, strategic and agreed manner, but with the ultimate goal of beating your opponent and winning, with the pawns and pieces being used as necessary to achieve that goal. You wouldn’t be able to play chess with someone if they didn’t know the rules or moves, or if they flipped the board every time they lost a piece, you just wouldn’t engage with them anymore. So, before you play chess with someone, you find out if they can play, how good they are and whether it will be worth your time to play a game with them. I suspect that’s why the ones who control the board, appear to play so well with each other, because there is an accord going on, of skill and purpose.

Back to the murky bit though. The area they don’t really want you to focus on, we’ll call it ‘The grey matter’, just like the term they have given to the unknown bits of our brains. We also use that colour to convey that something is a bit of an unknown, a ‘grey area’ we would say. And strangely we have named a certain type of ‘alien’ as the greys, giving shape, name and form to a mysterious group, but by making them out to be alien, gives us a view of them as they would like, as if they were easily identifiable by look alone.

But maybe we have that to be a comedy front, for the real shadowy greys that create the black and white landscape, the one that creates shadows for them to hide in. The shadows of fear, uncertainty and hopelessness. It’s where they live and thrive, and can only have those conditions if the ones who are thrust upon the board keep playing. And when I talk of black and white, I do not mean the colour of people’s skin, I mean the intention in their heart and what dwells within them. There are those who can create lightness, and those who can create darkness, so being able to manipulate or amplify either one of those, must be an advantage in the game of shadows. Not just for the ones doing it, but for those who end up being their keepers or who benefit from their uses, they can become an important tool and weapon. So, maybe once in a while, leave the board and the set pieces too it, and wander off to find a bit of colour…

(c) K Wicks

Reversed Good Times

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There was a time before, as well as The before time. Where we had less, worked more and things were simpler apparently. It was decided a change was needed, less work and a new structure of 8 hours. Children wouldn’t work, they would go to school instead. Extra income and savings would begin, leisure time was introduced by way of social engineering an ongoing fad for holidays. With leisure time, they then gave you amusements and holiday parks, giving you money and encouraging you to spend it where they would like. Don’t think for a minute they wanted people to have better income to be better off.

The good times are going backwards now it seems. They are reversing it, so people have less time and money, less freedom with less access to things that seemed so normal. Creating extra physical barriers now to add to the mental ones they have been instilling for decades. Cutting back on cheap travel, and all travel by the looks of it with 15-minute towns and cities being proposed. Not just across England now, but other places in Europe are following suit. All reading from that same script again.

After conveniently engineering it so that people had the need to travel more with work and life, moved further away from their local area through pricing and schools. Broke up communities and high streets with big supermarkets which now dominate the food chain. They now seek to revert back, wanting you to work and live in one area, shop and socialise and keep fit in one allotted space. Being monitoring and scoring points for ‘good behaviour’ by their standards. Kind of limits curiosity, variety, spontaneity and adventure doesn’t it?

Greed and selfishness drive profit, not consumer need. And however they try and paint these new structures they propose and implement with care or concern, any benefit portrayed will be another ruse. And one not many are buying into it seems with residents annoyed, local councils annoyed and the negative impact of them already being felt. As with the travel restrictions, hospital and GP restrictions and all the other ridiculous, draconian, childish and costly measures, this will cause more issues than it strives to solve. Another part of the rather obvious plan to disrupt and change how things were. Every idea they come out with seems more desperate and juvenile than the last, each one with its price tag and money-making agenda laid out so they can keep taking. More than money though, they take your time, your thoughts, your joy and what we know as freedom, and want more. For that to happen means we the people have to keep having less…

(c) K Wicks

The waiting game

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A thought, of the future and a silly idea that we will be the ones waiting on robots and machines. It was pointed out to me by my other half that we already do. Funny really that I hadn’t already noticed, but then gave it further thought.

We do wait on them, in two ways. By service, and with time. We wait for things to charge, and load, or run its cycle for whatever outcome we await. We have to plug things in, change batteries, calibrate machinery, replace and repair etc. And it may well be that they would like to have robots and machines to do all these things, but it seems not quite here yet, if it is on the horizon. It would seem though there is currently a symbiotic relationship going on, we need them for the society that has developed. And the machines need us to design, build, program, operate and fix them. We don’t require them for quite as much as that though, do we? Apparently, we evolved and developed without machines, and they came much later. Without us, they wouldn’t exist, but without them, we would.

Machines and gadgets that saved us time, we’re put alongside ones that didn’t. Cook faster with a microwave, and sit in front of the TV. Save time washing and cleaning, so you can work more, spend more, buy more. Consumerism working its way through into our mentality, teaching us to ‘need the machines’ rather than just want them.

And now they have everyone being dependent on these conveniences, they want to ration your usage. Which all neatly ties back to electricity. Being able to cook, travel, work, heat your home and basically live these days, all ties back to that. Not for all, some people still have fireplaces and wood burners and have kept in touch with what we now call ‘the old ways’. But not too long ago, all those things didn’t require monitors, meters or someone you’ve never met to dictate how much you are ‘allowed’. Like we have stumbled upon a bridge as the three Billy goats gruff, with the troll demanding a toll. And of course, we do still have toll bridges, and have to pay for the right to cross it. Just an invisible toll taker these days – funny isn’t it, the word toll is very similar to the word troll, isn’t it?

So while we wait for machines, and they wait for us, we also are kept waiting on a daily basis from getting on with our lives. Waiting for politicians to say what they are going do, then waiting for them to either not do them, or do the opposite. Being told of really ‘great ideas’ that are being proposed for the future, but hang on, you have to wait for those. So, patience is something that is quietly expected of us, to put up with being held back, held down and often yo-yoed to suit the needs of those politicians, rather than they and the systems they talk of suiting us, the people. And of course, not implementing all those systems seems to cost an awful lot of money. Just recently we have billions being removed from the NHS debt, billions being thrown at a test and trace program that has apparently disappeared into the ether, billions being wasted on the HS2 project that was a bodge job from the start. And further billions being given to foreign countries. And that is only in three years, so imagine how much they must have been hoarding to have those kinds of resources suddenly available. The decade of ‘austerity’ suddenly makes a lot more sense now, and as people have said, if they can give so much away and waste so much, they are simply taking too much. But with our conditioned tolerance for politicians, of lies and deceit, and of being robbed of time and money, I am left to wonder, how much is too much before something snaps?

(c) K Wicks

A Cap On Things

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I did wonder when watching Logans Run, and afterwards, about various things in the film. About how they ended up in a domed city with no knowledge of how it came to be. Of how there was one person outside, who grew old and was also completely unaware of how everything came to be as it was. And even unaware of the hidden city populated by many.

What was an interesting feature of the city, was that it revolved around a cap on the age limit of its population. 30 was the age you were allowed to get to, before a strange ritual which results in death, but is seen as an ascension of sorts by the population. No middle-aged people, no older people, no natural deaths it seems, or very few and a rather hedonistic and lazy society. Encouraged, monitored and controlled by a central computer system, keeping tabs on everything and eliminating curiosity when it did happen to appear.

Seems like a dream city to some, given what we have seen of 15-minute cities, restrictions, controls and various things of late. The idea that could give you an age limit for existing doesn’t seem so far off the beaten track anymore, does it? Because really, it’s got to be the holy grail of control in a way. While seeking eternal life, or the fountain of youth, I doubt it would be enough to just secure that for yourself. I expect anyone who gained that much knowledge and power, would definitely want to limit others access to it, or even chances of knowing it existed. But while you lived on for longer than would be expected, if others lived a long and fruitful life, they may see, or start to wonder why those in certain position didn’t seem to change like everyone else, or get ill, or suffer from the disease they decided to call ageing. But if they had found a way to halt the progression of life at a certain age for others, to maintain their own status, control and continuation, would they do it?

Whether we have a silent assassin amongst the populations now is still under debate, and without seeing anything first hand, I too still don’t really know if it’s true or not and only have online information to go on. But if we are going on the general chit chat of ‘the people’, it seems something is working its way through. A myriad of different problems, distractions, illnesses and drama. Some people saying yay, some saying nay, journalists arguing, doctors can’t agree, scientists’ parrot whatever their paymaster instructs, people mocking each other. Politicians playing musical chairs and gambling with people’s lives and futures, when all the while securing their own.

None of that bit is up for debate as far as I can tell, it’s clear and out there for everyone to see. Yet, no-one really knows where it goes and why. We are given ideas, agendas and plans to talk about and focus on to keep it moving towards something, without any real information being given to the ones who seem to be pivotal to it all working. Us. But is that because the plans aren’t really for the future they are creating, they are for us to think about now. And what comes later is something entirely different, and possibly will be dictated by whether the assassin is real, and whether it actually completes its mission. Because as they say ‘the best laid plans of mice and men’ and all that…

(c) K Wicks

Weekend

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I got to thinking about words again, and their meaning and usage, often being borrowed and adapted for other words or meanings, as we are told. This one may be obvious to many, but even I didn’t see it for ages. And it was thinking about days of the week, and wondering about the word week, to signify a five-day consecutive stretch ending in the all coveted ‘weekend’.

In my thought process, I likened it to the following, Week = weak, throughout those five days they drain you all week, using and taking your energy and time, and make you weak. Then we are taught to look forward to the weekend (or holidays), which funnily enough we have a saying for, to kind of show that we know we have been worn down, we say you need time off to ‘recharge your batteries’. Seems obvious now, doesn’t it? But for day six and seven of the allotted time frame, it’s the ‘weak-end’. The film The Matrix makes a point of saying we are batteries, used to power their machine and whole system. But unlike the rows and rows of pods plugged into a central point, sleeping and generating power, maybe there are different levels of it. Almost crossing into a Brave New World kind of scale. With some being low grade energy, therefore confined to the ‘factory’ pods. The ones walking around and ‘living’ generate a good amount, and there are others, who can utilise and create the vast amounts of energy generated through thought alone. With them wanting to have a 6g network powered by people being the antenna, it seems that could be more of a possibility that I had first considered. And I will admit, it all sounds rather unlikely, or at least it used to. And potentially all the things they talk of are just pie in the sky, and hopeful on their part, but there is also the possibility that it isn’t, and these things that sound crazy of the face of it, often don’t after you have put it in perspective. They do now talk of growing humans in pods too, taking women out of the whole reproduction cycle mostly, although that isn’t a surprise to me, I wondered how long before they took control of that process, seems like an awfully important power for someone to have. To create and give life, it really is quite something.

But as with everything, they never quite do what they say, and there is always an awful lot they aren’t telling you. I will refer you to the film The Island if you haven’t seen it, because it really does tie into this. Because while they tell you it is for just growing babies, to then be ‘born’ and put into society – what if some aren’t. What if they decide to have two factories, but one underground that you can’t see, where they grow them, allow them to be born, and then just put them straight into slavery, or use them for testing, or keep them in pods forever. Now, you may think that seems a bit dramatic and my imagination has run away with itself after watching too many films, and believe me, I wish it were that. But I will refer to my short article/YouTube vid which explains it in 60 seconds – A very disturbing idea, because once you know what they casually discussed all those years ago, it really does change your perspective, or at least should in my opinion.

With all the changes recently, it seems very much that everything we do as people is being quantified by usage, energy and your overall ‘footprint’ they would have you believe you are creating and leaving behind on the world. For the future generations they would have you believe that will be your legacy. But instead of being the problem for wanting a normal life, our problem is that we keep following the system that drains us of our energy. Having already been moulded into what they wanted; they now want something else. Net-zero. The opposite of the industrial revolution I guess, where we stop using innovation and logic, they have made their fortunes doing that. Now it’s time to make sure no-one else can, and that industry must stop altogether. Replaced with a fanciful idea and painfully weak ethos and completely lacking common sense and practicality. To us anyway, maybe not to them. Because if you wanted to scale everything back and treat people as the commodity you see them as, it seems a good place to start…

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