Re-Visiting The Winding Down Effect

 
Fall is finally here and it's a breath of fresh air. Halloween has passed with today being the Mexican day of the dead. It's nice not seeing everyone masked up. The past year or so has been quite trying to say the least. While things on the surface (in this regards) seems to be returning normal it's actually just revving up. 

 It's been awhile since my last post and I decided to expand a bit on the winding down effect. It's picked up pace which shouldn't come as a surprise to those capable of questioning the narrative. The dream of life is becoming evermore of a nightmare. The continual pressure to get jabbed or face loosing one's livelihood along with limited travel options are worsening while the resistance to this is minimal but growing. There's a lot of speculations that the jabs are for population control and time will reveal that to be true or not. If nothing else it's about limiting our ability to move about and be left alone which is bad enough. Either way - I'm not gonna comply and will likely loose my job as a resort. It's scary but anytime something like this is pushed with such an intensity something about it isn't right - whatever it is.  

 With my possible looming job situation quickly approaching it just drives home the point that I should've traveled more. I've never been under any delusions that all my years of working have proven fruitless - mainly because I've been earning unsustainable wages the whole time and while I lived frugally it still hasn't been enough to build up any savings. So much for that whole notion that any amount of money is better than none except perhaps if it's a matter of life and death and even then - if it's down to working just to feed one's self with little left for anything else then one really needs to re-evaluate whether or not they'd fair out better just putting on a back pack and living the life of a vagabond. While that might be appealing to some it certainly isn't for most people. 

Sadly, there's less jobs paying enough to live on and no amount of working overtime is going to change that. It's been this way for decades and the socioeconomic engineers seem bound and determined to speed up their course of action of winding it all down. If there was any doubt that I should've taken a similar path as Daniel Suelo (and others like him) it's since been extinguished. That guy was determined to live freely and being a wage slave to anyone (including himself) wasn't an option. Good for him. With the way things are going others will likely come to this conclusion. 

While the false left right paradigm has been building up over the years it's especially bad now. What's termed "leftists" now has become intolerant of anyone it deems as right wing which would include many that identify as left of center. On the other side you have the hardcore evangelical Christian zealots (not to be confused with all Christians) clinging on to every new form of fear porn that becomes vouge. It's quite disheartening. It's no wonder more people are just keeping to themselves nowadays with the whole plandemic only speeding it up. It's easier to not sympathize with a society that's less interactive with one another and adheres to ideologies inharmonious with the Tao so to speak and that's as applicable to the leftists as it is to those that lean more to the right end of the political spectrum. 

So now with the closing cliches ....

 I bid everyone a farewell. Enjoy life as much as possible and while I wouldn't recommend anyone to stick their head in the sand (like an ostrich) - pretending all is well in this world it's best to slow down and occasionally stop to smell the roses. ☕ 🥧

The Winding Down Effect

Wind down (from the Merriam-Webster dictionary)

 verb

Definition of wind down

intransitive verb

1: to draw gradually toward an end the party was winding down

2: RELAX, UNWIND - wind down with a good book

transitive verb

: to cause a gradual lessening of usually with the intention of bringing to an end.

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It's like a drawing in.  A slowing down. A cocooning. Less socializing. Less interest in what's going on outside one's own surroundings and it's happening not just on a personal level but a collective one as well. I've noticed it and so have the few people that I still interact with on a somewhat regular basis.

What's the cause? Mainly high speed internet that can easily be accessed via smart phones,tablets,Google Home,Amazon Echo,and of course computers. I wrote about this in my last posting but social changes has increased significantly since then and that was just a few years ago. It's become quite noticeable in my own current demographic domain. The Hispanic population has grown by leaps and bounds and it's now common to hear Spanish spoken on a regular basis. In addition to that blight now claims the bulk of the towns in my area. It's not that I didn't see the handwriting on the wall it's just now it's so apparent.

Change has always been in the air but it's become too hard to ignore. On a personal level - I've lost loved ones - one that I was in regular contact with and one that I wasn't. I'm talking about my dad that past away this past May and my grandmother that passed away in late August. It's sad. Not just because they were family and I knew them on a personal level but because they were born and grew up in more intact societies. Their numbers are quickly dwindling. It's bizarre because the man I most admired growing up is no longer here and my grandmother who was the embodiment of  what it means to be a real lady (very nurturing and thought of others before herself) is now gone. While that's just how it goes and part of the cycle of life it still doesn't mean there's not an empty space in your life whenever they're gone.

"Love is like a flower, even the most beautiful kind dies." - Till Lindemann

Just observing one's surroundings and it's quite apparent that things are coming to a close and what's in store for me individually and for society at large is anyone's guess but it looks pretty bleak. When you turn on the radio what little new "music" playing is utterly atrocious - lacking any real forethought or talent. This isn't just me getting older either. It's definitely digressed and I've noticed the same in fashion or rather - the lack of it. Not sure if these are signs of a social collapse or something much worse - leading to a stone age or the opposite - a technocracy. It's depressing if you think about it too much but I'm not one to stick my head in the sand and pretend everything is okay.

So while I'm not backtracking on my disdain for the positive thinking movement and trying to convince myself that everything is hunky dory I just can't dwell on the negativity. It's too much. When things weren't this degraded both socially and economically it was easier to ponder the likely gloom and doom of it all but as we draw nearer to that probability the overwhelming realization that that's our possible fate is a bit much for me to stomach. 😕 This used to be a wonderful country as did most other countries but decades of social engineering, diversity, and fiat currency has changed that. It might be deemed offensive for some to accept but it doesn't make it untrue.

So to bring this posting to a close - my aim is to focus on more upbeat topics as much as possible as well as my adventures in this game called life. 😉