A reading of my article – Water Ways
(c) K Wicks
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Living On The Edge – article reading
How Much Will You Entertain?
We entertain the fact we are being entertained. But it is no longer a relaxing jaunt, it’s become a full-on roller coaster of drama, horror and shock. Demonic, inhumane and relentless.
So how much is too much? Some of my other articles have touched on their methods and understanding of saturating our senses. Overloading us and trying to dismantle what is, and replace it with whatever that have deemed ‘better’. And using screens and technology has only made the reach bigger, but it seems that it almost can’t keep up with itself now. As if the script isn’t authorised entirely, not all the actors are holding the attention anymore, or aren’t good enough to carry on convincing people as they once did.
We are capable of filtering the mindless and endless stream of doom, if we choose. But many are so used to something else thinking for them, maybe they have forgotten how to? Or are lazy and don’t want to. And deciding what you take in takes effort and means being aware of what you are exposing yourself to. Not everyone appears to want or like that level of active participation in your own life and decisions. Instead preferring the idea that someone else has a manual for your feeling and experiences, and you should go to them for help, guidance and assistance in all life related matters. Just so you know, they don’t have that manual, because there isn’t one. But it makes for a ‘safe feeling’ to think there is one. Because it can honestly be quite scary for a moment, when you realise everyone else is making it up, or bumbling through as best they can.
So, all these tricks and traps of society, and having to navigate and factor in procedures, systems and other people fantasies, feelings and wants for the future gets a bit much. Seemingly just here to fulfil rich people’s ideas and ideals, pawns and cannon fodder for a rather elaborate cyclical game. Rinse and repeat, depress and dictate. It’s a strange bind we are in now though, where you want to ignore them and their grandiose plans, but as you are being factored into those plans, notice must be taken. But is it your attention that is required first, followed by thoughts, then feelings ending up nicely with a reaction. Which is what they want. Looking for somewhere to direct the frustration, or fear, or anger, they know it won’t get to go where it is needed. So it stays, unresolved and misdirected in the daily routine of just trying to live and get by. And perhaps they have come to rely on our instinctual responses, while simultaneously trying to quash and remould them, while we also upgrade or revisit them as needed. Working on old, outdated models of our behaviour too, trying to keep up with analysing what they are trying to influence, but it does feel as though it has taken a different turn, and one perhaps that was not foreseen or predicted. We shall see…
(c) K Wicks
Turning It On – article reading
A Manual Adjustment – article reading
Kangaroos – article reading
A Turning Point
It seems that much has been implemented, changed, updated, and revised over the years. Various Acts and Laws, regulations, and rules to guide, coerce, and force society to adapt. This piece converges at a point just after the turn of the 20th century, 1902.
And how this piece came to be was from reading about ADHD and when it was identified. Turns out it was observed by Sir George Frederic Still, in 1902. He described it as “an abnormal defect of moral control in children.” Sounds quite vague in my mind, but it’s a start.
Another interesting thing happened in that year, which I think may be important.
“The Biologics Control Act was formed. It included the regulation of vaccine and antitoxin producers and required both licensing and inspections of manufacturers. The standards imposed by the 1902 Act resulted in bankruptcy for one-third of the company’s manufacturing antitoxins and vaccines while benefiting the manufacturers already in compliance. Ten firms held licenses with the Laboratory of Hygiene following the 1902 Act.”
Perhaps an early power move, taking out lots of competition with convenient regulations, and making sure the rest do as they are told. Or face bankruptcy. Money again being the greaser of the wheels with incentives and punishments alongside it to guarantee the result they require.
Another thing that happened in that year, was the 1902 Cremation Act. Paving the way for many a crematorium to be built and utilised, and it may well be that it was simply a tool to be able to ‘manage the dead’ and all that. But it could also be a good way to start disposing of what could later be considered as evidence. Roll out a substance, watch the devastating effects and study them for more efficient ways to cripple and maim people, and then be there to offer the ‘services’ needed to deal with the fallout. Like all the institutions it seems, create the problem, then appear to be the saviour with a solution. Clearly the obvious one would be not to cause it in the first place, but industry and consumerism have no place for avoidance. Their whole existence is to consume and control people, time, resources and all areas of business and life. Inserting themselves into your daily routine and life, and now trying to make that intrusion even more intimate. Schooling, relationships, work, health and every other function that gets us through life, they wanted to be a part of, and now want control of. They also introduced an Education Act in that same year and abolished school boards, and replaced them with local authorities. Seems a lot went on in the UK that year, only a year on from Queen Victoria passing, and moving from the Victorian era into our brief Edwardian one.
It seems they are very skilled at causing the problem, creating a label and then design the standard you want everyone to fall short on, so you can then ‘fix them’. Thereby giving rise to a very easy situation of being able to decide whatever you want to be wrong with people. Or take something that people naturally are, and decide that is wrong, or not ‘normal’, keeping in mind sometimes the people deciding what is normal, aren’t themselves. So, I believe we have to have a shared, agreed upon version of normal, which unfortunately has also been commandeered. For a clear purpose, and one which may be explained slightly in my article Consumerism, showing how they spend billions of dollars over decades to create a certain mindset in people and societies. And before that, centuries of various laws and regulations herding people into places and industries, forcing the people to comply with what the ‘Captains of Industry’ decided. Covered a bit in A Working Strategy, but shows how where we are now, really has been a long time coming…
(c) K Wicks
Words and Meaning – article reading
If You Like To Read…
There is plenty to choose from if you would like to have a little read.
You can find my articles on a range of subjects here – Thoughts
A fictional book about the psychology and thought process of a stalker – The Willing Observer.
A number of my Short Stories from my published books are availble to read for free if you like something a little creepy.
The first chapters from two of my novels – keeping along the lines of creepy.
Observational poetry with Rhyming Reason
And my non-fiction book looking at the differences between Aphantasia and Hyperphantasia – currently in rewrites.
(c) MKW Publishing
A Rather Dark Enterprise
Go back, from where we are now, tracing a path from there to here. With gaps and unknowns of course, but I can’t help thinking they are more linked than I at first believed.
Mentioned in my article A Working Strategy, but only briefly as a side point, now I look at it in more detail. The Foundling Hospitals. At first I had just thought they had one in London, but it seems there were others. And I revisit this subject, as it would seem in these modern times too, children have and are being used as objects of experiment.
That comment coming to mind from Willard Graylin, a noted head of bioethics, who proposed the Warehouses of the Living Dead, to house bioemporuims of living cadavers. Where people could be spare body parts, being kept ‘alive’ by way of machines and respirators. Saying that by introducing those warehouses, they would no longer need to use prisoners, volunteers or mentally retarded children. Yes, implying that they already had a system of harvesting body parts from them. Horrifying and is covered a bit more in my article Perhaps.
But back to the Foundling hospital, the first one actually being in Dublin, Ireland in 1704. Strangely the two purposes of this being established was ‘to avoid deaths and murders of illegitimate children and to teach the Protestant faith’. Sounds quite weird and the opposite when you read how it went in the long term.
“Child deaths during transport to the hospital or whilst staying in the hospital were not infrequent”
And for some rather alarming stats on that, the words ‘not infrequent’ being an understatement. Constant would be more truthful.
“Between 1790 and 1796, some 5,216 infants were sent there, of whom 5,215 died. Between 1796 and 1826, 51,150 infants were admitted to the hospital, of whom 41,524 died”.
Now, it is said that following excavations, no remains or bodies have been found at the sites, yet the volume of deaths doesn’t appear to be disputed. Could this have been an early start to the rather sinister industries we have today, of child trafficking and using of body parts linked to the abortion industry specifically, and by extension the medical establishment.
That was just one of two sites in Ireland, the other being in Cork, and having very little detail about it. Shortly after, the London one opened, and as soon as you see it was petitioned by a ‘philanthropist’, and got many aristocrats and notable people on board, it doesn’t quite look right. Seems it was streamlined into a baby farming enterprise. Taking babies under 12 months, shipping them to the country for education until 4 or 5, then trained to be servants or apprentices and sent to work for your master on contract. Let me guess if any of the recipients of those ‘staff’ were the very same Lords and ladies who endorsed the project. Again making it rather lucrative to force people into giving up their children, or just taking them. And maybe that’s how they managed to control the workforce after a time, because over half of them had been trained and conditioned pretty much from birth. Making them more compliant servants with lower expectations and understanding, as they were meant to have. Keeping them down from day one.
It seems though that any institution that has ever appeared to be there to assist or help, has actually been a cover for a different purpose. And now making it so everyone goes through the same system and conditioning, churning out the next generation of workers and body parts. As it does seem that is all we are viewed as, even if the methods and mechanics of it have changed with the times. And maybe that worked for a couple of hundred years, so the workhouse and schools took over. Children allowed to grow up with their parents again, getting daily conditioning from them as they were trained, and then at school with the societal conditioning of the day. Seems like the wheels have come off that one a bit recently, so who knows what kind of institutions we will have in the future. But if we judge on them on past and present ones, we would do best to avoid them as if our lives depended on it…
(c) K Wicks
