A reading of my article – Do you want to be monitored?
(c) K Wicks
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He Who Has An Army
It’s gathering pace, the clips from various countries showing people being ‘moved into place’ as the talk on the street goes. Chinese in Panama crossing borders at night, millions crossing the Southern border, hordes of ‘fighting aged men’ arriving on Britain’s shores on a daily basis, Europe being ‘flooded’ with people. All sounds rather hectic and a bit concerning for those who have been used to stability for a long time. And for those who have witnessed regime collapses and changes and came from places already destabilised, well, it’s not looking good from where they sit either.
There is much speculation of where it is going, and from a British perspective I have written two pieces already on what is occurring as the ‘new arrivals’ are being given a red carpet, and almost worshipped over the local populations. Hotel California, or Hotel Strategy? and On the Ground, but it does almost seem as if it has become like one of the Fairy Tales of old. Where the wicked stepmother replaces the child no longer wanted, but isn’t content to just throw them out, they have to mentally destroy them and make them feel worthless first, and then try and kill them or throw them out into the world. Different level of cruelty and sinister behaviours beyond just telling someone to go away, or telling them they are no longer required.
Risk – if you ever played the board game, you’ll possibly know the impossible task of taking Russia on that board, and although it’s just a game and all about strategy (sounds like how we play the real game of war doesn’t it?), it wouldn’t matter how many soldiers you had, or what approach you used. It was always a losing situation. Who started with Russia, ended with Russia. And it wasn’t just me found this, many did. But if you have any interest in strategy and of the ‘chess game’ that is in play, then you will know that something definitely isn’t quite right. A bunch of charlatans in suits are bleeding countries dry, setting them up for violence, hardship and continued confusion. Many are in the stages of acceptance of that, but for others they accepted that was happening long ago, and have been giving more thought to the why, and the ultimate purpose of it. Mercenaries don’t look like they used to, but that doesn’t mean you can’t recognise them.
And it comes to be that whoever pays the most, usually wins, because they grease the wheels of war and violence, encouraging the worst of human nature. The deck comes stacked, the dice are loaded and the game is rigged, from day one. So, you can’t approach it in the same way you might with what appears to be a ‘normal’ set up and engagement. Using reasoning and logic as you might, won’t serve you as well with ones who are beyond those capabilities at the same level. They have unlimited resources on paper, and make whatever deals are necessary to win, although honouring those deals isn’t high on the list usually. It seems these days a greedy, money-driven agenda has been pushed for an age or two, to make people easy to buy, and weak to temptation. It would be nice to think that the times of Robin Hood were real, because while we have the crown and sheriffs stamping their authority on people, and taxing the very life and soul out of them, we need a revolution as they apparently had in those days. Now, that story still isn’t all it seems, because while they revolted, they still fought for the crown, with purpose.
And that is where greed has taken something else from people too, a sense of purpose. Real purpose. A sense of knowing, belonging and something to fight for is necessary. And that perhaps is the extra concern with what appears to be an army of mercenaries being moved into position, that there is something else behind it all, more than money. People can feel it and they are trying to put their finger on it, and articulate it, despite the ‘offended’ parties hiding behind various ism’s to try and dispel any worry. Trust what we say, not what you see they will tell you. But some people trust what they know, and that is where it seems that there is in fact another army waiting, like the souls dwelling in the mountain in The Return of the King film. As if it slowly is Rising from the deep, connected and bound by their fate and knowing, understanding there will come a time. So, although it may seem that the winner is ‘He who has an army’, I can’t help thinking that is wrong, and it will be ‘He who is an army’, will end up being more important…
(c) K Wicks
That’s Not Cricket – article reading
Rising
It is said there may be something beneath our feet, further down below the known tunnels and buried cities, something dark that waits. Like the mines of Moria, sleeping through the ages until awoken. Or that there is a mechanism, within the earth, which will turn on when it’s cycle reaches an end, or reset itself which could include a pole shift, or tectonic collapse, or destabilise the firmament. All of those ideas leading to a catastrophe as we would know it. Merely theory of course, but on the idea that there is something down there, I had a few tangents in mind to follow.
Dimensions – or demon-sion (zion) possibly. It’s a bit of a reach, but words are played around with an awful lot, to hide their real meaning. And it would seem as though we are in a time where something quite demonic is infiltrating the undertones of society, so it may not be something to rise up, as it already has.
Cern – there is speculation that it could be part of their plan to try and open A portal to somewhere else, and equal speculation that it might happen accidently, and isn’t part of their plan at all, but will be a consequence of meddling above our station. Or, it’s just possible that what they are trying to tinker with is the fabric of reality. Because let’s be honest, I don’t think anyone really believes they are doing anything for the betterment of humanity anymore, hopefully we are past that illusion. But there is a possibility, however remote, that it is a rising of consciousness that is and has occurred. A new flow of information and ideas being inserted into humanity, and various methods of dulling, numbing and distracting people are underway including the recent events of the last few years, and constant drive thereafter. That one is a thought in progress too so may come up again in another post.
Hell – another speculation about what they might open, or allow to rise up. Could be the religious underworld that we have been conditioned to know as ‘Hell’. With Dantes inferno an illustration thereof giving a good visual for the levels of hell, going deep into the earth, almost looking like an inverted pyramid too in some. Even within the idea of the simulation theory, levels of ‘hell’ being the stages of reality you might go through. Strange stuff.
Leviathan – this one seems to keep coming back as an idea, that it may be intertwined with the idea of Hell and Cern, and what rises isn’t what they expected, and can’t be contained as they would so like. Like the Balrog perhaps, found in those deep dark mines of Moria.
Water Geysers flooding the earth – it is also said that when the Great Flood happened, and other events in the past that have deluged the known world, it didn’t just fall from sky as rain. They say it also came up from under us, and after recent thoughts and discussions on the density of our atmosphere, layers and firmament, it’s possible the sky became a liquid of sorts too, a vapour canopy type thing. But that ties into the Phoenix Event Theory so might need a bit more attention, possibly being something from above rather than below. I’ll have to give that one more thought…
(c) K Wicks
In Your Head
They want to be in your head. They make no secret of it. Talk of implanting computer chips linking to your neural network. But in the meantime, they try to insert themselves into your thought process, as much as they can, digitally laying the foundations for it. The physical world being geared up around a digital existence with everything you are and do being tied to it, with this idea being vaguely discussed to assist with that digital crossover they would like.
Cerebral integration – it appears an augmented human is being pushed in the public domain, but behind the scenes it seems more about infiltrating people and their thoughts. By various methods, but the most direct one being talked about, seems to be implants into the brain itself. For the purpose of ‘medicine and advancement’ of course, but what else might be the purpose?
Strange days – a movie I watched a couple of decades ago, with the premise of being able to ‘import’ other people’s experiences into your head by way of an external device. Creating an entertainment market as well as a black-market underneath that for deviant and destructive experiences. But I have thought of that film often throughout the years, of the idea that while they showed something being put in to people’s heads, they didn’t really delve much into the process of extracting the memory/experience in the first place. But we talk of it now as a cool thing, to allow someone into your head, literally.
VR movies & games – with the technological world trying to move forward at an ever-faster pace, we have VR trying to break into the market. Wanting people to trade an already enjoyable experience with current games, or actual life, for something that isn’t quite as good, yet. I’m not sure if they would like a Ready Player One scenario for everyone, but the idea of everyone hooked up, and logged in sounds exactly the type of thing they would like and what they are shooting for. Just not in a fun, build your own world fantasy kind of way, more in a ‘here, we build this thing and need you all to be in it for it to work’.
Simulation theory – touched upon in my articles Sim City, and Structures in the Sky, but potentially if the hypothesis of there being a fourth dimension is correct, and can only be accessed by our non-physical self, then it might stand to reason that one might try to gain access to that fourth dimension by way of people and their subconscious brain and thoughts. The idea of a chip in your brain is all very well, when you are awake and apparently in control of it, but it is what happens when you are not awake, or fully aware of things that perhaps could be interesting or indeed of more interest to them than people’s waking thoughts. Those are often shared freely online so not need to harvest those as much maybe, but the hidden not spoken or realised thoughts, maybe those are more valuable in the pursuit of understanding what we are and where we are. Who knows.
As we are exposed to more and more frequencies and waves generally in day-to-day life, maybe our thoughts patterns have already been changed beyond their original and normal capacity, possibly being part of the gateway itself, rather than just an access point to it. There is a thing called a Tulpa, which my article Is it really the machines we should fear? goes into a bit. But it’s a strange realm of thought and creation and I can’t help thinking that’s part of the bigger picture.
(c) MKW Publishing
A Strange Affair
It seems as though initially, they used women against men, to bring them down a bit and get them to ‘know their place’ just like we had done to us. Women took the bait and went for ‘equality’ despite knowing we are different. Now, in a twist to the tale, it seems that the tables have turned again, and now men are being used against women (and men), with the twist being that it is a handful of men portraying what they perceive to be a representation of what it is to be a woman. Not actually a woman, but an exaggerated commercial parody of one. Quite perverse really. And aside from the comedic way they try to paint it, it’s quite disturbing how so many of the monopoly companies have decided all at the same time to change their branding with who they have chosen, and not many, just one face for it all. These companies don’t do things without a heavy amount of psychological research and marketing beforehand. So, knowing it will make headlines, but damage sales they have gone ahead – strange trade-off for a ‘business’ trying to appeal to an extremely small section of society. And all the other places where they are trying to shoehorn men into is odd too, making sure they win women’s awards, sports, get their jobs and statuses – even now talking of implanting wombs into men (or taking people out the growing process altogether covered in my article Pod Life 2). All the while laughing and joking about it, finding it amusing to downplay women’s concerns. But I believe these concerns should be shared by both, because it’s a weird project they seem to have running with trying to balance it all out by creating one A-gender, sounds awfully like agenda doesn’t it?
And there has been speculation over the years, that the encouragement of letting women go out to work and them being ‘given rights’ was all a ruse and a cover, for a purpose with a few layers to it. Firstly, you can instantly increase the workforce and can gather more taxes and money from people. Secondly, you start to change the family dynamic and draw women away from the household, and thirdly, you change the mindset of individuals and the overall social group. Like I said above, there is a level of difference between men and women that we had mostly accepted as a collective. That women get pregnant and have children, men cannot although are half the equation in being the ones who impregnate women. That there are strength differences between the two and varying levels of hormones which affect day to day function and throughout our lives. I honestly thought we had accepted that and wanted to maintain what we knew, and improve upon it to make it all better and brighter.
But no. It seems we are taking a rather strange path instead, where instead of celebrating our differences and embracing our individual selves within that, they appear to be trying to blur the lines. And to some it seems as simple as someone just trying to ‘be themselves’, which to me seems ironic as it literally involves trying to be someone else, so not your authentic self then? I thought part of life was about trying to work out who you were, and being accepting of that. Warts and all as they say. But if you are constantly changing yourself to fit what you think is acceptable to society (and by society I mean all the angles of it which includes friends, family and media too), then how are you ever going to know who you were meant to be? And it is harsh that the society I speak of, is the one who sets up restrictions, boundaries, ideals and expectations in people’s lives and families, so they weren’t or aren’t able to just be themselves. However, being yourself is now being wielded as a weapon, and to be honest, it kind of always was, just in different ways. Told to be confident, said it comes across as aggressive or as a know it all, encouraged to succeed, oh but don’t gloat about it, otherwise others will think you are rubbing it in their face. It’s a hard line to walk sometimes, social etiquette, standards and rules of engagement are different in amongst the people, and not quite as easy as they would have you think. Online makes it seem so cut and dry, think this or you get accused of thinking that, support something, or you are viewed as against it. Like the saying goes, just because I like apples, does not mean I hate oranges. And just because I might hate something or have a dislike for it, doesn’t mean I want everyone else to stop liking it either. That would seem like an odd validation requirement for something that should be personal and not involve anyone else, and that could be said of a few things in society too.
What people used to refer to as ‘behind closed doors’ is now a grey area for many. Because while things do literally and metaphorically still happen behind closed doors, much of it from certain people is shared online, making it public and in the social arena, whether you are well known or not. People willing to air their dirty laundry, share their opinions, dislikes and what I guess they deem as the information they want people to know at that time. Just an online version of a pub in a small town (but with a much bigger population and ‘audience’ to your life), where there would always be some folk who would love to chat about their drama in the pub, trying to get everyone to listen, or be interested, or involved. Others would just happily come and go about their business, mingling a bit and leaving. Others just being normal, drinking and laughing and utilising the chance to unwind. But people who were the first type, liked to dominate the room, the crowd, the vibe and demanding the attention. With a reaction when not getting what is required, either a tantrum, a lie, an emotional breakdown or whatever it takes to get that validation and boost. Sure, it’s nice when someone likes what you do, but why would you need people to constantly like who you are, when most people can’t possibly know who you are. And many seem to be struggling with knowing themselves, so to then expect others to know you, is just a bit of a reach in my opinion. So, although those closed doors I mentioned are now not so closed, it’s like glimpsing in through a crack in the door, or catching five minutes of someone’s day or feelings, but it isn’t just any five minutes or an accidental moment, it’s deliberate and for purpose mostly. People choose what they share currently on social media, and although they may have a lapse in judgement, or vent something more personal than they wished they had, mostly they share and say what they want you to see and hear, so you will know what they want you to know.
Meandering back to the start of the article, it seems to me that the differences between women and men, are being very much intermingled with feelings of identity, but without discussing some of the real points as to why people have felt so confused. Or misplaced within society. It’s not accidental in my mind, people are meant to be confused and looking for ‘help’ to find themselves. It’s what groomers thrive on and then they can offer to help with that, and when I say groomers, I am referring to government here and the authorities that decide programs and structures of society. We all have our own experiences growing up and of working out who we are meant to be, alongside the construct and stereotypical expectations of society shaping that. Which is why I call them groomers, as I do think we have all been groomed to behave in a certain way, and give them what they need. Men and women used against each other, just as boys and girls are, to keep it all not so harmonious, to keep the flames of greed, jealousy, competition and desire burning brightly. But it seems not enough for them anymore, they have the means and the will to turn people against themselves and will use every trick in the book to exploit people’s weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Being who you are is now more important than ever, and sometimes we just need a bit of time and space to work out who that is…
(c) K Wicks
In The Old Underground
I have already done a piece about some strange things underground, and of there being a grisly past time and of dark things that have occurred in One thing leads to another. But I gave more thought to what might be down there, and of mysteries and ideas surrounding the levels of our earth and of what might dwell in the deep. There are a few examples of things being discovered with legends attached to them, or just no explanation at all.
The Well to Hell (Russia) – may not be as the legend says as a good story popped up around it after 1989, but a drilled hole of 12k deep found some geological anomalies, although what they were is not stated. The story was that recording equipment was lowered down and screams from hell could be heard, but upon scrutiny it seems it was a looped tape of recording to make it sound as such.
Mel’s Hole (Washington) – Another legend from our time as it popped up in 1997, with very little to back it up other than the story of a deep hole, which could bring back the dead (specifically a dog of a neighbour who had passed away and they threw it in the hole apparently – then seeing it alive later), of cover-ups and witnesses who can’t quite remember where it is but that it holds supernatural powers. Two films spring to mind for this which incidentally came out in the 80’s – Pet Semetary and The Gate, so seems likely it was just a good earner for someone briefly who perhaps wanted to sell a book, who can say for sure.
Houska Castle (Czech Republic) – this one is a bit weirder, and seems to sort of just be accepted as this is what it is, so I’ll just past the whole bit from Wikipedia as it says it all.
“and most specifically the chapel, was constructed over a large hole in the ground that is a “gateway to Hell”, which is allegedly so deep that no one could see the bottom of it. Animal-human hybrids were reported to have crawled out of it, and dark-winged, otherworldly creatures flew in its vicinity. Legend has it that when construction began in the castle, all of the prisoners that were sentenced to death were offered a pardon if they consented to be lowered by rope into the hole, and report back on what they saw. When the first person was lowered, he began screaming after a few seconds, and when pulled back to the surface, he looked as if he had aged 30 years. He had grown wrinkles and his hair had turned white.”
They say it was used by Nazi’s during WWII for experiments into the occult using the “powers of hell”. But the stories go back much further as it is said that the castle is built where it is in the 13th century, “The pit in the lower levels of the castle is said to be a gateway to hell. Thus, by constructing the Gothic building’s defensive walls facing inward, they were able to keep the demons trapped in the lower level’s thickest walls closest to the hole of the castle”
I mean, they all sound pretty much like urban legends and myths, created or updated to fit the time they find themselves in. And strangely although we move towards a ‘tech rev’ it seems that to have a rather medieval undertone to it. Which then makes me think of other random myths, movies, monsters and ideas that seem to remain in our psyche and collective histories. But of the above examples, the one that made me think further was the person being aged 30 years somewhat instantly. A terrifying concept, and if you applied that to Alice in Wonderland, would have been a different story entirely. Gone for an hour topside, but actually it was 30 years once you fell down the hole, and you experienced all those years and grew and came back to a world that you no longer knew.
Another film comes to mind here, Flight of the Navigator (1986) – where a kid is missing for what he thinks is an hour or two, but turns out it has been 8 years, and he hasn’t aged a day. It’s a great film, but feels really sad mostly and gives a strange view on how confusing something like that could be.
We always portray in movies and books that there are crypts underground for old creatures, hiding in the bowels of the earth, that come topside to feed and rejuvenate. Vampires and other things of a humanoid nature, but not part of nature as we have been taught.
Time rings, the closer you get to the spinning core, time speeds up. There is a theory that a time dilation occurs when you are either closer of further away from the spinning undertones of our realm, so with that in mind, it could easily be that there is a hole going down into the earth that gets closer to that. Ageing a person as they get closer, but without it being a reverse mechanism, only a one-way ticket to the end. But if you started down there, and could make yourself younger by coming up, well, that would be a different story.
Yet tales of things that dwell down there remain, as do remnants of old cities, tunnels and secrets long buried or hidden from everyday view. So many possibly don’t even give thought to what is underfoot, not even realising the history they are stepping over or on. Or or what perhaps is going on underfoot, we hear more talk these days of modern tunnels and hidden systems operating beneath the surface, of a world you don’t see happening within the world you do. Hidden in plain sight as you might say. And it might be the same for other things, darker and more sinister things that you thought were long since dead or forgotten, but that are still there, you just can’t quite see them…
(c) K Wicks
Fairy Tales
Some of you may remember reading fairy tales growing up, or watching them as movies once they were adapted for the screen. And you may even remember the details of the tale, and the moral (some people don’t retain those things, so even some who may have read or watched them aren’t always familiar). And not everyone gives extra thought to things, ideas, subjects and stories, they can just take things at face value only with no lingering afterthought or extra dissection of the message being conveyed. But some of us do.
Because although some of the settings may have been outrageous, or far-fetched, and the characters exaggerated or overdone, with the good and the evil being very easily distinguished from one another. They had a very real and often dark exposure of human nature running through them. Of greed and selfishness, weakness and moral corruption and more often than not, showing you one of the very worst parts of people and society. Loving parents being forced to abandon their kids, hateful parents not wanting them in the way, deals being struck for fortunes using children as payment, evil stepmothers hiring mercenaries to kill their competition, children being hypnotised and led to their doom, death, poverty and danger, and so on. Highlighting how the perils that a young person may face could be many, and if we were paying attention to those tales, it could come from any area of the adult world. Even from what was supposed to be your own loving kin in some cases.
But they appear to serve as warnings neatly wrapped in a palatable coating, where of course there is also heroism, bravery and courage as well as sometimes wit and skill, to come good in the end and save the day. The meaning given to them being “a story in which improbable events lead to a happy ending“. But even though there is a creepy and often malicious thread running through them, it seems that recently they have been tidied up for public consumption by the masses, once Disney got hold of them. Dumbed down with some of the most sinister themes removed, but not all. And it is said that the originals had such dark themes because they were in fact based on historical events, and weren’t just imagination and those extra pieces of fantasticalism were added to make them acceptable for children it would seem. Or, is it a way to hide those tales and warnings of old, to ‘friendly up’ something which has ulterior motives, just like in Pinocchio. Where you can do what you want, have as much fun as you want, don’t listen to your parents or warnings, until it’s too late and the real price of all that ‘freedom’ starts to hit home. Becoming part of a system that feeds off their naivety, ignorance and lack of experience. Lining the pockets of the fat cats running the show, making money from their energy, excitement and ultimately their misery. And of that strange tale, it’s interesting to me how the whole thread of it was about his desire to be something he wasn’t, to fit in and be what his parent wanted. Thus giving rise to the vulnerability that became his weakness that others could prey upon. Identity, reality and the motives of others being much very behind that story. Or maybe that’s just how I saw it.
There are many things throughout life to help to lead you astray, whether you believe they are placed there on purpose, or find their way to you, many are not always ready to accept their part in the transaction. But mostly you cannot go unwillingly, there is a choice that occurs about which road to take, or who to follow. In all of these tales, there are choices and decisions as well as consequences and outcomes, and while some would prefer to focus on the outcome, it means they may overlook what it was that led to it. Often preferring to believe they are bystanders to circumstance, rather than players in it and sometimes the engineers of it. I wonder what fairy tales we could write of these current times, to try and continue to convey a darkness of which the undertones have been felt for more than a few centuries, and continue to lurk among us. Or maybe that’s why we keep the old stories, to remind the next generation to be wary and watchful, because sometimes behind the bright colours and beyond the witches and unicorns, there is something real and dark watching and waiting…
(c) K Wicks
Competing For Top Spot
Initially this was going to just be an article about our history of being competitive for sport, money, status and prestige. That we hold competitions to judge people on their beauty, strength, agility and physique.
We have the Olympics, various sports, strong man comps, Miss World and universe, body building and weight lifting competitions, modelling of all kinds, awards ceremonies and so on. All to decide who is the best, brightest and most talented and beautiful, according to a panel of hand selected people.
But something has changed recently within those industries and public face of them, and one can’t help but notice, but I will go into that shortly. Firstly, I will talk about competition and the idea of being competitive in the social arena, from my view and how I have perceived it growing up from a girl into a woman, and the expectations and limitations that surrounded it. For starters, it really isn’t a myth that men are afforded more opportunities than women, in most settings, although there will always be an exception to the rule. But you won’t get paid the same usually, you won’t get the same promotions, and you won’t get the same respect. Mostly those things are obvious as you go through life experiencing it first-hand, despite what some people may say. Overlooked because you ‘might breed’ or distract the other workers, or because you might ‘get emotional’ (not because you actually do any of those things, but because you might, and you just have to suck it up). Told what you can and can’t wear, as it will ‘encourage men’, or regardless of what you wear, someone will still find something to be wrong with it. Your makeup and how you present yourself will be judged and scrutinized, by teachers, parents, employers, friends etc. You know you’ll always be second rate, and yet will still have to work harder, do more and push yourself to compete in a world that you will never be seen as good enough in by those that set the standard. Because you aren’t them, and never can be – and they know it. So, the best you can do, is to be good enough to yourself and for yourself, and realise that society ‘deciding your worth’ does not make it so, that’s part of the whole illusion so they can rate you and put us all into their little systems and categories. But it is a system that is quite well set, or at least was until the last few years when something odd seems to be occurring.
Now, after years of being told what and where our place was and goalposts being quite defined, and fighting for a basic acceptance of at least to be viewed and treated equally as a human, and to have opportunity to do so, a rather strange curve ball has hit the scene. Or curve balls, should I say.
Large corporations have chosen to employ a man to act as a woman in commercials, adverts and quite a large online campaign. He is portraying the most exaggerated, overdone version of what I presume they view to be a woman and ‘feminine qualities’, which is quite painful to behold and watch someone put on the most cringy display while overacting a part. Covered slightly in my article The clothes do not maketh the man, but it’s getting even weirder out there now. He is being used to represent multiple women’s products and being highlighted and put forward as the face of their campaigns – just one person, not even a few, or even someone who has genuinely transitioned and is trying their best to be and live as a women, no. Men are being allowed to compete in sporting competitions, just by saying they feel like a woman, or going into schools because they can say they identify as a child. And the prison debacle, well, that speaks for itself really but is another dangerous step towards dismissing women, their concerns, rights, ideals and future. Does that work in the payroll department I wonder? That man gets paid more than me, I feel like a man today so want to be paid the same now, so up my wages please or that is discrimination. It’s A Slippery Slope we are on with a bit of a void at the bottom, as there doesn’t appear any logical purpose for any of it, other than to obliterate everyone rights, but one small piece at a time. They know most men won’t care about women’s or children’s rights on the whole, as it doesn’t affect them much as women aren’t just walking into their bathrooms, or winning strength based sports, or flashing their bits to children, or taking their awards or jobs. It will be a different approach for theirs, and I guess we’ll have to watch this space for what that is.
Along the way, I have heard and seen that men are more competitive than women, although they will compete with each other, and do have a drive to succeed, it is not geared up in the same way as men it would seem or towards the same things. Men are (or at least were) much more bullish, demanding and aggressive it is said (again always exceptions to the rule), but that does seem to have been accepted for a long time and ones with that type of drive went into competitive areas, whether it be sport, industry or academia etc. There is also a good reason we have kept women and men separate to a point in certain areas too, and it isn’t because we weren’t being progressive, it was because we were being practical and a little thoughtful. Would you expect a young or teenage boy and girl to share a bathroom at home at the same time? Or a man and teenage girl, would you expect them to shower at the same time in the same facilities, related or not? No? Things are kept separate often for many reasons, privacy, decency and respect I thought – for yourself and others. And those are the things being chucked to one side for one large group, so another small group can ‘feel included’. But that inclusion has a price tag it would seem, and that price is the exclusion of how everyone else feels, especially girls and women. And that’s the strange thing, we haven’t had to compete in these arenas before in recent generations as much, we campaigned for acceptance, for jobs, for safety, for inclusion – and got those things as much as we could. And now we are having to compete to not have them usurped, by imposters parading in the public eye for purpose. The ones who are being pushed as the face of the agenda are part of a bigger picture, encouraging other to follow like children entranced by the pied piper, leading them astray. Everybody is being caught up in this strange shift in society, where they would like you to think they are there to help, and only want what’s best for you, not in a best friend kind of way though, more like a Kathy Bates in Misery kind of way.
And of those competitions I mentioned above – “various sports, strong man comps, Miss World and universe, body building and weight lifting competitons, modelling of all kinds, awards ceremonies and so on” – it seems that they have been the podium for this ‘new one world order’ they want us to believe is the future. To try and blur the lines between there being two, because you can’t have one, if there is two now, can you? Personally, I don’t believe they care one jot about if someone feels they were born in the wrong body, or does not feel like who they should be, or they would address the rather odd and strict parameters, conditions and substances of society that feed into that. Instead, they view that type of confusion and wondering as a vulnerability to be exploited and a potential weapon for their cause at the time. But as I have previously stated, each section of society will be used when needed, and cast aside when the next fad rolls out to move closer to the goal of breaking down identities, personal boundaries, networks and stability. Making it seems so desperately chaotic and fractured that the only answer will be the ‘The One’. Remember how they have that running as a theme through many a dramatic and heroic movie, where only ‘The One’ can save humanity? Where only by uniting as one can people be saved. My article Prepped for disaster, or clever programming? goes into that idea and maybe my piece There was always going to be two, about society being separated and not becoming one as they would like. But this is something else happening under our feet, behind our backs and in front of our faces, a change where not all is as it seems…
(c) K Wicks
April New Year, Don’t Be Fooled
It seems that the potential origin of April fools and how it came about is tied to calendars. And the changing of them in fact, as one might a guard, but this was apparently around the time of the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian one we use now. Where they changed new year to be from 25th March, to the 1st of January. It is said that European towns would have a holiday thereafter, with the new year starting on the 1st April. And after that time of change, it seems it may have become a thing to ridicule people who did not want to, or would not adopt ‘the new way’.
But that’s OK, because they seemed to use that good old tool of humiliation and public mockery, all in jest of course. But to make a fool of people who remained on the old system, gradually making everyone conform to a time. And it’s a ‘tradition’ that we still have today, but I hadn’t really given it thought over the years, instead just blindly following society with pre-set dates you must adhere to, but under the guise of ‘fun and celebration’ and for various reasons. But really they all now seem part of either a conditioning project, or a commercial enterprise, which in itself has always been a conditioning project to make us buy things. But there is very little gimmick attached to April Fools, no real merchandise I’m aware of other than some jokey things, and it’s only half a day, so not much is really put into it. Yet it remains, to laugh at the easily fooled, the gullible and naive. Or is it still there as a reminder, to not go against the grain for fear of humiliation, that for hundreds of years it could be immortalised as a ‘tradition’. And to bring out the slightly mean-spirited people who like to poke fun at, or make fun of others, to give them free reign with no recourse? Perhaps.
But it must have been quite a destabilising thing to do. When we are led to believe that not everyone was even running on the same time in neighbouring towns, but time, days and times of year get shifted. Almost a bigger version perhaps of them messing with the clocks twice a year. And lots of the world doesn’t, so you realise even today, with all our synchronised clocks and technology, many are running on different time. As people do personally as well to a shared clock. But some countries even run on a different year altogether, in Nepal for example its the year 2080 on their Nepali Patro calendar.
There are 5 countries in all that haven’t taken on the Gregorian calendar it seems, Afghanistan and Iran, use the Solar Hijri calendar and its the year 1368. Ethiopia and Eritrea use the Ethiopian calendar in which it is 7 years behind, so they are technically in 2015. And Nepal as above. Strange isn’t it, that although taking part in shared calendar, still keeping your own time. I like it. And time is a very strange thing how they’ve divided it all up around the world as well as our days into time zones, sometime changing a number of times across one landmass or country. It’s mad really, flying or travelling into tomorrow, or yesterday, and by way of jetlag we deal with it although that is a strange feeling, as is the concept. We all just accept it though for what it is, and through what we are taught or learn, but I can’t help thinking it’s not quite as it seems…
(c) K Wicks
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