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Deceivers, or Just Entertainment?

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It’s just a bit of fun, isn’t it? Playing make-believe and pretending to be someone else. With costumes, scenery, make-up and adopting a different persona, people are convinced of what they see. Suspending reality for a moment or a short time to be immersed in the fakery, your own brain playing along and helping to create and sustain the illusion.

But where does that illusion end and reality really begin in some people’s minds? It’s been noted for years how some people struggle to separate the two, often thinking about soap operas and storylines as if they were real. Thinking about the characters as if they are real, and often taking influence from these constructed ‘lives’ to learn about their own. Not always in a good way. Don’t get me wrong, people don’t need to watch constant drama to become it, some people are genuinely a whirlwind of instances they create and cannot manage effectively, and mayhem usually follows. But the television portrayal of it is a constant and exaggerated version of that.

Following soap operas though, came the boom in reality TV. Big Brother (aptly named) popped up at a turning point, with others quickly following. It must have been realised by the behaviour department that although people could be manipulated and influenced with completely fictional characters, pretending those fictional characters are real people, was an interesting twist and one which was obviously of benefit. And that’s where I realised that’s what we had anyway. The people now deemed ‘celebrities’ have been paraded here and there for quite some time, where apparently we are shown moments in their lives, their ups and downs, romances and disasters etc off screen. Revealing things from behind the screens and closed doors, as if you are being allowed to glimpse their ‘real world’. Making them the soap opera when acting, then reality TV when not.

Which leads me to one actor in particular, who has stood out recently more than most for his apparent ‘revealing’ of his issues surrounding his career and thought process towards the ‘system of entertainment’. But it’s not a new revelation to me, and isn’t to many others I suspect. What he thinks he is revealing though is to tell us of how the person we think is the actor, is also a role being played (where I had to kind of chuckle and think, no shit sherlock). Scripted and contrived for purpose and effect, as they all are. But that particular actor, Jim Carey, has an interesting catalogue behind them, much of which I have enjoyed I shall admit. Because there is something else there, beyond the ‘zany expressions’ and overdone presentation, which is what made him seem like a character for the longest time anyway.

Some of the films seem to display an extra tone to them – The Mask, Cable Guy, Batman Forever, Liar Liar, Truman Show. Some of the others have things too, but those are a little trail towards the persona for title of them and content. And the first one being a strange concept, of a mask you put on, with it having its own ‘life force and personality’, taking you over and being all the things you ever wanted to be. Seems like a possible analogy for AI, or what they have now called your avatar. An online personality you create and nurture, to show the online world what you want to be, hoping that maybe you will become it in real life. But not noticing how you become more and more a part of the virtual existence, because that is where you can be the ‘you’ that you think you are. But is it you? With talk of AI becoming more progressive within ‘social environments’, there being holographic generated imagery of deceased people and of programmes keeping peoples social media accounts ‘alive’ after they have passed. With voice mapping and created images to help people with their grief apparently, letting the person ‘live forever’ in the cyber world. Might sound advanced to some, but it sounds downright creepy to me. And as if they are slowly erasing the real identities and lives of people, wanting them to be fully in a system, whether you are dead or alive. Seemingly that you will no longer have a choice about your consciousness soon as well as your body.

We have various types of masking these days as well to confuse what we think we see and know. Prosthetic masks, painted as a development within entertainment, Hollywood being the main point where lots of things converge. But we know that if there are creations that would easily trick the eyes, then all sorts of agencies would have been employing them, way before entertainment. If something becomes public knowledge, then it has been around for more than an age. Information has been controlled for the longest time, since they worked out to open a patent office, to intercept all the ideas and inventions that creatively flow through people. And that leads to a very bottlenecked version of what should be, and I guess I would it call a masked reality. Things feel stunted and held back, because they are. As if all you have to do is open the gate and everything can get through together and spread out and grow naturally. Instead it’s contained, separated into different lanes and holding carts, herded into dusty rooms to sit and wait. Breaking the flow of energy and creativity and changing it into frustration and confusion. That’s why they have so many hoops to jump through to be able to achieve anything, or be anything, or to want anything. People end up spending so long trying to fight and change the system that they never get to the potential they are being held back from, but still end up being part of it. As everyone does, but that doesn’t mean we should stop imagining or planning for a better way…

(c) K Wicks

What’s Up There?

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It may be nothing, just atmosphere, clouds and the ‘jet stream’. With set flight paths, weather and the odd anomaly. Seems pretty average doesn’t it. Until you start to delve a bit. My article Cities in the sky, looked at some accounts of cities being viewed above us, for hours sometimes and in great detail.

There are apparently sculptures and carvings that depict flying machines going back as far as ancient civilisations. Before we are meant to have even had the idea for some of them. As well as a well-documented event noted as a sky battle over Nuremburg in the 1500s.

“According to the broadsheet, around dawn on 14 April 1561, “many men and women” of Nuremberg saw what the broadsheet describes as an aerial battle “out of the sun”, followed by the appearance of a large black triangular object and exhausted combattant spheres falling to earth in clouds of smoke. The broadsheet claims that witnesses observed hundreds of spheres, cylinders, and other odd-shaped objects that moved erratically overhead.“

So, what if all the recent geoengineering above us, which various governments have now admitted to, which they do to manipulate and encourage The weather, is actually to hide something. And not the sun as they hint at. Although that serves a purpose too, making people think you have enough power to control something like that. When really it could just be they have figured out the cycle when things appear a certain way, and that could be taken advantage of. Like the Mayan mystics ‘predicting’ the eclipses which we are then told made people worship them.

What is being hidden from us though, is still questionable. And whatever it is perhaps that will give them maximum control is what will be presented. But whether it will be believed or not is another matter. Just as people may not believe it if they did actually see a floating city above them. Would they put that down to a certain project name as well?

We are in an age of lies, so it’s tricky trying to find the truth, or work through what you think are facts when in reality you don’t know. I don’t think that’s entirely by accident, and where instinct plays a part and needs to shine through all the murky waters that surround it.

(c) K Wicks

A Portal

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When there is a gateway or crossover, either dimensional, or metaphysical or imaginary. They say that all screen are portals, TV’s, computers, cameras, mirrors etc. That they all are a window to something we cannot see with our limited viewing capabilities, but often we can sense it. And they say the eyes are the portals to the soul, a viewing mechanism, but does it only work one way? When you think the mirror is looking back at you, not the reflection, but the actual mirror. Is that just a feeling we create, is it because we know about two-way mirrors? Or is it something else, that we can feel something just beyond our view, but we can’t see it. I’ll mention a few movies that may have added to my thoughts on this, they all have a strange aspect to them, but quite varied in genres.

The Ring – although there was an entire movie, I’m sure the bit that stayed with me perhaps stayed with a great many people. The well, and the crawling out of the television. Horror stepping through into this realm.

Pleasantville – a good film that took me years to get round to watching, but it was enjoyable. Where you become part of the show being watched.

Nightmare on Elm Street – tripped out scene in the 4th or 5th film, when the realities between what’s on the screen and in the room start to blend. But obviously the whole premise of the films was that there was a portal between being asleep and awake, and that something could come and get you. I guess that crosses over into my article Doors of the mind, which I now realise should have had these films noted as reference too.

Tron – Where they get sucked into the computer game, and have to work it all out to survive. Fighting against a corporation, main computer or power source.

Jumanji – an updated version of Tron perhaps, where they are also sucked into the game and have to complete a set of trials and tasks to survive and get back to the ‘real world’.

Last action hero – not one I have actually seen, but believe they also come out of the television, rather than someone going in.

Batman Forever – the Riddler character in this one, having a genius idea of a machine, that interacts between peoples mental energy and televisions, harvesting the information, knowledge, thoughts and ideas from people.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Mike TV. The kid that gets transported to inside the television. A rather sinister film all round so not a surprise to have this concept in it.

So, while there are many theories about our existence, it is of course entirely possible that we are a hologram, a simulation, a construct, a signal, a dream. Or that perhaps we are stuck in the levels of hell as in Dante’s Inferno, and we are just running upon a doomed cycle with no escape, which is why we seek it so. But whatever our origin and ultimate purpose, we find that we are here and now, taking part in this current version of reality we have created for ourselves and each other, or have allowed to be created for us. So, maybe just for a moment, like Alice stepping through the looking glass, or Coraline crawling through into the alternate world, we should step outside of where we think we are, and step towards where we would like to be…

(c) K Wicks

New, but not better

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It was a disappointing event and view left after as below. To some It may just appear as more ‘incompetence’, but mark my words, this is strategic and coordinated. Its just a few trees they say, a bit of countryside here and there they say. With lovely drawings and blueprints of a utopic society living happily in this new structured way. Except we bever get to the bit where its realised. They take the money, ruin the landscape, then say ‘oh no, we can’t continue, oh no something changed or went wrong. And you are left with no money, a ruined landscape which takes decades to regrow, and a much crappier existence than before.

This is what happened. And it might just seem like one small area, and just a few trees (over 100 mature trees!) But this is indicative of what they want everywhere. Devastating to the wildlife that would have been preparing for spring, and to the local residents who didn’t want this. Which is why it was done under the cover of darkness, swift and deliberate. So there could be no Opposition.

Plymouth

Can’t have trees in the way of cameras, microphones, signals and surveillance. A stark skyline is what they seem to like and are shooting for. Open and monitored, like a farm, where you can watch your cattle and keep them in their allotted areas or zones as we are being encouraged to call them. They call them 15-minute cities, which to me seems like a concept like School, but bigger. And following on from my other article Something new, but maybe not improved.

Trees create a network of nature, over our heads and beneath our feet. They provide ecosystems for a variety of organisms, insects, animals and plant life. They help to cool and provide shade, to provide oxygen, soak up CO2, help with water drainage and land stability, can provide food in abundance and self-seed. People perhaps underestimate the importance of them and what they do. And how damaging it is to keep removing them from our daily lives and routine. A concrete soulless wasteland is what seems to remain after, so we find ourselves fighting for nature as much as we seem to be fighting for ourselves…

Creepy Heads

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This is about heads. The idea of which came from seeing a picture of disused abandoned large heads, with a creepy feeling to it. Although as we know, photographs can make it seem that way, and in person it may just feel like an old field with old discarded things around. But junk yards and things left to waste away do seem to create a certain vibe, to me anyway.

Presidents head park, Virginia is the one I saw as below, and got me thinking to all the other heads we have in various forms.

https://www.abandonedamerica.us/the-president-heads

Wizard of Oz sequel (Return to Oz) – this one stands out to me as beyond creepy, and did at the time I first watched it. A very dark film really overall, but the villainous character in that called Princess Mombi, had a room of interchangeable real heads. Of beautiful women from the realm that had been decapitated and their heads then carefully stored in a room of glass fronted cabinets, reanimated with magic powder so she could be a different face and head when she wanted.

Statue busts – we like to make just the heads often for decorative and creative purposes. There are many scattered throughout the world from various times and places, made from different materials and techniques. We like to recreate what we see, whether that be with our eyes or our imagination.

Shrunken heads – keeping heads but the small version. Almost like a strange combination of the two above, not quite skilled enough to recreate one, so will just steal one. But without the opulent storage facility of a cabinet room to display them, maybe shrinking them down to fit in your pocket was a bold fashion move of it’s day. We’ll never know.

Tower of London heads on spikes / Vlad the Impaler (Dracula) – We mostly hear of vlad the impaler when it comes to heads on spikes and the shocking way in which that story is told. But for me, the first thought is of closer to home and the Tower of London, which was also known to display the heads of executed people. As a warning and grim reminder of the ‘rules’ I guess. Also read recently that it turns out our monarch is a direct descendent of Vlad Dracul. Fancy that.

Olmec heads – rather large statues, again of just heads. Whether they ever had bodies is possibly debated, but they stand out for their features and quality.

Hydra – Not quite in the same vein as the others, as it had a body and multiple heads, but the focus for that is still the heads. Cut one off and another takes its place. Suddenly makes me thinking of having to remove or destroy a zombies head in fictional scenarios, always the head.

Medusa – another slightly odd placed one, because again she had a body. But it was the head that had special powers, with her hair of snakes and eyes that bore you to stone. And it was her head being removed from its body that was necessary, yet it retained its power. And to again mention zombies, I read a part of the storyline for The Walking Dead the other day as chose not to watch any of it, and it seems that removing the head doesn’t end them, as a character remained in the series, as a zombified head on a spike, still ‘undead’, so it kind of fits here too.

And in a movie or storyline here and there, they have hinted at the idea of having a disembodied head surviving independent of the body, cheating time and nature. We have stories and myths of headless horseman and various ghosts of that type, and a history of decapitations, hangings, throat cuttings and all sorts of gruesome ways to end the connection between the body and the mind. But that’s in a physical sense, maybe these days they are going for the same result, but in a more subtle and insidious way through technology and promises of immortality, wanting to download you into a system that will keep you ‘alive forever’. That saying again from Rudyard Kipling seems apt here –

“If you can keep your head when all about you, Are losing theirs and blaming it on you…”

  

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Alarming, no?

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An emergency alert. In fact, the exact words were “The UK is set to test a frightening ‘Armageddon alarm’ within weeks which will see thousands of people’s phones flash and set off alarms.” And call me cynical, but my first thought was how awful for people with anxiety, who will be given a panic attack, even more so for those who haven’t heard about by the time it comes round.

Which then led instantly onto my next thought, or rather the chain of them. And here we go full conspiracy, what if the ‘alert’ is actually a special signal which activates the debated luciferase or coded info people believe to have been in the recent injections. And as easy as At the flick of a switch, people drop dead. They can say it was heart attacks, and apologise for ‘scaring people to death’ but they won’t mean it. It’ll be another sorry, not sorry. But that’s just crazy talk surely? Creating what would be something like a movie plot for real. Kingsman springs to mind here. Of the phone chips, and related devices to trigger violence, compliance, or whatever was needed to gain control.

Like I said, that surely is crazy talk, which is why I will say it’s a conspiracy theory. A dark one, but not unreasonable given our current circumstances. People with patience are playing a long game, and switched off any feeling for the masses a long time ago, if it was ever there to begin with. Using words again to start the mental worry, ‘frightening and Armageddon’ used there to give a very dramatic feeling, you know, like the ones they try and convey in the disaster movies, which may well have been laying the foundations for where we are now. Looked at in my article Prepped for disaster, or clever programming?

But the idea of an alarm, makes me think of the Eloi in the Time Machine film, where the siren starts and they fall into a trance and walk to their doom unaware, hypnotised by the sound and following an automatic response they have been ingrained with. Or the second Kingsman film even, where there is a plot to get rid of millions of people through poisioned illegal drugs. One which meant they couldn’t stop dancing, so would inevitably dance themselves to death. Then they were put in cages and stored in large empty stadium. Might be nothing of anything, but I can’t help thinking it was relevant, showing them in The main arena despite there being no ‘audience’ for the ‘entertainment’. Or it really was just a film, with no hidden meanings or connotations to anything. And maybe the ‘frightening alert’ is just a normal system they are testing with nothing to be wary of at all. But I can’t help thinking that maybe it isn’t…

The Siren by Daniel Jimenez

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It seems their hand… (poetry)

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It seems their hand

They’ve overplayed

And their welcome

Well out stayed

A box of worn tools

That wants to dictate

Creating a landscape

Of worry and hate

Of numbers and rules

And pawns for a plan

Not about living

But more if they can

Crush and contain

What it is that we do

Wanting to change us

To be something new

A dampened down version

To do as we’re told

The future’s not bright

In fact it’s been sold

But we are complicit

If we do go along

With all of the bullshit

And all of the wrong

That is now around us

And more than on show

Time keeps ticking on

And further we go

~

To whatever end

(c) K Wicks

Your Digital Informer

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Like having a Tamagotchi, but instead of leaving it at home while you go to school, you stay home and it goes to school for you. That particular ‘toy’ may not be the best example as I was a bit older and missed the craze at the time. But wasn’t surprised to see recreations of people in adulthood mimicking their behaviour as a child with one. Literally dropping everything and rushing home from school to ‘feed it’ or find it had died. Probably a strange compliance test at the time, to see who would prioritise technology over real life. Enough it turns out. I too have arranged things around television when younger, so although didn’t engage with the Tamagotchi craze, I was taken by technology and arranging your schedule around it. As many now have to, or choose willingly to.

But the new and slightly weirder piece of tech for this particular article, is the AV.1 robot. By a company called No Isolation. Sounds all friendly and benign doesn’t it? And has already been implemented in the UK, with more on the horizon. And its purpose? For attending school in place of children who for various reasons, cannot attend themselves, with the idea being that they can still take part in the lesson, and ‘be part of it’ remotely. Like I said, sounds all friendly and benign on the face of it. But as with many things, I like to give a bit of extra thought to these types of things.

Aside from the fact that if a child is too ill to attend school is still expected to learn and take part like everyone else from their sickbed, being a bit weird. It’s the fact there will be a constant electronic link, sometimes visual (as that is not compulsory apparently, only audio), between the child and the school. Which can and probably will be monitored by a third party. Also keep in mind, any device provided by the state through schools to families is owned by them, and they get to listen to what they want, record what they want, and can check the device any time they want. But it is an extra link directly into the home, through the child, rather than just being a direct link for the child to the school and teachers. They really do need to maintain the children’s constant indoctrination don’t they? Off sick and can’t cope? No problem, we’ll install a system so that you will never feel behind or left out – oh, yes, that does mean you will be constantly monitored, and assessed, and judged, and expected to perform as per requirement and timetable. Perhaps overlooking that many of those things are what people struggle with, but by enforcing them at home as well as in the compulsory institutions, you just make it so there is nowhere to go to get away from it. If you can’t cope with school, then having it in your house everyday may not be the best solution and can cause a whole host of other anxiety issues directly within what should be a ‘safe space’. But maybe that’s just me that sees it like that.

Either way, having something mechanical to be a stand in for your physical presence is odd to me. Because while it appears to be a stand in, you are required mentally to be there, logged in and giving it your energy and attention. Many adults and children struggle with zoom meetings, and interactions of that nature being constantly required. It seems that although it’s not you being there physically, the draining aspect of what it requires is too much. People can gain energy from being around other people, recharging and bouncing off each other. It can help to get you through a day, or not for some. But the compulsory nature of school anyway bothers me, and how they have tried to structure family life around it. Catchment areas, grades, expectations, financial requirements, scrutiny, rules, restrictions and punishments. And that’s just school and a fraction of how much it dictates in a child’s life, and parents. It’s such an intrusive and unhealthy relationship the establishment has with people and their lives. It seems more obvious now than ever.

(c) K Wicks

Perceptions of What We Think We See

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This is a follow up piece to Perceptions of self, because on top of the three ideas of how we view ourselves, how we view others and how we think others view us, a curve ball gets added.

Ai generated ‘humans’ are becoming part of our everyday experiences with screens and ‘entertainment’, whether we are aware of their presence or not. So, within that, our perceptions and expectations of ourselves are affected, as with all the previous shifts in the commercial industries. Film, TV, fashion, music, news, politics, finance etc. All the areas that are used to have a system and standard for you to be conditioned to and to become part of. People learn an awful lot from faces, I think maybe that is overlooked sometimes. Not by those who know, it is very much thought about.

We learn about many things by watching others as we grow up and go through life. We begin to understand ourselves and the world around us, often steering away from the types who hold us down or back from life. And many people have built-in senses to detect things in others, we call it instinct I guess, but through time and process we have developed skills to try and recognise signals and warnings. Although, I believe they are greatly affected by environment and well placed and nurtured false triggers.

So, enter into that arena, a new range of ‘faces’ and ‘people’ to infiltrate the social landscape. We have that going with real people too, personal identity and who you think you are seems to be Big business these days. And maybe that is helped by the curve ball I mentioned. Where we now have to factor in what it is we might be comparing ourselves against, and to be honest, we always should have been, but I believed that was towards other humans. And even then I finally twigged that it was a skewed standard being pushed on society. That many people have a perception of something that didn’t actually exist other than in the mind, hoping for it to be reality so much, that actual reality gets overlooked or put aside. But they do say, you create your own reality. You can see why the lines may have become a bit blurred.

Now we have that extra component, creating a new reality alongside and within the one we currently have. A virtual and artificial one as they call it, infiltrating us by way of technology. Because without screens and a power source, it doesn’t exist. We however, need a power source to exist too, but food, water and rest seems to be enough to sustain ourselves. Quite independent of technology. The other world however, cannot. Maybe that’s why they would like people to be 6g antennas, so that there is a constant source of ‘power’ if we did switch everything off and reset it. They become fully integrated with us with a view to switching us off before we do it to them. A self-preservation mechanism that was either programmed or developed. But that goes to the far-fetched extreme, like the Matrix portrayal as us being batteries and ‘scorching the sun’. This is a more behind the scenes, insidious integration that almost seamlessly slips into being part of your life. So smooth you almost don’t notice. Almost…

(c) K Wicks