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Mental Slavery and Human Batteries

Mental slavery is a term I noticed, posted to Twitter this week. Something about people choosing to go along with brain washing or choosing not to really think too hard about anything and just let themselves be used as per herd mentality. Something like that. I’m kind of tired and not really feeling enough passion/ vibrance to write. The world is a very discouraging place. Everyone is just supposed to think as the government/ media wants us to think. Anything less is discouraged. Not even so much by the government or media, or whatever controls both. Peer pressure has become so strong whatever source all of this came from, they can just stand back in the dimly lit corners and let it all wash over the world without help.

Zack, my nephew, wrote about a video game he played with Chris. I asked and he explained the game is “specifically designed for co-op where you play as two parents trying to get divorced. They get transformed into dolls who then have to work together to undo it” Ok, so just a game… But, it heavily promotes the idea that divorce is bad, wrong, etc. Isn’t this a soft method of controlling how people think?

Some people are protesting about the lockdowns but most think all of this mental slavery, brain washing, whatever you choose to call it, just started with Covid. As if it is all something new. This means so many other things have swept past them unnoticed, uncommented upon. The issue isn’t new. The Covid panic and lockdowns are just another step, another link in this chain of events.

When did it start? I don’t think I am old enough to see the start and too old to see where it will finish. Eventually it will finish, one way or place or another. What is the point of it all? Power, control, economics? A lot of words are shuffled around but people don’t seem to think or understand any of them any more. Even the people starting to think are not seeing a very big picture.

The only part of the Matrix movie I really remember, the part that has stuck in my mind, is the character played by Keanu Reeves waking up to realize he has been a human battery for the machines now running and in control of everything. I know it seems so far afield. But, it just keeps lurking around in the back of my mind, how far fetched is it? Each time I think its just not likely, next it is back again, making me wonder.

In a world for machines, what would they need? Just enough life to keep the planet healthy, so some animals, plants, etc. Humans aren’t necessary and likely to be a detriment more than a plus. Without humans to entertain so many businesses would be unnecessary, like restaurants, religion, so many of the things being closed down due to lockdowns. Is it a coincidence. It must be, right? But, apparently, humans do make good batteries and machines would need power, of that kind, more than any other resource.

However far off the rails this idea is, there is still the thing about mental slavery. Freedom of speech, freedom to gather, freedom to travel, and etc are gone. Freedom of speech seems to be a term, like a flag they fly, when they want to condone being rude to each other. It’s ok to beat someone verbally because we have freedom of speech. But, don’t say something we don’t agree with, you have no freedom to say anything we don’t like and you will be pressured to conform. Like a good little battery.

Ice Bubbles in Alberta

In a post about beautiful places around the world, Alberta is one of those selected.

EarthPorn – 11 Mindblowing Locations You Won’t Believe Are Really on Earth

It’s beautiful, interesting, and explosive. This remote lake in Alberta is home to ‘ice bubbles’ – bubbles formed when methane gas freezes as its approaches the surface of the lake.

The plants at the bottom of Abraham Lake produce methane – a highly explosive gas that rises to the surface of the water during winter. As it approaches the surface, it freezes and creates the incredible ‘ice bubbles’ that make the lake such as popular destination for photographers.

Modern Schools Teach Sex and Leave Young People Ignorant

What is the purpose of school for children any more? They don’t seem to know English (the language, spelling, etc), or history, or geography. Schools must (I hope) still teach enough for them to function but ask them questions… there is a LOT they don’t know. Especially here in Ontario. My nieces and nephew don’t know basic Canadian history or geography, and they are not taught Canadian spelling and language arts. Test your own children, can they spell, locate on a map and tell you something about the Canadian province of Saskatchewan (even those who live in Saskatchewan, though I’d hope they would know more/better).

I taught my nieces and nephews about Canadian history, geography, spelling and cursive writing. (Typing/ keyboarding is no longer taught now either. Children are expected to be proficient due to frequent computer/Internet use. I find that sad). Of course, there is still far more they don’t know. The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know, yet. But, basic things like finding the provinces and territories on the map. Knowing the capitals and how to spell it all. Why isn’t that taught in schools? The schools we pay for with our tax money. But, that’s just part of it. I want them to know basic Canadian things and have a good general education before they graduate into high school and then onto college, university or a job.

The kids do seem to be taught a lot about sex. Still not told condoms are NOT 100% effective. That always comes as a surprise to them. I tell them about that when they hit high school age. I know schools delve into all of that early, far too early, and make it something the children research on their own, on the Internet of course, the source of such great and reliable (pornographic) information. But, the school does not teach other important things which we used to learn at school, not only reading, writing, arithmetic, simple science, regional history, and geography. But things like hygiene, good posture, penmanship, good sportsmanship. I taught my nephews and nieces about hygiene, even at high school age they didn’t seem to know basic things about being clean, walking (picking up their feet versus walking like a troll) and standing/sitting without slouching, and speaking clearly (good elocution). I can remember that being part of what I learned in school. My Mother and Grandmother also learned about those things and told all of us.Schools don’t seem to do that any more.

Ironic that modern schools teach children a lot about sex, gender based on stereotypes, sexual fetishes, etc but it is now left to parents and family members to teach children about reading, writing, arithmetic, science, hygiene, posture, etc. All those hours children and young people spend in school, even now during the so called pandemic, but they don’t seem to be learning about anything that really matters, just how to fuck themselves and others. What a waste of time. What are schools setting our young people up for in life? What are they capable of doing, when the schools say they have graduated.

Test the young people, see what they know and where they learned it. I found more about condoms than I ever cared to know, or needed in 50+ years including being married some of those years, but they did not know how to spell Saskatchewan. I learned that early and I made sure I remembered it. Canadian spelling, history, geography were things that mattered to me. They still do. What matters to young people now when their education seems focused on sex, not things that young people really need to know to be successful, or at least competent, in life.

Talk to people who hire young people for jobs. They can give you some real stories about our young people, not being able to work, even at basic tasks, not being able to read, write or figure out simple things. Some of them on drugs, prescription drugs, which leave them unable to function. Some so addicted to their cell phone they just lean against a wall and say anything more is too much for them to handle. (These are actual cases, real cases, which my sister has experienced as a local employer over the past few years). What are schools doing to this generation of young people? It seems to me schools are failing, badly.

Note, I do see wonderful young people and feel very proud of them, happy to meet them and hear they are doing well, feeling good and happy. I wish that for all the young people.

Did you Know About Milk Tokens?

Found at an Etsy shop with this information:

From the late 19th century through the 1960s and 1970s, dairy distributors of Canada issued tokens as monetary substitutes for convenient home delivery. They also served as advertising.

Kemptville, I think, is now part of Barrie, Ontario. So a bit more local history for Ontario. I didn’t know there were tokens like this. But, I do remember milk still being delivered when I was a kid living in what is now the eastern edge of Scarborough, Ontario. It used to be Port Union, but not known by the name of the original town any more.

Dead People Can’t Buy Alcohol

Note: I do know there is a virus. But, there are a LOT of viruses we could be having a pandemic for. Bigger things could have been pandemics around the world: AIDs, polio, the flesh eating bacteria, SARs, swine flu, bird flu, and so many, many others – but they were downplayed. The public was told not to worry and just go on about their business. Businesses were NOT shut down. People were NOT forced to isolate and stay home for over a year.The media did not obsessively report statistics and every tiny bit of information over and over and over again. Panic mongering did NOT happen.

I strongly believe the panic promoted by the media, and lockdowns caused by the government, due to this virus are far overdone and far more of a threat than the virus. It is not a deadly virus. Most people do not die or even know they have it until a less than accurate/reliable test tells them they had it. Have you noticed that the deaths reported are “covid-related” that means they did NOT die from covid and probably did not even have the virus. How many could be called lockdown-related instead? Probably a lot more than the media will report.

The media is promoting the hell out of this and governments are sucking it up. Why? That I don’t know. The Ontario government is spending billions keeping people solvent after forcing businesses to close. However, don’t get out your violins. They are also making billions of tax dollars from the sale of alcohol.

Somehow the LCBO and Beer Stores have been essential but churches, fitness centres, beauty salons, and so many other places where people could have found healthier options, are closed. How can anyone claim alcohol is essential in a time people are depressed, anxious, etc? More suicides, more beatings/ violence and more drunk driving. Not being reported of course.

There are frequent ads on TV for suicide prevention. Not about other issues, like drunk driving. But, I can understand the push about suicide – dead people can’t buy alcohol. The only other government ads I have seen are about covid, mostly making covid look fatal and deadly, when it actually is not. The death statistics from the past year are not very different from the death statistics the year before, before covid. Although covid statistics are reported constantly, no other statistics like this are reported at all. Don’t you wonder how many people have been killed or maimed by drunk drivers, how many have died from other diseases/ viruses. There are endless diseases, viruses, bacteria, parasites which people can catch and spread but only covid makes the news (constantly pushed and promoted, panic mongering).

Why has travel outside of Canada not been stopped during this so called pandemic? Each time I get asked all the screening questions they ask if I have been outside of the province (Ontario) or the country. Reporters keep saying the cases they find stem from people who travelled. So, why has travel kept going while all the local businesses are forced to close. Close down the local economy to prevent the spread of a virus from travel, that does not make sense.

Speaking of travel and spreading things around, children with parents living apart are still being shuttled between two (or more) households. If the government were serious about stopping the spread of a virus don’t you think they would include children in the lockdown. Schools are closed but children from divorced/ separated parents are still shuffled around for court appointed visits. This has been going on from the beginning and I have not seen it make the news even once.

Last of all, if you are still reading, think about the homeless people. Although the media is covering people dying in long term care (the places people are put when they are expected to die or certainly not very healthy) there is almost no mention at all about the homeless people. Do you know the homeless shelters have been all but closed due to covid and the demand for social distancing. Instead of having the shelters be a source for homeless people to have food and shelter they are being sent back outdoors, without any help. Homeless people are dying just blocks away from the shelters because they have not allowed more than a few inside, keeping the capacity cut down far below what they were capable of before covid. I guess they all get lumped into covid-related deaths – a win for the covid statistics mongering, not so much for the people.

If you want to label my opinions as misinformation, fake news, etc. Go ahead. Join the masses who don’t think beyond what the media reports (word for word), the popular opinion being sold to the public, and don’t think for yourself. Live in a small box and tell everyone to “be safe”. You aren’t going to change my mind and I am very anti-mask! Masks cause asthma attacks and I’m tired of fighting with asthma because every place I go forces me to wear a mask which is not effective for preventing the spread of covid or anything else, including dust or allergens in the air.

Good luck to us all.