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The Three D’s of Conversion Under Coercion

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For the personality-transformers a major early objective is to destroy the identity using the three D’s of conversion under coercion. That way it is then much easier to ‘re-build’ or ‘repair’ that breakdown into what you consider a desired outcome.

Debilitation – keeping you in your house for weeks without a firm end date, taking away other essential functions for normality and threatening to take away things and people you love from your circle. Taking away your ability to earn money, live and survive.

Dread – made to feel it might go on forever but it constantly changes so you can’t get used to it, make it so that you won’t know when something will happen, topped off with worry of impending virus and death

Dependency – realising your fate lies with your captors, thinking that the only way to make them stop, or let you go, is to comply with them. You ‘hope’ it will get better.

And this is where hope can become a very misleading thought process. Because while you are sat back hoping for better, worse is appearing before your very eyes.

How some people don’t see it astounds me. The surveillance measures that are being proposed to deal with a strain of a virus which has a 99.7% survival rate (and in the UK the average of death with it is now older than the average age of death generally!), and is part of a group of viruses we have known about for quite some time, is just extraordinary. And now the hostility that appears to be happening online between generations of families is hurtful to behold. I have a very split family, with people disowning each other left right and centre going back decades, so I know it happens anyway. People are standing their ground, on both sides, and are willing to lose everything for it. But which side is right? They both think they are, but while they are squabbling with each other and now blaming, hating, accusing each other of various things – the true puppeteers of it all, must be laughing their heads off.

Shit stirrers we used to call them, and occasionally I used to be one in school, because I was bored and understood how easy it was to ’cause a ripple’ as they say. It was surprisingly easy to turn people against each other, or to start a rumour to see how fast it travelled round. But very quickly you grow out of that, you learn it’s called ‘playground tactics’ for a reason. Because for me, I decided that those were lessons in life, myself, in people and behaviour.

But now they are destroying family units, networks and generations of empathy and love – being distinguished and replaced with hate and contempt. I can’t help thinking it has become its own monster now, and will follow this path of destruction because that is what people do, or appear to have done. We do not just recognise and acknowledge the wrongness, we gravitate towards it, discuss it and indulge it. I can’t help thinking a speech in a recent movie I watched nailed it to me, it’s a corny film and I guess this speech is too, but it meant something to me and my thoughts of how much better we could be.

“Let’s imagine… if you glimpsed the future, you were frightened by what you saw, what would you do with that information? You would go to… the politicians, captains of industry? And how would you convince them? Data? Facts? Good luck! The only facts they won’t challenge are the ones that keep the wheels greased and the dollars rolling in. But what if… what if there was a way of skipping the middle man and putting the critical news directly into everyone’s head? The probability of wide-spread annihilation kept going up. The only way to stop it was to show it. To scare people straight. Because, what reasonable human being wouldn’t be galvanized by the potential destruction of everything they’ve ever known or loved? To save civilization, I would show its collapse. But, how do you think this vision was received? How do you think people responded to the prospect of imminent doom? They gobbled it up like a chocolate eclair! They didn’t fear their demise, they re-packaged it. It could be enjoyed as video-games, as TV shows, books, movies, the entire world wholeheartedly embraced the apocalypse and sprinted towards it with gleeful abandon. Meanwhile, your Earth was crumbling all around you. You’ve got simultaneous epidemics of obesity and starvation. Explain that one! Bees and butterflies start to disappear, the glaciers melt, algae blooms. All around you the coal mine canaries are dropping dead and you won’t take the hint! In every moment there’s the possibility of a better future, but you people won’t believe it. And because you won’t believe it you won’t do what is necessary to make it a reality. So, you dwell on this terrible future. You resign yourselves to it for one reason, because *that* future does not ask anything of you today. So yes, we saw the iceberg and warned the Titanic. But you all just steered for it anyway, full steam ahead. Why? Because you want to sink! You gave up! That’s not the monitor’s fault. That’s yours.”

But it almost seems as though we are confused, and the ideas they are pumping us full off are not in the right direction, are not from a place of peace and prosperity at all. They are from a greedy, selfish and controlling section of society who are introducing ever more startling and sinister forms of control. Once they separate us mentally and physically from each other and ‘hook’ us up to their creation, we may not have the choice of being ourselves anymore. And maybe the truth of the matter is that many people didn’t like themselves to begin with, so what they are offering does seem attractive. But time and perspective will deal people a cruel blow here, because it is only with those two will you know if you made the right choice for yourself, or if it was right to hand over all your choices to them. Letting them decide who you get to be.

Lots of people build their identity around their family, work, friends, interests. Through those things and time and experience, you usually find yourself or who you think you are and often can help in maintaining what people call, your sense of self. So take away those things, or change or restrict them, and to me you start to disrupt the sense of self, which then leads neatly into starting to tinker and tamper with identity and personality. Ending very deliberately in converting someone’s thought process to your desired outcome. Sometimes people don’t even know they are being coerced, it can be done very subtly. It usually starts to fall apart when other people question it though, which is why it is very important to keep people away from others (lockdowns, bubbles, restriction), or leads to anger and odd behaviour, because people can’t explain why they feel that way, they just do. I more than most do understand someone not having the language to articulate themselves to explain what they feel, that is different. When someone doesn’t have a coherent argument or valid point to dispute, they will often then get angry or annoyed, start calling names like mental or selfish, and try and use emotional blackmail to get their way. “If you don’t do this, then you cant…” because it is not just what they think they believe you are questioning, it is their very sense of self. Which can be quite unnerving when suddenly highlighted by mere words from another person. They think they are asking you a question – but in fact, the whole shell of the person has just started to crumble with that question, but they are unable to communicate that effectively.

I hope that people who are picking either side, are at least doing so with the full possession of what facts are available, and that you know without any doubt in your heart that you are right. That you have made up your own mind, whatever that may be, make sure they are your thoughts, your ideas and your conclusions. This is your life, and as far as I am aware, you only get one.

(c) K Wicks

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Films, Real Life Twisted or Just Fantasy

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It hasn’t escaped many people that what is happening today in society parallels many a story line or movie that has come out in the last four or five decades. When is it that art stops imitating life and life takes over the imitation? And when in that does it then become reality and stop being imitation at all?

You may or may not be familiar with these films, but they have popped back into memory into the last year and a half as relevant. I’m not sure how well this blog piece will turn out, as it’s not a review of these films, but rather an observation of them and what I took from them.

V for Vendetta – (2005) It seemed obvious to me that this was a pretext to a possible shift in society, personally though I had no idea it would be so very close to the truth. Apart from someone coming to save the day, those parts in films I worked out long ago were to make you sit back and wait for a hero, a saviour. So it didn’t have to be you. That’s where it is just fiction I am afraid. But you have to admit if you have watched it, there are starkly obvious warning signs that once at the whim of madness and personal agendas, sense and reason are dismissed and it takes a dark turn.

They Live – (1988) Oddly this film passed me by for many a decade until a few years ago. I thought it was great (not just for the rather long fight scene which was awesome), but by how revealing and again, obvious it was. I grew up knowing there was manipulation everywhere, marketing tactics and brainwashing techniques, but I learnt this from reading and seeing. And slightly of having the feeling that some ‘people’ really weren’t like me, at all. So that movie was a instant win for me, and seems many others noticed it too.

Enemy of The State – (1998) A look at how easy it is through means of monitoring and surveillance, to control, destroy or eliminate someone. And we are 20 years on from that film now, and we know they must have had various tech capabilities like that for a while before we ever get to see the mock version.

The Island – (2005) This is not a comfortable watch really. It’s one of my favourites, but the premise had me realising what we were really viewed as, and my fears of underground cities being populated by people who didn’t know they were captive, became visually represented in that movie. There will be a follow up blog to this one which will reference this movie again, and another on the list, and it is a true horror. And one talked about not in a movie, but in real life, by people in charge decades ago now.

Logans Run – (1976) Another one that passed by but was watched a few years ago. A controlled society where each person is given an expiry date of 30 years old, no questions, no good reasoning, but lots of effort put into maintaining the charade. Need I say more, I got the point of it very quickly.

X-Files Movie – (1998) The virus one. Strange discovery, a black liquid that is actually a virus and can manipulate its host. Sounds rather like graphene oxide now we know more about that, and the idea of an alien race either already being amongst us, or trying to assimilate us keeps popping up as a theme over and over. Make your own mind up on that, the jury is still out for me.

Book of Eli – (2010) A stark and bleak look at where we could easily be in only a generation. But the interesting things about that film, and a few others, is the non-explanation of what actually happened to cause everything to just stop or change. An event, a bright light, a catastrophe, and then the forthcoming collapse of society, but all very vague about what led to it, or a very quick montage, to make you think it happens overnight.

The Matrix – (1999) We all knew this would on the list, surely. And will be on the other post too, but for this one it’s going to be the concept which many related to. Of being trapped in the construct of society which is dictated by rules and systems. Some can and easily do navigate those systems being aware of them and not, and some people don’t or can’t. But it also tried to generalise reality and the human experience as something you can quantify and replicate. My experience has been that everyone appears to be living in their own version of reality first, and then we are all taking part in a second shared version of reality. Could be the second one is the matrix, but the first one is down to each person, dual reality.

Dark City – (1998) Quite out there for an idea, but a good one. Having your mind controlled and changed depending on what they want to study, having your environment constantly altered and sleep controlled. There is much more to it behind that though, which goes with the idea that we are not from where we have ended up. That we are searching for ourselves, well some of us are. The start of the film has him ‘waking up’, from the illusion, and for the longest time, despite all being part of it, others cannot see it.

Tank Girl – (1995) A simple yet effective film. It’s the future (set in only 2033) – and there is no water and what there is, is being controlled, by one corporation. Therefore, they control the people. It’s really that simple.

The Truman Show – (1998) Someone’s life moulded and controlled from birth. Made out to be a happy entertaining affair, that it’s ok to do that as long as millions are entertained and distracted from living their lives too. So many lives wasted. It’s a sad film to me. And I am part of that sadness for the number of times I watched it and wasted my own while doing it. I learnt of a study they did decades ago – where they separated triplets and had them adopted into different families so they could study nature versus nurture. They kept visiting each of them throughout their lives, keeping it a secret they had siblings. We know they do these things, but that doesn’t mean we have to agree with them or accept them as right. Here is a bit more info on that if interested – Three Identical Strangers.

Soylent Green (1973) – I haven’t actually seen this film, and only heard of it last year. Look it up, I get the feeling it should be on this list.

There are many others with a virus storyline, or of societal control and we know these are not new concepts at all. But what is new is to see them roll out into reality, in real time. Not condensed into an hour and a half, with no pause button, no off switch or end in sight. When I watched films and thought of the idea, I had not considered they would all happen at once, overlayed, so that elements of each would appear. Now I feel foolish to have not considered it, it seems so obvious. It’s a long-drawn-out odd state of affairs, and it’s anyone’s guess which road it will go down from here.

Quote and mask image from V for Vendetta

(c) K Wicks

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Speak no evil, see no evil, hear no evil

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Sometimes we are drawn to things, or things are drawn towards us, I’m not entirely sure which it is. But it is down to the individual to decide whether they have meaning and what that is. I grew up thinking things just happened, that we do not have a fate or a destiny, and that it’s all random. And to a point, it’s still my belief, but along the way it seems there may be a semblance or order to it, that co-incidences are no such thing, and there is something behind it all that cannot quite be put into words.

An object such as the one in my photograph, was a feature of my young childhood. My father had one just like it, slightly bigger and not as worn, but three brass monkeys. I loved them and had a general love of ornaments and trinkets, but mainly because they represeneted and meant something to me. Having understood hyperphantasia a bit more over the last few years, I have worked out why I got so attached to things, almost to the point of hoarding or obsession at finding them again. The object has with it a memory of a feeling or emotion, sometimes attached to another person, or just about my own thought process at the time. That can create a strong attachment, if not kept in check. But brass ornaments have been a bit feature for me, my mother also collected brass and I have continued. But only because i associate them with her and my childhood. I knew they were cheap really, but to me they looked like gold, and i used to take great delight in polishing it to make it as shiney as I could. It made me happy seeing it clean.

At first I just thought I was trying to replace something lost from childhood, to hold to nostalgia of something long gone. And I was. But when I really gave thought to the why, I was suprised it wasn’t about remembering my mother or father at all (both of which haven’t been around for quite some time). But instead it was about me, remembering things that brought me comfort, or interest, or joy. I had a rather strained and dysfunctional upbringing, so when I did have a nice feeling or nice moments, I remembered them, replayed them when necessary to see me through. Sometimes we need courage, strength and moral conviction – and it may seem odd to some people that it could come from a trinket or object. But these things don’t give us the strength, they remind us that the strength was within us all along. I understand this now.

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Who Really Knows Where It Goes?

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I don’t know where this is all going. It’s all speculation from people like me at this point, although we may have been right about a great number of things so far, doesn’t mean we know. And we want to be wrong more than you would believe. But what currently takes my thought, is the unfolding drama surrounding adverse reactions to the newly created drug and rather elaborate and desperate push for it. I made my decision last April I would not be partaking in their trial to test what they called, a brand-new drug to treat a brand-new illness. From the start things didn’t add up for me, and despite a terrible virus being one of my very real fears throughout my life, this one wasn’t as it appeared. Because appearances can achieve an awful lot without actually having to do. Often people like to be seen to do things rather than actually do them, and I have never liked this and try to see through it where I can.

Like I said, many things didn’t add up – I started paying attention in January 2020, as soon as the first ‘Chinese Whispers’ started to filter through. And very quickly it became apparent to me that this was not a random event, or a natural virus. It became clear it was a carefully crafted, scripted, funded and enacted scheme with many players and goals taking shape. But the pawns in it would be us, the people on the ground, the public. But to get to us, I knew they would need to use what I call the middle services group, who are us, but they work for them. Under the guise of regulations and licenses they control that section of society (I am one too working in finance, reporting data to the HMRC and telling people what taxes to pay – it’s my job and it pays my bills, but I feel like a traitor doing it). People like civil servants, the police, doctors, medical staff, transport sectors, council, etc. But how much they control them has been revealed – they can shut you down and stop you being capable of earning money and feeding your family. Whereas previously you only had to worry about getting ill, or an unforeseen circumstance befalling you, you would have turned to someone else for help maybe. There is now a new worry, someone might sneeze 100 miles away, and suddenly your whole life is shut down and taken away from you. In fact, everybody’s life, stopped. You can still breath and function obviously, but ‘living’ becomes existing and at the whim and mercy of a bunch of people who ironically, your taxes pay for. Politicians – because whoever is really pulling their strings is unknown, so the buck stops with them as far as we see. They are the ones who have put into place these bizarre nonsensical draconian measures, for the purpose of ruining the economy and everyone’s health. Yet they apparently have done it for everyone’s health? And that is where it looks like a rather blatant lie. Of which there have been many.

Next in line for the glaringly obvious, must be the death rates. Last year, when the ‘pandemic’ hit, we had a rather steady death rate of the elderly in hospitals and care homes. To be expected with a virus such as this. But at the time, it still didn’t add up to me, the figures were being fudged from the start and the articles that were coming out seemed to show a pattern. If there was an infection, they discharged them quickly into a care home, and sounded the alarm that they had a bunch of cases. Then it appears a strange and orchestrated effort between the then health secretary, care home managers and NHS staff, to slap DNR’s on people, administer Midazolam, put on ventilators unnecessarily and to finish them off in line with whatever target they had been given. They needed a certain number over a short period to give the impression of an illness ‘sweeping’ through the elderly. In my previous piece It Looked Sinister I cover why it doesn’t look good from the perspective of someone on the outside.

As the year went on their odd mask mandates started long after the illness seemed to simmer down. Another thing I refused to do from the start, entertain the mask thing. Personally, I need all my airways clear to breath, I don’t feel as though I am getting enough oxygen otherwise, but that’s just me. I don’t judge anyone for wanting to wear one, but I also understand about bacteria and what kind of environment they like to multiply in, so knew it would be a pass from me. And I only knew one person in the entire time that caught the illness, and he recovered within a few weeks, and had some fatigue after. Oddly enough, just like the flu. So the year rumbles on and the talk of the vaccine and roll out dates start. I decided I knew where this is going, and speculated as much on twitter, but stuck with my original assessment that I would be steering well clear of their medication. My theory was that it will mess with the immune system and cause a crash response, leaving the body undefended against basic illnesses. What appears to be happening is far worse than I could have speculated. I did not know enough about proteins and blood to know what would happen, but once I did read up on it based on the reaction I was reading about, I was horrified and more than concerned.

Last winter looked like flu took a leave of absence for a year, weirdly they couldn’t manage to come up with any flu deaths, at all. Despite this apparently killing upwards of 60,000 people each year. Yes, that many. And we never shut down before did we? Even though we know flu can be a killer of the elderly. Like I said. Odd. It appeared I may have been right at the beginning when I said they have ‘borrowed’ flu deaths and rebranded it for purpose. So far I haven’t seen any evidence to the contrary. People also used to die of other things, but they too all seemed to just stop. Anyone who died with a hint of a coronavirus was branded as a CV death. Even heart attacks, strokes, tumours, car accidents, old age etc. Just to make this clear in case you were weren’t aware,

“Scientists first identified a human coronavirus in 1965. It caused a common cold. Later that decade, researchers found a group of similar human and animal viruses and named them after their crown-like appearance. Seven coronaviruses can infect humans.”

So when they are testing for coronavirus, they are testing you for a common cold. This new strain hasn’t been isolated as far as I am aware, so we aren’t really sure what they think they are testing for, but guess what, they are finding it. In everyone, with no illness or symptoms. Look at the havoc that has caused. But they were the first step to cause confusion and fear. They needed people to be willing to roll up their sleeves for this cocktail they were about to unleash. What it does is awful enough, but the ingredients too are very unpalatable – at least to me anyway. Monkey kidney cells, aborted foetal tissue and all sorts of other things I am better of not knowing and keeping away from. So, they start to roll out their drug. Instantly it looked like care home deaths went up again, sharply, in line with them being the first group. It looked like another cull at first, but slowed to a steady pace, by which time they had already turned their attention to a younger group. And so the bait and switch began – where they promise your freedom and right to work, if only another million get jabbed, it’s only another age group, it’s only another few weeks. It’s only to save the NHS. The needs and demands changed rapidly and set their sights on each group in turn. Until soon everyone blamed each other for holding everyone else back. Then they started to nudge and encourage bullying of unvaccinated people, a bit of extra coercion where people had sussed them. And while they were all fighting amongst themselves, and worrying for their livelihood and future, they came for the children. Conveniently, they have decided to not report anyone dying of a vaccine reaction if it occurs within 14 days, because they say it doesn’t become effective for that long. Always changing the goalposts the targets to fit their criteria, rather than the facts at hand.

Whether it’s true or not, and you believe the rumours that the ‘medicine’ contains things that are a ticking timebomb, each person must decide for themselves. I have weighed up what I consider to be my personal risk of adverse reaction against the risks of said virus. I would rather take my chances with the virus and stay as far away from the medical profession as I can. I know more about my own immune system and it’s abilities than someone who has never met me, and clearly doesn’t have my best interests at heart.

A new mindset has now moved in though, and one that was maybe only previously reserved for my fiction and disaster stories. Where you know people are going to die, lots of them. Yet you have to keep walking around them for months, years, knowing it’s coming and you can’t warn anyone or do anything about it, the disaster unfolds as it was meant to. As a writer, I don’t get to know where the story goes until I get there, it reveals itself to me as a write it, but if we could on this one, would we skip to the end page just to know how it all ends?

(c) K Wicks

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It looked sinister…

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Slightly updated to add in some sources to back up these observations, I understand it won’t be nice for anyone who hadn’t previously noticed or considered some of the issues being highlighted here. But I have no doubt it may still be perceived as ‘conspiracy talk’ to some.

We can’t be sure at this point, but A Chain Of Events seemed to unfold. Some saw it as a warning of what was to come, and theorised what would happen.

I will explain from my point of view, I don’t speak for others.

Last year, only a week before official lockdown was declared, covid was downgraded to a non highly infectious disease on the gov website.

In the same month, they suddenly suspended the 1902 cremation act. This act was put in place to make sure two doctors had to sign off on death certificates. That is what led to Harold Shipman being caught. So I was concerned when I noticed that had been suspended.

Then they restricted access to care homes and visits by family and loved ones. No-one would be able to see if anything untoward was occurring. There have been reports since of that time, of hundreds of people being left to die of dehydration during the first lockdown. Not a nice way to go, and completely avoidable. – Link to article detailing this

Then there was the ventilators drive. I did not like the high mortality rate once the ventilators got involved, and it was a big fear factor in the propaganda. Evidently it turns out that they shouldn’t have used them for so many. Article here As well as what seems to be a directive from somewhere to put DNR’s (Do Not Resuscitate) orders on people without consent. Not just the elderly, even just for people with learning disabilities. Article here.

In recent months we have learnt that huge quantities of Midazolam was ordered and administered, of which the side affects are breathing problems and is used as a heavy sedative and as end of life drugs.

And we can’t forget the dancing nurses in empty hospitals, barricades to stop the public. To ‘save the nhs’. That phrase has become a sick joke, that we the people are here to serve and save the very institution we have paid into our whole lives. That it can and is being weilded as an instrument of ransom and intimate control over peoples lives is disturbing.

And still now, they have doomed thousands if not millions to a fate of pain and worry by cancelling everything routine ‘just in case’. They have already dismantled the NHS as you knew it and it just seems like a weapon of control and a cash cow. It just seems a formality that they haven’t announced it yet. I do not doubt that there are good people within it, but does not appear to be any who run it or use it against us. They have turned against their oath of do no harm and instead been taken by money, stats and targets. We are starting to see and hear some troubling reactions to the speedy roll out of a rushed and experimental drug. Only time will tell if we are right to be worried and if any justice will be had.

I was not born to save the NHS, none of us were, yet this is the repeated narrative and given reason for everything these days. It was never about health and that much has been made obvious by the way they have ignored existing health problems and created a whole set of new ones.

It was a chain of events, spelling out that something nefarious has played out in front of us. Maybe I’m wrong, and those things are all coincidences. Like all the other things…

(c) K Wicks

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You’re Not Alone

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It’s been quite a lonely life, knowing things and working things out. Before this episode, I knew people were switched off, didn’t want to know and were actively ignoring the world around them and how it came to be that way. It separated me and I accepted that. Conversations became difficult and only about what they had the capacity to discuss, no further. I guess it was frustration that led me to step back from interactions, socialising and general engagements, they became pointless and felt like a waste of time. And maybe that is the point perhaps. Most people are just bumbling through life, wasting time. Wiling away the days and hours to just get to the end. It seems such a waste, when there is so much to say, do, think and be.

I really wasn’t sure there were many out there, ones who actually shared my views and interests and came to similar conclusions or questions as I had.

Now I know. The number is far greater than I could have imagined or hoped for. There are many who are on the same path of thought, ones who do stand for justice, and fighting for what is right. Because it is not just a belief or a knowing we have, it is an idea and an unshakeable undeniable feeling that drives us on. That we can be more than we are, and better than we are, that we can strive to be the best versions of ourselves.

So, when faced with darkness, corruption, manipulation and the insane demands of mad men and women, we are compelled to act, to speak, and to try to warn others. It appears the very fabric of society and the nature of humanity is being tampered with by nefarious entities for purposes currently unconfirmed. I’m not sure that can really be denied by anyone at this stage.

We must not give up on ourselves, or we won’t be ourselves anymore…

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Monitoring

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It really has snowballed hasn’t it? Within a very short time we have gone from going about our business and daily lives, to having most aspects of it blindsided.

Years ago, only mere decades, people used cash so most of the transactions weren’t noted. Debit cards came in which started to pull it all together. We didn’t have smart tv’s or meters, no tracking devices on cars, no CCTV, no mobile phones. On the face of it, introducing all those things appeared to make life easier. For you to monitor yourself and use those things to save time and hassle.

But the purpose has switched. All of that now traps us, monitors us, and will ultimately it seems, be used against us. Everything moving online, including medical appointments is the worst thing we could have done. And I know it seems silly to think any one person alone would be interesting in their usage of things or what they spend or eat. But with that they know how to get to you, and collectively they can manipulate things. Knowledge is power as they say.

They also do not appear to be making a secret of a social credit score scheme rolling out, similar to another country recently mentioned in the media a lot. But let’s be honest, we have a class system in this country going back centuries which used to be your social credit score, then we introduced credit cards and a credit rating. Sounds like a credit system to me. And we blithely accepted that one without question. Keen to ‘earn points’ by being in debt, and jumping through financial hoops to be good enough to lend money to so you can take part in society.

What seems to be coming is a levelled-up version of that. But the way it is being intermingled with the current agenda, I have suspicions of how intrusive it will end up being. My piece on Cash and the incoming cashless society touched upon this, but I will go further and piece together what I see.

The roll out of fitbit and apple watches to monitor your heartbeat and vitals. Exercise bikes in the home fitted up to a central system that knows you are exercising. Smart fridges that can be controlled by something somewhere. Points and incentives already for shopping where they encourage you to. Sounds like a credit system and monitoring to me, but we invited it, signed up to it and didn’t notice when they changed the rules. (I don’t have any of the above, because of where I see it going, when I say we, I talk of the collective). They are already talking of ‘incentives’ to make you lose weight and live healthier by their standards. So let’s examine what that means. In my mind, to monitor someone on that, you have to have them log in every morning, noon and night, fill in what they eat, they drink and what they do in a day. Sounds a bit intrusive doesn’t it? Well, how else would they know? They have proved they don’t trust the public one bit to make their own decisions or run their own lives.

So, picture it. You wake up, sign into your app, do your exercise, eat what they say, you get your points for the day or approval rating for your transaction. Then the next day the same, but after a week or so they decide they need to know more information. They suspect you are eating things while you are out and not reporting them, so they install a urine monitor. Every morning, noon and night, you now have to give them a sample, to prove that you are complying. They lock your fridge once you have gone over your allotted calorie intake for the day. They restrict your card so you can’t buy food while out. They insist it is to keep you healthy, but you end up hungry, stressed, sneaking around and unhappy. But they know better than you right?

You might think that is a far-fetched scenario, and for the sake of where we are, I genuinely hope you don’t. Because is there really any difference in recent talks of making people film themselves taking harmful, inaccurate and costly tests at home, to prove they are complying? It’s a slippery slope and one we are already on and picking up speed at an alarming pace. When they start interfering in where you can go, who you can see and what you can say should have been the first warning. It will be followed by what you can wear, what you can eat, how much you can weight. Because you know, save the NHS, or whatever crisis they invent to serve their purpose. Just imagine the worst, most vindictive, controlling, hateful and unreasonable parent in the world, calling all the shots in your life, for the rest of your life. Making the most outrageous demands, stopping you doing things you enjoy just because they like depriving you of things. Now, translate that to who oversees us currently. No-one should have more right over your body than you. Full stop. You can try and use the selfish argument, I hear it a lot, but is it not the height of selfishness to force and coerce someone to do something because you want them to. Demanding and selfish in fact. “I want you to do something to keep me safe” – I and me used there. Says more about the person demanding and the person not bending to it. Keeping someone else happy is not more important than my own safety, health and wellbeing.

I would just ask that everyone take a good long hard look around them. Really see these systems for what they are, understand what they intend to do with them, and how that will change things going forward. I do not wish for things to always remain the same or go back to the way they were, I’m not afraid of progress when it is required and logical and think we should be an adaptive species. But we are being steered by very wilful, controlling people who have wanted to and have been enacting their ideas and agendas for quite some time. If you can work your way through all the smokescreens, lies and diversions, it is there in plain sight. And it isn’t pretty…

Another possibility of where this monitoring may lead and what they may be viewing us as, my later article – Perhaps

Photo from the book The People Shapers by Vance Packard.

(c) K Wicks

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Security

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That word means different things to different people. But for this purpose, it is in relation to how you feel personally in your life. A personal sense of security. What is it in life that makes you feel secure, and the opposite, insecure. To define these things can help somewhat when you are trying to navigate your life and growing up, at any age. You don’t stop growing up just because you get older, quite the opposite. It really is a constant work in progress.

It can be an issue trying to achieve this feeling – because that’s all it is, a feeling of security. We live in a perilous world at the mercy of nature and man alike, so security is in the eye of the beholder. The situation can be the same for two people, yet they feel completely differently about it, that is why it is personal to each individual. And others can affect your security without even knowing it.

We live in a society where we are told what to be afraid of, from a very young age, it is not down to us to learn or decide, we are told. But instinctually, we need to learn these things for ourselves, it’s how we discover part of who we are. Fear can be a big factor, here is a previous post I have written on it taken from the chapter on fear from my book about Hyperphantasia and Aphantasia (Fear – Meeting in the Middle of Nowhere). We even have departments for National Security, obviously the words and image behind it is a powerful one. Keeping the nation safe and secure, and over the years, that same institution has told us what to fear, because let’s be honest, with nothing to be afraid of, it wouldn’t have a purpose would it?

Security can be wrapped up in all sorts of things, money, employment, housing, relationships, as well as the so-called threat of nature. A lack of one of these things can indeed upset the applecart of this feeling. Not even a lack of, just the perception in fact that one of these things may be taken away, or could happen can destabilise someone. People are different, this we know, but do we really take into account each person’s threshold for things? What may be exciting to one, can be terrifying to another. What may seem like danger to one, is adventure to the other. We all have different triggers, internal alarms and reasoning, but we are also prone to emotions, feelings and environment. The pressure of society is actually an all-encompassing one which we are thrust into from birth, and the expectation of everyone to just ‘fit in’ is a bizarre one to me and I can easily see why we appear to have so many problems. I thought people were the problem for years, and that the system was broken. But now I believe differently, the system isn’t broken at all, it was designed to be like this. To make people conform and comply, to mould them into what is required. It’s odd when I gave it thought, real thought. I started from the beginning- a rather quick timeline to follow, but you’ll get the point hopefully.

School – starts at a very young age, putting children into rooms and forcing them to memorise things and stay indoors for long period of time, often sitting still, and now with a rather sinister twist, staying away from each other. It’s a very ordered regimented system for people to start out. Most of your daily hours spent in this environment surrounded by not your kin, restricted from your natural impulses and taught how to behave. Obviously, I know why, so they can churn out ready to work adults who are ‘prepared’ for the outside world. But one which they created. It’s no wonder to me that many people it turns out do not fit the mould, don’t want to be part of their ‘vision’ for people. Government and ruling bodies have a purpose, but it is not to make sure you live a full and happy life. That should be down to you, but they are more there as sinister overlords who steer society in the direction they want it to go. Because they are not seeking a full and happy life, if they were they wouldn’t be hell bent on causing so much grief and pain.

But in the decades that followed the strict school regime being implemented upon children, it was becoming obvious that it wasn’t really working entirely, they still had the ‘rogue element’ which was disruptive enough to make them decide that the next phase of control should be rolled out. You know, for safety and security. And obviously for profit, with pharmaceutical companies leading the way, and doctors rolled it out, using teaching staff as the conduit. Seems like a well-tested formula they knew would work again. Below is a page from The People Shapers regarding this. Awful to think spirited children with high energy levels who didn’t want to be in a box all day were branded unruly and drugged, awful, but not surprising.

For me security is maybe different from others, I do not see the government or extensions of government as there for my protection or for my safety. They have done a number of questionable things to their own people as well as the trail of horrors the UK has littered around the world. Many experiments have been conducted on the unsuspecting British public for decades, which we only get to hear about when they finally get exposed. Here is one that I found disturbing – Germ Warfare Tests on the British Public.

So, when they say they are trying to ‘protect’ me, excuse me if I don’t believe a word they say. I will make up my own mind, based on what I know and what I have seen. They try to use fear to get compliance, so while scaring the public into believing another country would drop chemicals on them, they secretly did it themselves. Then years later tell them, so they were scared at the time, just of the wrong thing. And then it breeds mistrust and fear to think your government would do it again and could be doing it right now. That is a form of psychological warfare, which unfortunately we are now all too familiar with personally as we have been bombarded in what seems to be a very co-ordinated attack on our very being. Joy is being eliminated from life, something that I believe is really quite pivotal to a state of balance and wellbeing. Without that life can become hopeless, and that seems to be the general feeling they are shooting for, without noticing that we aren’t up for that. And quite frankly, people weren’t designed for misery, we are being herded towards it and numbed through various mediums for it.

People have all sorts of motives behind what they say and do, and understanding them should be key. I get a sense of security from not having to question my instinct, although I will always question its reasoning. I don’t need others to validate my opinion, I don’t seek approval for what I know or believe and am not offended in any way if someone believes otherwise. I don’t tell anyone how to behave or live, but would ask that you take the time to just give a bit of thought to your own motives and reasoning for things if you haven’t already. And if you are ok with everything being as it is and you see no problem with the construct of society, then maybe there is nothing for you to reflect on. But if you have noticed that something isn’t quite right, that this isn’t how we were meant to be, then follow that thought…

(c) K Wicks

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Brexit and decisions

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I have not discussed this subject much, despite is being around now for six years. I have seen and heard both sides of the argument, the hatred and name calling. The fierce fight between the two factions to be vindicated in their choices and decisions. To make sure it is used at every possible chance for a slur, put down or justification for something. I don’t know how others genuinely think or feel about it, apart from my own family. So like my other posts, I will share my thoughts and opinion on it.

I voted to leave the EU. During my adult voting life I have not stuck to one party, having voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time. Depending on which candidate was purporting to be able to implement the right changes the the area, community and country that were needed at the time. We pick ‘the best of a bad bunch’ as they say. But for Brexit, it was different, there were foreign policies to understand and way more material to digest than for previous votes. I tried my best to be informed, I watched the news like everyone else, trying to gauge the for and against arguments. I felt a heavy weight with that vote – I knew it was important and would change many things, but I felt that in the right hands, it would be the best for this country. I spoke to my grandpa to ask him about pre EU Britain and to get another opinion from someone who was there and paid attention at the time. I won’t lie, I was influenced by others, the media and what I thought I knew.

I had lived in Germany and Cyrpus and visited France, Switzerland, Turkey and Holland by that point, so thought I had a good grasp and experience of where and what we were discussing. Turns out you can never know enough when making decisions for millions of people. And after we voted to leave and it was decided, I moved to Spain, for a chance to experience what had been available for decades and was about to be taken away. I did feel sad for what we had done, but it also still felt like the right thing to do. I spent two years in Spain, then came back to the UK, knowing it couldn’t work out and it had a deadline.

Now, in retrospect and with hindsight, I would have still voted to leave, but wished it would have happened so much sooner, with better preparation and to be done in grown up way. The idea of the EU being a friendly group of countries helping each others was just that, an idea and a fanstasy that never came to fruition, just no-one wanted to admit it. Instead it was hijacked from the very start to be a controlling force over European countries, to make them ‘fall in line’ and be puppeteered. We were all misinformed and are being led by grossly incompetant people who want money and power and are being led by their ego, not by common sense. So it was never going to work.

But it has made me realise how little I really knew about it all before I voted. My own fault, the information was there and readily available, I could have been better informed, would the result have been different for me? No. But I would have understood the consequences and implications of it a bit better. I don’t deride anyone for their vote or decisions, and realise that was part of it from the beginning, to make sure we are split by opinions and keep both sides fighting, because while we were busy being distracted by that, something else was neatly wheeled in to take over.

(c) K Wicks

Work ethic and employment

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I have wanted to work since I was a child. I saw that work gave you money, and money gave you freedom to live. Understanding of course that freedom was not free, you have to earn it, buy it and maintain it. And fully believed that if you didn’t work, you would starve. I had no idea until almost a teenager that benefits were a thing. My mindset was that I should be as helpful and productive as possible, to give myself the best chance of survival. Of course, life gets in the way of whatever you think you will be, or what you want to happen. And it did. I had a rough patch for a few years from mid to late teens and I had to drop out of school and mainstream education. No exams. which of course made me think, no future. It was the mid 90’s, there a big drive for people to go to university, student loans took off and suddenly there were all sorts of courses to do and it was made accessible to people from all walks of life as they put it.

But it didn’t appeal to me for many reasons. Firstly, I did not have a subject that I was taken with at that age, I liked so many things it was hard to narrow it down to just one. I was very good at drawing at the time, so got talked into trying art college. I lasted 6 months, and of that my attendance was shocking. I did not like the relaxed setting for learning, and it was too corporate for feeling creative. Although I met some really sound people, it struck me that most of them were just wasting a couple of years by being there. To take the pressure off so their family didn’t hassle them to decide on uni. It started to become more interesting to question people on their motivations for choices, and where they hoped those decisions might lead them. Studying art felt like a complete waste of time. Because that was not what I wanted to do as a career. It looked like a very hard and thankless job ‘the struggling artist’ perception. Luckily, I do it for enjoyment now, because it really doesn’t pay the bills for me despite having created quite a portfolio of drawings, paintings, photography, books and designs.

It dawned on me though, that many people of my age group were getting themselves unneccessarily in debt, on the whim of having a degree in something, whether it would be useful or not. So I looked at that as the starting point, why did everyone want them? I’ll use my own family experience, my grandparents on one side went to University, and fully believed that if you had a degree it would mean you would be guaranteed employment. Because I think in their day, that is how it was. I held my ground and said no, a degree was not needed. Four years out of the job market when I already felt behind was not going to suit me at all, got to get on and all that, and why would you want to start so far in debt, it made no sense to me. Within a few years and a great number of jobs later, I found myself working in recruitment. Helping people find work and prepare their CV’s and understand their skills to assist placing them.

What I found were a couple of prevailing attitudes. Firstly, the worn down type, who seemed to realise their situation of extreme debt, limited jobs in their chosen field and the reality of life after uni. The other was the self-entitled one, the “I have a degree and I wont work for under £15.00 per hour”. Which is fine to have that attitude, it really is and may work in some walks of life. But when there is work available for £8.50 per hour, and you have no skills or experience for the higher rate job, you have to start somewhere. So maybe it was a good thing that I have had jobs in finance, catering, property, care homes, recruitment, pubs, and markets. That I got myself experience in all sorts of industries and with all sorts of people from different backgrounds. And even though I may be doing ok at the moment having worked really hard for it, I still might end up cleaning toilets again for £5.00 per hour, because you really don’t know what life may throw at you, but having a ‘let’s gets on, can do’ attitude can possibly help along the way.

Aside from all that, I understand we are now in very odd times for employment. Many jobs and futures have been taken away or restricted of late, automation seems to be moving in where it can and what was once a sound career may now need revisiting. In this we may have to come up with new ideas and ways forward for peple, to keep things moving and progressing at a pace that includes everyone and can be maintained.

(c) K Wicks