St. Catharines, Ontario
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About Me
A long time social worker, recreation coordinator, traveler and thinker.

Have lived in and traveled to many places which helps keep the conversation going. Speaking of which, conversation is a hobby of mine so get in touch!
Work-related Skills
I lead River & Wine Adventure trips:
winetourniagaraadventure.com
airbnb.ca/experiences/655392
Other Skills
Writing, Listening, Conversation, Recreation Coordination, Being appreciative
Hobbies
Hiking, Traveling, Canoeing, Conversation
Interests
Belief Systems, Conformity, Misuse of Power
Ken
 

.068% active cases of COVID in Ontari...


.068% active cases of COVID in Ontario which translates to 1 in 1470 infected.

Classroom of 30 = 0 infected
Restaurant of 100 = 0 infected
Workplace of 150 = 0 infected
Hockey arena of 200 = 0
School of 500 = 0
Church service of 800 = 0
Apartment complex of 1000 = 0
Grocery store of 2000 = 1
Mall of 3000 = 2
Concert hall of 5000 = 3
Stadium of 10,000 = 6
Town of 20,000 = 12
City of 100,000 = 60
Province of 10 million = 6800
Country of 35 million = 24,000 active COVID, most of whom won’t die.

The knee-jerk belief that “Even one death is too many” is spurious given the volume of calamities rendered by restrictions, more prevalent causes of death and deeper forces of harm and destruction in our culture.

What’s again: unreasonable restrictions imposed upon the majority who honor and spread - rather than oppose - oppression.

It was expected of us to do as told and suffer consequences because neither church nor school socialized us to challenge the word of Rulers. Trained to accept and obey, and threaten those who don’t, we behave accordingly.

Our world: power decides without exchange.
What’s not debatable are the numbers or that the minority threatens the majority to shame neighbors into silence.

Answer this:

1. Why am I made to sign into a cafe but not a store?

2. Why am I made to wear a mask in a cafe except at my
table?

3. Why is my neighbor reporting to police how many cars
are in my driveway?

4. Why are the media not allowing dissenting medical
experts to weigh in?

5. How are the banks the four most profitable corporations
in Canada and what are their roles in these decisions?

6. Why aren’t people and businesses broadcasting
dissension?

7. Why do people accept media presentations?

8. Why are people so poor at research?

9. Why are people so afraid of questioning?

10. Why are we critical of the government regarding so
many policies but those related to COVID?

11. Why are we demonized and censored?

12. Why are you allowed to shame me for presenting facts
while I’m not allowed to shame you for harmful conformity?

13. Where are all the self-stylized “radicals” who claim to
reject the mainstream?

14. Where do all the adorable celebrities stand now?

15. Where are all the most powerful media personalities
now?

16. Where are all your media-made heroes now?

Actual heroes are people who reject rules-by-proxy, i.e. decisions by the few to “protect” the many.

Any rule presented without debate as a moral imperative is ethically suspicious. We point to the Vietnam War (and draft) as examples.

When the government decrees you stop feeding yourself, will you? Of course you will. And it won’t matter. If you can’t think for yourself what good are you?

Right now: are you right and good and by whose criteria?

"Whose" criteria it shouldn’t be. "What" criteria it ought to be, i.e. the numbers. And the numbers do not necessitate isolation, quarantine, mask-wearing or social-distancing.

Regardless of numbers our ethical duty as humans is the application of critical mind, research and common sense to organisms both individual and social.

I’m not “paranoid”; you’re narrative-impaired and ethically questionable.

Censorship is back; which side are you on?

Should you shame or report me for composing an argument with statistics you are not only an enemy of mine but mind, truth and freedom.

Speaking of truth I remind:

1469 out of 1470 don’t have COVID
Classroom of 30 = 30 healthy
Restaurant of 100 = 100 healthy
Workplace of 150 = 150 healthy
Hockey arena of 200 = 200 healthy
School of 500 = 500 healthy
Church service of 800 = 800 healthy
Apartment complex of 1000 = 1000 healthy
Grocery store of 2000 = 1999 healthy
Mall of 3000 = 2998 healthy
Concert hall of 5000 = 4996 healthy
Stadium of 10,000 = 9993 healthy
Town of 20,000 = 19,986 healthy
City of 100,000 = 99,932 healthy
Province of 10 million = 9,993,200 healthy
Country of 35 million = 34,976,200 healthy

It’s unethical enough you’ve relinquished your mind but I’ll be damned if you take mine.

THE NUMBERS IN FULL:
65,075 COVID cases total
- 55,978 resolved
- 3050 dead
= 6047 active cases

6047 out of 14,570,000 (Ontario)
= .0004 cases
= .04% of population has COVID (even lower number than .068% above)
Ken
 

there’s a cafe on St. Paul most e...


there’s a cafe
on St. Paul
most embracing
of them all.

owner’s eyes
behind partitions
lumps my throat
into sedition.

if full this room
not one infected
a thousand bullied
keep one protected.

there’s a cafe
on St. Paul
most concerned
of them all.

take my name,
take my number
will my brains
into a slumber

“when we say
that up is down,
wear this mask
to hide your frown.”

there’s a cafe
on St. Paul
most concerning
of them all.

take my temp
take my pic
take my blood
now water thick

delete my face
delete my time
delete your people
delete this rhyme.

there’s a cafe
on St. Paul
saddest casualty
of them all.
Ken
 

"Please stop by anytime" If you do...


"Please stop by anytime"

If you don't know him you're missing out. If you do know him you already know that Terry Phillips is a Regional Treasure.

New to the area I escape Hamilton regularly for the Twenty Valley and sit in Jordan Hollow Park to plan my new River & Wine venture. There I take in the beauty of the hollow and peer across at a curious little hamlet.

I've never seen anything like it. Boo's Eatery, little houses in a half-circle, vendor tables.

When I move to St. Catharines I need a place to position a sign for my tours. Eyeing up Boo's two years I never stop to ask, fearing refusal. Failing to form reliable industry partnerships I expect rejection from yet another small-hearted, small-minded Small Town Miser.

In time I'm desperate. After twenty-four long months of sluggish COVID-era revenues I screw up the courage to engage. I find a Facebook Page for the flea market and email one "Terry Phillips." I ask if possible to rent a table and/or space to erect a sign for promotions. I click SEND and nervously await the "No" so many love to give.

His response immediate:

Hi Ken

Please stop by any time.

I am sure we can help out.

Terry

Oh
My
Gosh.

In one brief message this Man has snapped the iron gate of pandemic prison. So frustrated with what I couldn't do for two years this short note catapults my spirits.

To dissect:

Please - request is not an imposition but an opportunity to serve

stop by - face to face, open door policy, "don't feel intimidated"

any time - without restrictions. Ego-free. "Come connect. All welcome. Don't fear. I'm here for you."

I am sure we can help out - unlike others he's not looking for a reason to not help. In his mind to deny a beggar would be hurtful. He's certain there's a way "we" (his entire family) can help

Terry's twelve words embody a special essence in a complex world of self-consciousness, territories, titles, bureaucracies, gratuitous rules, reputations at stake, game playing, self-importance, exploitation of opportunities to lord over people and the lust for power.

When we meet I offer a small sum as rent but he says, "No way, no fee."

I say, "What would you do if I forced twenty bucks into your pocket?"

"Well," he smiles, "You'd be escorted off the property."

I laugh.

Finally a man unmotivated by reciprocation with humor to boot!

Terry Phillips, I quickly learn, simply does what's needed - within reason. Mobbed for donations of things and money and time Terry doesn't need another demand. My deep appreciation is not exaggerated.

More than what he does however is how he does. Terry's easiness reminds me of every person who rolled through my parent's house to converse with our family of eight. "No need to knock," Terry seems to say. "Just let yourself in. What's on your mind?"

So easy is he to be around I make excuses to pop over just to talk. Good conversationalists are hard to come by but Terry is not one to monologue. In Terry I find a kindred talker as eager to absorb as he is to share. His approach to the community is consistent with his approach to business. "I like to hire people who know more than me," he says.

If only more posh local establishments exuded the same reason.

As a result he's a magnet for all levels. I marvel at the revolving door that is his kingdom, a never-ending stream of smiles, dogs, laughs, banter, gossip, love and trust. Warmed that he lets anyone join the altar of chatter - while in progress, no less - I'm also annoyed when interrupted. I must accept that Terry is to be shared, not occupied. While he's available and valuable to me he's those to everyone else as well. And while some may only need him for a word or a hug, some need him for longer. Either way he meets all with solid eye contact which means he's all ears and, if necessary, all in.

"I'm just a country bumpkin who enjoys life," he says, lighting a smoke.

He must know he's more than that. Truth is he's mayor, pastor, friend, talk show host, comedian, sage, owner, inclusionist, enthusiast, conversationalist, therapist, realist, professor, pragmatist, idealist, approachable, likable and human.

Sunday morning I solicit advice amid pine trees by a fire pit. It's peaceful for the moment but the conveyor belt of locals now roll out of cars and shout hello or toss a joke or two to which he responds in kind.

Most symbolic is that Terry lives outdoors. Whenever I motor through the hollow there he inevitably is among trees and people in the life and village of his creation - priests and reverends take note that the connection between God and the people is daily visibility, not weekly speeches; to be a small part of a big circle - not a looming guru at an amplified podium. Terry's Hollow is not a stage facing the masses but a dot in an O that keeps him equal, neither self-promoting nor seeking nominations. Because, hell, he might need you one day and wouldn't be ashamed to ask.

Terry Phillips is not just the heart of the region but an artery available to everyone. More important than his enterprises and events (pictured above) is his steady and unending accessibility - a breath of fresh humanity in an inward-looking world of privacy fences and anonymous neighbors.

Put simply: Terry Phillips puts the "omm" in community.

No doubt he's a Regional Treasure - and everyone who knows him yearns to preserve him
Ken
 

Loneliness - An Introduction Lonel...


Loneliness - An Introduction

Loneliness is the product and parent of many problems.

Counteract loneliness and eradicate a portion of addictions, abuses, wastes and illnesses.

Depression is all the rage but loneliness its prime mover.

All the talk about depression but no talk about its source: loneliness.

Not only are we isolated from each other but our truest and most ethical selves.

Excessive aloneness begs excessive consumption.

Being alone has limits. That limit is loneliness, introduced first by school - albeit intended by school.

School pulls children from parents then separates siblings into levels.

Sitting in a desk is isolating, conversing against rules.

That children congregate at recess demonstrates need for togetherness.

Dividing children into cubicles is not only unhealthy and regressive but poor preparation for the workplace or world peace.

What's in the child's mind remains there. It is not shared with classmates or the state.

Alone in his cubicle the child ingests content dictated by the state without opportunity to talk about - much less question - it.

Student life is lonely.

Studying is lonely.

Reading and writing and math require no interaction.

Homework further dominates minds and time, further blocks needs for company and conversation, further disrupts mental, emotional, physical and spiritual development.

Adolescence + high school = depression.

High School causes mental illness.

High School not only fails to comfort the hyper-sensitive, self-conscious, hyper-critical, insecure or poorly adjusted but exacerbates these adolescent idiosyncrasies.

High School is the unnatural stage upon which adolescence tortures aspiring adults.

Alas the cause of excessive malaise, anger, inferiority, resentment and confusion is the forced fusion of adolescence and high school.

If a teenager knew that life didn't have to "suck", that there was an alternative to student life he would escape it.

By law, aspiring adults are controlled by teachers. If not academically proficient or socially gifted one develops a negative self-concept. Alas, worthlessness in a room of perceived winners is a lonely feeling.

To be humiliated with low scores and reprimands is to feel alone.

High School artificially extends childhood, interferes with maturation and stimulates protracted adolescence.

The belief that "children grow up too fast" is false.

First World children don't grow up.

Growing up means self-sufficiency, being real versus synthetic, being active versus passive.

Before the invention of high school, children grew up at a normal rate engaging in the world through work essential for survival.

Children felt important to the family while learning young that life was work.

Through employment teenagers felt connected to co-workers and family.

Through schoolwork teenagers are disconnected from peers and family while denied responsibility.

High School/Loneliness = aspiring adults trapped in a holding pattern.

Treated like a child the aspiring adult disconnects from who he is, his identity replaced by what's allowed or required by the environment.

School experience is not only cruel, it's oppressive and God-playing.

School is and plays God with the fragile psyches of aspiring adults.

In short School is God which means students are not.

The God State doesn't empower but exerts power. No God State would empower youth to challenge the God State.

To survive, the God State must convince people of their needs for instruction, direction and correction.

"Sit down. Keep quiet. Follow."

It's not hyperbole to assert that the God State prefers a docile populace without the self-love and strength to ignore or challenge the God State.

The less worthy one feels the greater the need for the God State.

Adolescents feel so meaningless, unproductive, disconnected and directionless they rely upon the God State for affirmation, reward, criticism, identity, information, guidance, progress, survival, success, evolution and - worst of all - direction.

The God State derives power from followers who need direction.

Historically, the direction-needy don't tend to threaten governments, banks, corporations, employers, churches, education or other dominant entities.

A teenager's involuntary hatred of school demonstrates its inhumanity.

It's not just the content of school that frustrates and dissatisfies. It's school's format:

1. To sit in rows and columns (versus circles)
2. To not converse (versus listening, connecting, being heard and seeking to understand)

School does not encourage kindness nor benefit community. Instead, school fosters competition which results in loneliness.

Loneliness is never a result of kindness.

A lonely child is a sign of an unloving culture.

An unloving culture births bullies, for a phenomenon can only exist in a nurturing environment.

Bullying is nurtured.

The School Bully wouldn't exist outside school. That's why he's called the School Bully.

But it takes a bully to create one. Indeed school is a bully.

How to defend against school? Be a bully.

Bullying processes negative emotions caused by school experience.

The School Bully demands attention and power while experiencing pleasure from causing pain - not much different from government officials.

One bully begets the other.

With all the pleasure a bully gets from causing pain there's nothing lonelier, his only fix more attention - by bullying.

The key word in "school shooter" - overlooked by everyone - is "school."

A school shooting is a response to intolerable suffering and shortage of support.

While loneliness ultimately pulls the trigger, adults point to external influences as if home life causes a kid to kill at school.

A kid doesn't kill people he loves.

A child walks to school alone. Stands at the bus stop alone. Enters class alone. Sits alone in a room full of strangers he's not allowed to talk to, walks home alone, sits in his room alone and thinks alone.

"I can't wait
till I get home
to pass the time
in my room alone."
- Adam's Song, Blink 182

School is neither fulfilling nor enjoyable.

School brings not peace nor togetherness but anxiety.

We pretend that school doesn't cause feelings.

We think kids shouldn't have feelings about school.

School provokes feelings toward authority, systems, self and others.

The unloved child is doomed to feel desolate and rejected - and alone, an identity formed by daily trauma that remains a lifetime.

The God State is largely responsible for the identity of failing students and their subsequent decisions about careers, partners and behaviors. How could a school not take responsibility?

If school were not responsible what would be the point of school? The point of school is to be responsible, to impact life. The more impact school has the more successful and important school feels.

Alas the God State feels unsuccessful and unimportant if it doesn't impact as many as possible, as much as possible.

Parents do not recognize their child's loneliness nor understand its source.

Adults socialized by school to believe in it cannot see its nature. Not only do adults believe in school they pay for it.

Brainwashed to believe that school is good for children, challenging education is sacrilegious.

Teacher-bashing this piece is not; school surveillance this is.

Few see the obvious, that school is culpable for teen anger, substance abuse, violence, bullying, self-harm, depression, suicide, gangs, cults and school shootings.

Astoundingly (!) school believes itself savior by delivering programs to address all of the above.

Astoundingly (!) the guilty are blind to the part they play, then condescendingly preach solutions - to D.A.R.E kids to avoid drugs and violence.

It's mind-boggling how stupid school is.

No teenager chooses depression.

No teenager chooses loneliness.

No teenager chooses much, including identity.

This is psychological warfare.

Over six hours per day, five days per week, ten months per year for thirteen critical developmental years the healthy become unhealthy.

While pieces of school are beneficial many are detrimental.

Astonishingly no studies were ever conducted to prove school's necessity or benefits.

Dangerously (!) no studies assess school's impact on child development, identity or emotions, or explore the correlations between school experience and loneliness, school experience and choices, school experience and identity. . .

Every community/government program is justified by studies, but not school.

School neutralizes the young through daily confinement.

School is Standardized Spiritual Suicide, every desk an electric chair with the State at the switch.

Trace your loneliness back, all the way back to your first day of school when the rule of the state drew you from your parents and released you thirteen years later with an identity shaped by unnatural living.

Parents pressure children into education and conformity, both barriers to self-love and love.

"We just want you to have something," they think. "Something is better than nothing."

Wrong. Something is not better than nothing.

We already have something: each other.

We have the capacity to love but school disrupts that potential.

How parents should express love to children:

1. Resist adopting out to the state
2. Facilitate self-love and sustainability
3. Encourage critical thinking
4. Help process the incompatibility between Natural Self and the World

Aspiring Adults should not relinquish the self to the God State because bowing to government is not the basis of democracy.

Aspiring Adults should love themselves in spite of pressures from school, church, the state, media, peers and the world.

Aspiring Adults who stay true to themselves form sound relationships and - together - resist pressures from dominant systems.

The self-loving ergo self-directed are inherent enemies of the state. A healthy, happy populace challenges the state.

Leaders cannot control one who is or feels equal to them.

Leaders cannot control a connected mass of ethical enemies.

The goal of the God State is not a connected mass of equals. The "'God State" implies inequality.

God State depends upon inequality (between leaders and followers) and disconnection (among followers). Hence connection is never taught.

Aspiring Adults are expected to learn relationship-building on their own.

Key to inner and world peace is healthy relationships comprised of constructive conversation.

Loneliness is the point you need to talk to someone.

Conversing means stimulating, understanding, supporting, laughing and idea sharing - in short, filling needs.

Quite simply:

Loneliness is cured by love gotten through relationships built on conversation. Besides eating, drinking and breathing the skill we need most is conversation. Not communication. Conversation.

A great number don't know how to converse.

If the state preferred a connected populace, conversation would be part of the curriculum and format of education.

Conversation is the connector.

Without conversation, without everything.

Quality conversation invites attention and love.

The more love in our lives the happier. The less love, the lonelier, the more depressed.

Admitting depression is more acceptable than loneliness because the latter implies unlovability.

Depression is considered a disease fixed by mood-enhancers while loneliness is not.

Depression is blamed on chemistry or trauma. Loneliness is not. Loneliness is blamed on the self we abandoned to fit in.

Loneliness induces self-talk that further harms the mind.

Loneliness never rewards itself.

So many elements of culture contribute to loneliness it's a wonder more don't admit it.

In the old days:

1. Communities were tighter. Today, neighbors are anonymous

2. TV, internet and phones didn't exist. Every minute watching television we're not in the real world. We're connecting to false personas. An hour of TV or internet is one less hour of giving or getting love or attention.

Plus: people didn't commute, school's role was diminished, a parent stayed home and multiple generations lived together.

Today, connection with neighbors is down while fence building is up.

What's not wrong with this picture?

Modern living has made loneliness less avoidable.

It is difficult to accept loneliness because it isn't natural.

With all the barriers to happiness we don't need loneliness too.

Happiness comes from love and joy or the ability to cope without them. Which is difficult when lonely.

Indeed, loneliness is prevented by being with people with the capacity to love.

As there are no classes about how to be a friend or partner there are no classes about how to love.

Instead, we're taught to perform in school, be employable, be attractive, follow trends, be religious, achieve money, acquire status, obey laws, conform and be successful.

Dominant systems guilt humans into feeling unworthy - as a means of control.

Education God:
Without control can't run a class. When a student misbehaves or scores poorly the teacher employs guilt to cease behaviors.

Church God:
Without control can't run a congregation. One must need to be saved, forgiven or accepted. To keep people coming the preacher facilitates just enough guilt and just enough relief.

Employer God:
Without control can't run a business. Supervisors guilt staffers if they show up late, don't produce quality or don't work hard enough.

State God:
Without control can't run the people. The inferior can never feel superior. People must feel unworthy to govern themselves. Government fines, imprisons and threatens the non-complicit.


We are guilted into caring more about self-image than ourselves - or others.

Guilt shouldn't come from others when we ignore their manipulation. Guilt should come from within when we abandon ourselves.

We guilt each other then sell solutions to feel better:

If you just get more education. . .
If you just come to church. . .
If you just own/do all the trendy things. . .

Loneliness escalates when - after following the leader or crowd - we feel even lonelier. Not only did we sell out to feel less lonely we became more lonely as a result - and now feel stupid for having bought into impossible solutions created by the same ones who made us feel worthless.

Then we feel guilty for believing in everything but ourselves.

Anybody concerned about your loneliness would tell you to stop striving to be anything but your truest and most ethical self. But what state, church, influencer, workplace or corporation wants that?

Anybody truly concerned about your loneliness would sell you nothing but the concept of self-love and acceptance.

One's self-love and acceptance is another's grief. Self-love makes one stronger - than another.

People say, "Love yourself first then others will." This is false. One must be loved to love oneself.

When loved by parents we love ourselves.

No child choses to feel unloved.

Instead of loving the weak, the strong guilt them.

We're socialized to use, influence and win.

Through the ages we've been taught to believe more in deities than ourselves.

Implored to admire spiritual heroes we're hardly taught to emulate them.

Certainly Jesus is about love and tolerance but also about questioning. Jesus rejected oppressive traditions and ideologies, and spoke truth to power - actions children are discouraged from doing.

Jesus did not respect hypocrites and for that he suffered and died at their hands.

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John reveal Jesus' intolerance for corruption but that's not how Christianity presents Jesus.

Because Jesus loved himself - and people - he did not feel guilt for breaking oppressive rules set by the elite.

Christianity's misrepresentation of Jesus has devastated centuries of minds while failing to inspire revolution.

Who is to blame for a person feeling guilty in the eyes of God? Certainly not the person.

When we self-analyze through the scope of an angry God we loathe ourselves to the point of abandonment.

Failing to be neither perfect nor oneself we descend into greater loneliness.

Self-haters resort to being alone to avoid the failure of being unlikable.

To avoid feeling ignored the lonely reject; paranoid that nobody can be trusted they stop reaching out, preferring to remain lonely.

Sometimes the lonely try too hard then feel frustrated when not accepted. Then blame themselves for trying to impress the contemptible.

Loneliness is a vicious cycle.

I am alone. I want to be with people but cannot be my truest and most ethical self. When I can't be myself they judge me. When they judge me I resent them. Even more for judging the person I'm being versus the person I am. I resent them more for not trying to help, in fact for taking advantage.

In pain I cause pain. I reject and insult. I push people away then blame them for not understanding. I justify my distance yet condemn myself for not being the person God created; and for pushing people away; for choosing loneliness.

The extremes:

1. Light loneliness of self-loving people who find it hard to connect

2. Heavy inescapable loneliness of the unworthy who cannot connect

There will never be a day that humans don't need attention.

Attention online is not as strong as in the room.

No amount of distraction cures loneliness as loneliness is always waiting to happen.

Nobody cares if you feel lonely. If so, you wouldn't feel lonely. People would help you feel less lonely.

"Life is about survival," some say, "and if loneliness must be to survive then so be it."

But to what lengths and at what cost? One can rationalize that loneliness is the price of lifestyle. But what good is lifestyle if it's both product and perpetuator of loneliness?

We work long hours to afford luxuries needed to escape the loneliness that comes from working long hours.

Loneliness is part of the reason we delay retirement.

"What else would I do?" we say.

The lonely feel unloved, unheard and unknown.

We do not live to be unloved, unheard and unknown.

We live to love and be loved, grow and stimulate growth, and be known.

We have names, personalities, gifts and time. So we are here to be loved, heard, felt and known.

Without love and attention we are less happy.

The less happy, the less loving - for an unloved person cannot love.

No love gets no love.

And no love to share invites loneliness and induces pain - or at least fails to assuage pain.

Pain creates pain.

Victims lose love.

Loss of love is love lost.

The less loving, the less loved, the lonelier - the further from peace.

We strive to impress and attract - in essence, to not be lonely.

Either we attract others to who we aren't or we don't attract others to who we are. Either way we end up lonely.

The superficial attract the superficial. The real attract judgement.

As a result people get their identity at work as directed. It's easier to be directed. It's safer. A name tag, uniform, duties and standard operating procedures comprise a defined role we adopt with ease.

Socialized by school to rely on external sources for identity so many derive theirs through their title and possessions - drifting further from authenticity.

Authenticity can pull a person either way. To loneliness or love.

The authentic is the minority.

The more authentic, the less like the masses.

The less like masses, the less accepted and included.

The lonelier.

Conformists live to be accepted by people who don't really love them.

We take fake over loneliness.

In fact, we'll take anything over loneliness.

Eventually relationships among the non-authentic disintegrate and lead to the loneliness they'd been avoiding by being superficial.

Which is how marriages end.

Couples lose love of and from their spouse.

What precedes divorce is the loss of love toward one's greatest source and object of love.

Loving is sacred.

Being loved is sacred.

To lose the sacred is to be lonely.

Fears of loneliness and neglect solved with one act: marriage. Marriage can be the cure but not for long or all.

We must love ourselves in the presence of love.

More important than attraction to others is being ourselves in their presence - a lifetime.

That's love. But hard to find or keep. Because humans are not always attractive - especially when superficial.

It's difficult to love ourselves at our worst; to find someone else to do so near impossible.

Ironically, to prevent loneliness: we abandon ourselves to appear attractive.

To prevent loneliness we cover up our truest selves - which divides us against ourselves. We are spirits divided by mind.

Alas the true self - our actual self, essence, personality, character - is oppressed.

Which can't help but trigger depression.

The less sources of joy and love, the sadder.

The lonelier, the more prone to depression, to believing that life is neither worth living nor loving.

Loneliness and depression are neither punishments from God nor bad karma - but involuntary reactions to the state of our world.

Loneliness may result from being a certain way but it's never punishment.

Hunger is natural. Struggle is natural. Loneliness isn't.

Speech needs speech.

Love needs love.

Attention needs attention.

Joy needs joy.

Challenges, traumas, problems and faults need support, from others.

It's a travesty that anyone should be lonely for any amount of time much less millions much of the time.

The very complaint about loneliness implies the wish for it to disappear.

Had the Great Spirit intended us to be lonely - i.e. if loneliness was our primary aspiration - we wouldn't need love or help.

Not as serious as hunger, loneliness packs its share of pain causing suicide and overdose.

Knowing people starve we feel even worse about petty loneliness.

In the emotional hunger of loneliness we wonder if relief will ever come or if we should finally accept or end it.

It is unethical to suppress ourselves.

While we strive for approval our true self resents its unethical rejection.

Naturally there are times we must adjust for the situation but this isn't self-suppression. Self-suppression comes when we run counter to our intuition and inclinations toward decency.

Loneliness occurs when we hate not who we are - but who we've become and why.

When we say, do or believe what others want we stray from our truest self.

The most publicly accepted person could feel lonely by how they got there and who they have to be to stay there.

What would your Creator want of you?

To abandon or embrace yourself?

All human history: the minority control the majority - at gunpoint.

Since the beginning: ten leaders control ten thousand.

Heroes, radicals, revolutionaries, visionaries = one in a million.

One kid in thirty challenges the teacher.

1 mayor, 1 million people.

1 head of state, 350 million people.

1 owner, 1000 workers.

1 celebrity, 10,000 admirers.

1 influencer, 100,000 followers.

The less worthy we feel, the more desperate we are to belong, ethics be damned.

That's it.

Loneliness appears identifiable and reparable but it's neither. It's deeply embedded into civilization.

The United Kingdom has a Minister of Loneliness now.

The State that causes the epidemic creates a department to provide the vaccine.

This is tragic.

And why I created PeopleSharing: to keep the problem and solution in the hands of humans.

www.pplsharing.com isn't a cure-all and does little to remove the prime movers yet a modest attempt to provide alternatives to loneliness.

School, church, government, media and corporations won't change and don't care - in fact depend upon loneliness for their survival.

Alas, like many problems, this can only be solved by the people.
Ken
 

REMEMBRANCE DAY - DON'T RUN How st...


REMEMBRANCE DAY - DON'T RUN

How strong we used to be.

November 11 we appreciate the sacred but most especially our forefathers' strength.

Nothing more dangerous than war yet a small percentage - mostly young - commissioned to protect the rest.

In contrast: regarding the virus the reverse: an entire population decommissioned to protect the few - mostly old.

And so we retreated, masked, distanced, stayed home, closed shop, quarantined, questioned nothing and feared all.

Instead of going to war we surrendered minds both critical and emotional. And not in the name of freedom but safety. Safety from moral dilemmas. Safety in the face of freedom.

Ultimately we turtled, out of fear. The masses in fear. Of dying. Of less than 1% dying - our minds a long way from Normandy, 1944.

In World Wars we attacked and ransacked murderers, of millions. Now we roll over and play dead - as directed. But direction isn't all we're socialized to seek from the world. Add love, attention, belonging, purpose and identity (because retreating makes you nobody) - which means the modern "mental health crisis" is rooted in a severe absence of self-love.

In place of self-love we seek the rush of hits through social media, salary, title, promotions, accumulations, approval, etc. including consumption and addiction - also to fill gaps of superficial living and willful ignorance. Alas that "mental health crisis" we're too weak to fight.

No, we don't need any more attention to "mental health". What we need is the will to fight - especially the craving for approval. Only then will our moods swing, our characters crystalize, our nation evolve.

But, no. We resort to medications, temporary. Therapy, temporary. Rehabilitation temporary. Likes on Facebook temporary. Promotions temporary. Programs temporary. All external and none the solution. The only permanent solution self-love and grit.

Life, quite simply, is one long mental war, hundreds of battles of battles within battles. Buddha's first Noble Truth is "Life is suffering" while Jesus urges folks not to worry about tomorrow for "today has enough troubles of its own." Living is a grind on the mind, no doubt.

Existence is mental health.

Life is challenge, a revolving door of fear, depression, anxiety, confusion, instability, rejection, conflict, failure, boredom, loneliness, humiliation, disapproval, loss, illness, more failure, frustration, irritation, injustice and other problems, traumas, challenges and faults - forever testing mental health.

But when the going gets tough the going gets tougher when relying on external sources or solutions that break down over time - much like government restrictions or untested vaccines.

There's a correlation between self-love and mental health. You can't have one without the other. Both comprise the daily fight for our lives. So today we remember the warriors of world wars who didn't stop battling till victim or victor.

Remember they ran toward - rather than away from - the problem.

I'm afraid today we run away. Hence all the pot shops and mandates. Can't even deal with our own selves, now our own worst enemies.

Yes, we run from ourselves. And each other. Because the absence of love and trust has left us with nothing to love or trust. Which only doubles our problems, challenges, traumas and faults. Add to this our socialization to abandon the self and believe in the external to solve or distract - thus tripling our issues.

Yes, we're running from the problem because we've been socialized to blame, make excuses and wait for a cure.

Nothing is going to cure a "mental health crisis" except you because nobody can be your strength. Just ask any veteran suffering PTSD - the most severe of mental health crises suffered for our freedom to choose between fight or flight.

Don't run because your influencers and gurus and media and government tell you to.

Don't run, especially from a virus you don't understood toward a vaccine you don't understand.

Don't run, most especially from your critical or emotional minds or conscience.

Just don't run.

It's not what strong people do. They don't run from enemies, aggression, viruses, racism, sexism, name-calling, bullying, addictions, pressures, political correctness or any other problems, challenges, traumas or faults.

Your mental health is a direct result and cause of fight or flight.

If the ones we deployed to battle have taught us anything it's to run into bullets for the cause of right and rights.

After all, our minds are at stake.
Ken
 

MAJORITY V. HUMAN RIGHTS My upbrin...


MAJORITY V. HUMAN RIGHTS

My upbringing vs. that of the majority was to:                                                               

1. Fight injustice
2. Keep an eye on authority
3. Reject group mentality
4. Distrust government
5. Assume there's more to the media's story
6. Buck trends
7. Ask why
8. Defend oneself
9. Honor one's conscience
10. Be inclusive

If Canada's response to the pandemic has taught anything it's that the majority is raised to live in fear (including that of research) and strive for conformity.

And while the majority may complain about undemocratic systems, it neither seeks to understand nor opposes them - which is why children question little including the need to wear a mask outdoors. Clearly children aren't trained to be Human Rights Watchers but dutiful subjects of misleaders.

Behind those misleaders the majority is forever at variance with realism - not "reality" because unfortunately the Majority Party dictates reality. Realism is the effect of manufactured reality upon actual reality.

Realism is the reaction of Truth to Falsehood, the visceral response of our most intuitive Self to False Narratives and Superficial Living.

This Realism begins in school. Scooped up by yellow buses and escorted by crossing guards it's no wonder our future lemmings don't fight for themselves when rejected, judged or humiliated. But don't shoot the Messenger. Outside school's superficial world of prolonged childhood, social media is everything school isn't: a platform to speak, be oneself and process the pain/suffering of school's passionless irrelevance. Odd how the majority assumes the unreal world of school good, social media's portal to the real world bad.

Q. Since when is suppressing emotion (in school) good, and processing emotion (on social media) bad?

A. Since we started teaching children to be good students rather than good people.

No doubt there's no shortage of frustration for kids to process because school focuses not on spiritual, moral or emotional development (of which kids have limitless capacity) but on intellectual and academic development (of which kids have limited capacity). And there was no better place than the classroom to tackle the ethics of stay-at-home-orders, business closures, mandatory vaccinations and other human rights violations.

But what does a kid know?

How he feels which - though he can't articulate it - is that school is at cross purposes of what life could be and is; that school is a form of Standardized Spiritual Suicide that trains incompetence and leaves the soul empty, the identity in disarray and the majority at odds with their original selves.

Not only is school superficial but not inclusive. School is exclusive, a club for the smart and compliant while academic failures and social squares live in fear of low grades and exclusion. Insulated from the Real World school is a grooming factory for The Majority Party, a Sub-Virtual Reality in which children are forced to ignore feelings of hatred toward school, stay disconnected, bury resentment, suffer failure and futility and, ultimately, fit in. It's no wonder so many take to social media to make life a little less painful or more exciting, pleasurable, meaningful or real.

Pressured by the majority to eat school's shit then feel weird when they can't, children feel inadequate. While studies determine the effect of social media upon children few studies have been conducted to learn school's impact on emotional, social and spiritual development. For a society that postures love of children (to nauseating excess) it's mind-boggling how much damage is done by the ignorance and sadism of the Majority Party. Few of them would agree but it's true: school is the problem, largely because the majority believe in it.

I know what you're thinking: to identify school as the problem is weird, sacrilegious even. And who wants to be weird? Certainly no image-concerned parent or rule-following kid indoctrinated by the Majority Party. Better to be picked on than develop an independent mind.

1. Fight injustice ?
2. Keep authority in check ?
3. Reject group mentality ?
4. Buck trends ? . . .

Now that's weird.

Ironically, we teach children not to talk to strangers yet leave them in a room with twenty-nine of the kind and authorities with unknown philosophies and values - thirteen years.

"Open wide, son," we say, "It's good for you."

Accepting the terms and conditions accorded to them by the Majority Party our children are told what to think, who to be, how to perceive each other and how to approach a virus bearing .07% chance of killing them.

Now, more about that Majority Party at the root of our problems: they who believe in the vaccine comprise the same majority that does much of the following:

drinks Coke
eats fast food regularly
watches TV
shops at Walmart
buys clothes worn once then donated to a thrift store with smug satisfaction
visits Disney World
takes cruises
wants to get rich
respects the rich
pressures their kids to make the NHL
thinks Tim Hortons coffee is good
goes to Cuba and stays on the resort in fear of most Cubans
never interfaces with the people of a developing country
worships celebrities
takes excess medications
abuses substances
wouldn't dare stay at an Airbnb
eats sugar
commutes one hour in a car
uses single-use cups
spends more than they earn
blows money on cosmetics
spends $50,000 on a wedding then gets divorced
supports factory farming
sustains sweatshops
wears labels
shops at COSTCO
shops on Amazon
competes with neighbors
prioritizes earnings over impact of position/corporation
lives in personal debt
doesn't understand how the economy works
is ignorant of the national debt
much much more. . .

Clearly the Majority Party has proven itself un-credible, its decision to get vaccinated as questionable as their behaviors and beliefs.

Yes, sadists our children will be, all of them raised in the image and likeness of our factory-farmed Majority Party pressuring the need for approval.

It worked for the Nazis till outsiders slaughtered the sheep (that were slaughtering sheep) and dislodged the shepherds. The vaccine already killed our sheep - ethically speaking, while the ethics of the shepherds, i.e. schools, were never present to begin with.

Just don't blame social media for meeting needs to release pain. Facebook, Instagram et al. only provide opportunities to vent which is why ranting about injustice isn't allowed or included much less encouraged in school. In fact injustice isn't even identified in school.

Why? Because School is injustice. The first human rights violation occurs when we're forced by law to sit in a desk thirteen years and memorize the word of the state. It's no wonder we're letting government and employers coerce and threaten us into taking an unproven vaccination. "Open wide, son, or don't eat."

That's pretty sadistic, no matter what your beliefs are.

If you believe you're "woke" you should understand what put you to sleep in the first place.

School is the first lethal injection into the majority, and groupthink the ultimate result and reason for 80% vaccination rate.

Weird to think but true. But it's always weird to think. Weird to the majority at least.
Ken
 

MEDIUMS' WORLD How does a virus th...


MEDIUMS' WORLD

How does a virus that kills less than 1% instill such fear?

The Mediums.

The Real World is very different from the Mediums' World but if the last two years have shown anything it's that people believe far more in the Mediums' World.

After all it is the Mediums - not the Government - that pressured people to accept mandates.

How would we even know about the virus and vaccines if it weren't for the Mediums?

Who told you to wear a mask?
Who told you to stay home?
Who convinced you to believe in the vaccine?
Who keeps you living in fear?

Government is nothing without Mediums. And the Media are only too happy to instill the fears that motivate you to obey.

That's power.

MEDIUMS' WORLD

REAL WORLD

Even though COVID death rate is very small you've let the Mediums color your World.

Truth is you live in Their World. Your belief in the Mediums so strong, so part of who you are, so much your world that disbelieving the Mediums - and in the Mediums - would be akin to rejecting your Savior or learning that your father is a pedophile.

You remember being told about Santa and how naive you felt, how gullible you were. We all do.

We were all of us at some point called naive then sought never to feel that way again.

Which is why you refuse to stop believing - and believing in - the Media. It would shatter your World again. You'd have to admit that your Mediums were something other than what you believed them to be and have kept from you the Truth. This would detonate not only your World and Beliefs but your Identity.

After all you are a citizen of Media World. It would be wrong to reject Your World and sacrilegious not to believe in its God.

So you keep holding on, hoping to prove the Mediums and yourself right. But It and You are wrong, especially about the necessity for such drastic measures that put people out of mind, work and business. You were wrong all along and still deny this fact:

DEATHS BY COVID, CANADA: 29,635
POPULATION CANADA: 38,201,314
= 0.077%

You believe the Mediums care about you. You believe their control over you isn't primary when their very existence depends upon your belief that their control over you isn't primary. You've made yourself dependent on them for Information and now Identity and Direction which these two years has included "do as told or suffer."

Your beliefs, decisions and behaviors around such sacred questions of Human Rights, personal health and Integrity are influenced more by your absorption of Media World than observation of - or existence in - the Real World, not to mention any trust in your own world.

If these two years have demonstrated anything it's that the Mediums have decided what followers should and shouldn't fear. While you should fear going into more debt or hazardous working conditions or school culture or shopping excessively or institutional racism or eating certain foods or drinking pop, the Mediums have decided you fear a virus with .077% chance of killing you.

What you should fear is 1. the Mediums.
What you should fear is 2. any belief or behavior derived from listening to the Mediums.
What you should fear is 3. yourself as victim of the Mediums.

While the Media control you, you do not control the Media, not as long as you're their believer - and not until you defect from Media World to Real World will you finally affect them.

Alas we should shoot the messengers because the last thing the Media want is for us to lose faith or interest.

Has any Medium talked you out of believing in the Medium? Or questioned the vaccine?

You must know. . . it's not the "news", it's a product; that an entity's primary objective is its own; and that Mediums sell threats and concern to keep and grow Their audience.

What keeps and grows an audience are stories of people infected and dead by COVID and the seller's "concern" for your well-being.

Ask any news organization what it wishes of you: to heed it? Or do something more productive, healthy, loving or growth-inducing?

Ask any news organization what it wishes of you: to watch it six hours? Or one?

Still think they care about your health?

While you become less healthy the Mediums get more important to their believers. I understand. You like living in a defined and trustworthy world. You like boundaries - name tags, uniforms, SOP's, rules. You like being told what to believe and who to be and what to do. If you stopped believing the Mediums and questioned their World you would lose everything that keeps you together and trusting.

How could you possibly survive the truth that Media World is not the Real World?

You wouldn't, which is exactly where your Leaders want you.

If you think Media cares more about your health than your attention to their instructions you're a naive citizen of their World.

Now, back to your regularly scheduled Programming. . .
Ken
 

BELIEFS RULE THE DAY "All new hire...


BELIEFS RULE THE DAY

"All new hires must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19."

Interpretation: "All new hires must surrender Human Rights."

Sub-text: "New hires must not believe in Human Rights."

Sub-sub-text: "Your beliefs disqualify you."

Alas, you're a perfect match for Complicit Corp if you:

don't believe in Human Rights or do but "will ignore for food"

believe Human Rights get in the way of everything

believe you should believe like the majority

believe the news

believe the government

believe you should abdicate beliefs and rights

don't believe in research or statistics

don't believe in evolution, epiphanies, apostasies, i.e learning, growing

believe that you should fear self-love, self-analysis, listening to yourself

believe in lashing out at people who don't believe who you believe

believe fellow vaxxers good, the unvaxxed bad

don't believe in yourself enough to ever operate your own business

believe that anyone who questions authority is subversive

believe in being controlled and manipulated

believe you're in no position to challenge violations perpetrated against you

believe you're weak mentally, emotionally, spiritually

believe in seeking approval at whatever cost

believe you should respect your employer but not yourself

believe in letting your employer disrespect you

believe what your employer believes

believe that your employer and the government and the media and pharma care about you more than we care about ourselves

believe protecting Human Rights contributes to the spread of COVID-19

Furthermore, if you:

are generally mediocre

enjoy snitching

question nothing

are politically correct

do and think whatever is trending

follow questionable rules

hold fast to old beliefs

fear upsetting authority

keep your nose clean

sacrifice your rights for the good of the company

stay quiet because you fear reprisal

never risk your job for what's right

are morally relativistic in the workplace

justify and rationalize questionable practices

resent stronger people

would never, ever be a whistleblower

. . . then we're the company for you.

Proof of vaccination is proof that you also believe other tenets sacred to our operation; you believe Human Rights are a nuisance and that you are better than those who believe Human Rights are divinely bestowed. Though your beliefs aren't really yours and could be wrong what's important are your beliefs.

Sub-sub-sub-sub-text: please confirm and initial:

I believe the virus justifies human rights abuses. ___

I believe the vaccine effective. ___

I believe wearing a mask is healthier than not wearing a mask even if vaccinated. ___

I believe in work-from-home and stay-at-home orders for vaccinated people. ___

I believe those who are now dead by suicide, drug overdoses and domestic violence as a result of isolation constitute the "price we had to pay" to control a virus that kills less than 1% of a population. ___

I don't believe people who died by isolation are as important as victims of COVID. ___

I believe churches should still have limited capacities because not everyone is vaccinated. ___

I believe in vaccine passports for indoor dining in commercial spaces. ___

I believe innumerable boosters are necessary. ___

I don't believe the vaccine has harmed anyone. ___

I don't believe in open dialogue about vaccination. ___

I believe in censorship of experts who disagree with vaccination. __

I don't believe sources of information - no matter how credible - that challenge the efficacy and morality of vaccination and passports. ___

I believe propaganda has its place at this time of necessary vaccination. ___

I believe nobody should question vaccination or passports. ___

I believe those who question the vaccine are selfish, reckless and irresponsible. ___

I don't believe I have certain rights. ___

I believe anyone who doesn't believe in the vaccine should be ineligible for employment, i.e. income. ___

I believe in the vaccine or received it under duress to make others believe I believe in the vaccine. ___

I believe I believe the right way. ___

Please apply now.

Complicit Corp will pass your beliefs by the Government, Media, Pharma and the Moral Majority to confirm eligibility.

Complicit Corp is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes and work environments. Complicit Corp is committed to providing a diverse and equitable workplace where everyone feels safe and accepted as their authentic selves. We actively seek qualified candidates who share our commitment to equity and inclusion and contribute to the diversification of ideas and perspectives that help us innovate and provide the best possible care to our clients.

We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristics that make each of us different.
Ken
 

WHAT DO YOU KNOW? Please take this...


WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

Please take this test:

1. I know the percentage of people dead by COVID   Yes___ No ___. Enter figure/s here:_____.

2. I believe the mask is effective  Yes___ No ___. Why or why not? _________.

3. I have owned my own business  Yes___ No ___

4. I got vaccinated in order to keep my job  Yes___ No ___

5. I can explain what the virus is  Yes___ No ___. Explain: _________.

6. I can explain what the vaccination is  Yes___ No ___. Explain_______.

7. I believe that my sources of information are truthful   Yes___ No ___. Why? _________.

8. I know of at least one person who got COVID after vaccination  Yes___ No ___

9. I know of at least one person who died after receiving the vaccination  Yes___ No ___

10. I consulted my conscience about whether or not to get the vaccine  Yes___ No ___

11. I believe the media is censored  Yes___ No ___. Explain: _________.

12. I believe Twitter censors content  Yes___ No ___. Explain:_________.

13. I believe Google/YouTube censors content Yes___ No ___ Explain: _________.

14. I believe Facebook censors content Yes___ No ___ Explain: _________.

15. I believe Instagram censors content Yes___ No ___ Explain: _________.

16. I have done extensive research on the virus and vaccines  Yes___ No ___. Present research:_____.

17. I trust media  Yes___ No ___. Why? _____.

18. I trust government  Yes___ No ___. Why?_____.

19. I trust drug companies  Yes___ No ___. Why?_____.

20. I believe that small businesses ought to be restricted to protect people from contracting the virus  Yes___ No ___. Why?_____.

21. I believe Public Health officials care about business and the economy  Yes___ No ___. Why?_____.

22. I am afraid of people's opinions of me  Yes___ No ___. Why?_____.

23. I typically prefer to conform  Yes___ No ___. Why?_____.

24. I typically avoid moral dilemmas  Yes___ No ___. Why?_____.

25. I believe people who don't get vaccinated are reckless  Yes___ No ___. Why?_____.

26. I typically believe myself to be a critical thinker  Yes___ No ___. Demonstrate:_____.

27. I have been to a third world country  Yes___ No ___

28. I am mature  Yes___ No ___

29. I understand how government works  Yes___ No ___. Explain_____.

30. I understand how the economy works  Yes___ No ___. Explain_____.

31. I understand how banks work  Yes___ No ___. Explain_____.

32. I admit to being ignorant of most things  Yes___ No ___

33. I am right about my decisions around COVID-19  Yes___ No ___. Provide evidence:_____.

34. COVID-19 threatens the lives of a great many people  Yes___ No ___.

35. Referring to previous question: I think that way because: _____________.

36. I am aware that COVID-19 has killed less than 1% of my homeland  Yes___ No ___

37. I enjoy watching people suffer from lockdowns and penalties  Yes___ No ___

38. I want people to believe I care  Yes___ No ___

39. I am aware that there are victims of lockdowns  Yes__  No__. Please share: ________.

40. I can tell you what percentage of the population has died by overdose or suicide since the beginning of the pandemic  Yes__ No__. Please share:_________.

41. I care about victims of lockdowns  Yes___ No ___

42. I respect the media more than my own family and friends  Yes___ No ___

43. I am afraid of being unfashionable and unlawful  Yes___ No ___

44. I like to report people who are spreading misinformation  Yes___ No ___

45. I like to report people who aren't following rules  Yes___ No ___

46. I strive to please  Yes___ No ___

47.  I want to be accepted even if my behavior is unethical  Yes___ No ___

48. I am a kiss-ass  Yes___ No ___

49. I believe the virus will kill me  Yes___ No ___

50. I believe that 100% of the population should be vaccinated  Yes___ No ___. Why? _____.
Ken
 

JOHN Q. STUPID This is the story o...


JOHN Q. STUPID

This is the story of John Q. Stupid who thought as told and had no conscience, who valued opinion over truth and loved his image more than himself, and who worked each day to be law-abiding and fashionable.

This is the story of John Q. Stupid whose thoughts were never his and whose ensuing behaviors helped determine the destructive course of leaders and society, and whose most trusted comrade was Jane Q. Beautiful who produced and told him the news.

In a lonely world John Q. Stupid needed all the friends he could get and discovered that the TV and web were full of faces like Jane's who also needed attention - the perfect combination. Alas His + Her needs formed a match[box] made in heaven.

While shocked that a new virus could kill him, John Q. Stupid was touched by Jane's constant and unrelenting concern. How righteous Jane was, he thought, to keep him safe and informed at all hours of the day. Over the next twenty-four months John would spend a lot of time with Jane Q. Beautiful and wasn't he lucky, he thought, that she supplied all the information, direction, decision-making and connection he needed.

Must be quite a virus, he believed, for Jane to lock down, quarantine and threaten viewers/believers/comrades. Must be quite a virus indeed! Might kill half the population, he believed.

But it wouldn't. It wouldn't kill 25% or 10% or even 1%. Oh well. He still believed it must be quite the virus and even though chances of dying were less by cancer, he hung on Jane's every word and worked hard to please her to return her favors.

Immediately he put out the sign "Stay Home! Save a Life!" followed by "We're all in it together!" then "Thank you, Heroes!" Though he cared little about others he wanted all including Jane to believe he did. This was his time to elicit admiration so John Q. Stupid roamed town in an ineffectual mask ordering others to wear their ineffectual masks and reporting regularly to Public Health officials about too many cars in a driveway, a father and son in a park, a mother and daughter sitting too close together, a business owner not signing people in.

Day after day John Q. Stupid listened only to Jane Q. Beautiful as she predicted "waves", "vaccines" and "passports" which strangely all came to pass after which John couldn't wait to flash "proof" to the Guards.

He was now part of the club and wanted his imaginary audiences on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to know where he stood (i.e. with the majority) and that he cared.

Oddly, when a vaccinated comrade ("Vaxxrade") caught the virus John didn't seem to care. Even when this Vaxxrad died of the virus John didn't seem to care.

Nor did he seem to care when a Vaxxrade suffered a stroke within a month of the jab.

Nor did he seem to care when an unvaccinated enemy was fired for beliefs and couldn't find employment for two years.

Nor did he seem to care about anyone - let alone everyone - who lost their business due to mandates, restrictions, lockdowns and passport requirements.

"Sacrifice!" John shouted at the TV. "It's called 'SACRIFICE'!"

When out of isolation and desperation a nephew sacrificed his life by suicide John didn't bother to care.

When out of loneliness and depression a niece sacrificed her life by overdose John didn't care.

Though he wanted everyone to believe he cared John didn't actually care, that is until enemies questioned Jane's mandates which provoked reprimand for not caring.

No matter what he saw or heard, John Q. Stupid always ran back into the gaze of Jane Q. Beautiful who would put him straight and appreciate his allegiance.

"You are truth!" he shouted at her. "You are love!"

And didn't she prove her love! When concerned about misinformation Jane Q. Beautiful warned him of fringe types that couldn't be trusted. To stay right she commanded him to report to social media because these - and none else! - were dedicated to truth and health not to mention freedom and democracy!

With that in mind John Q. Stupid found himself in front of his laptop with a reassuring smile about what he now believed were Twitter's priorities:

1. The health of John Q. Stupid
2. To speak truth to John Q. Stupid
...
10. Make money

All the good people of corporate and social media, John believed, put aside their ideologies and needs, he believed, to deliver Truth and Concern for John Q. Stupid. Wasn't it wonderful that All Media put aside their needs and bias to dedicate themselves to the health of John Q. Stupid!

Acceptance was central to John's whole existence. He'd suffered enough at school and wasn't about to relive persecution for being himself, i.e. objecting to classmates' aggression or calling out the State's teachings and values. He'd been pushed around the playground and punished in class so much that he did whatever he had to to stop the public beatings and beratings.

For John Q. Stupid it was no longer about the right thing to do. In fact, it never was. History was always about the acceptable thing to do. Conscience and human rights and practical thinking simply had no place in the moral dilemmas surrounding the pandemic. In fact, conscience and human rights and thinking simply got in the way of success and acceptance! This he learned from his own grandparents who wouldn't dare speak to a black person let alone hire him. "Just ain't what people do!" they'd preached.

Their grandparents refused to educate women or let them work or vote. "Just ain't right!" they'd preached.

Long before that, John's ancestors forced beliefs onto children who forced them onto children who forced them onto children who forced them onto children who forced them onto John Q. Stupid. Unfortunately John Q. Stupid saw no parallel between History's belief groups and those of today around vaccination; and no truth in the fact that beliefs come and go as people adopt them to fit in, retain a job or stay alive.

Ultimately groupthink is how John Q. Stupid came to be and came to be such a believer in the deadliness of the virus.

Really, John Q. Stupid never gave it much thought because thought could mean exclusion and unemployment. But like the religious crusaders of old John Q. Stupid couldn't prove any knowledge of the content of the virus, vaccines or either's operations in the body. And because John Q. Stupid couldn't prove anything his decision to follow rules and take the vaccine was entirely belief-based. More specifically, trust-based.

But what John Q. Stupid believed above all was that any suspicion of Jane Q. Beautiful deserved condemnation, exclusion, penalty, violence and poverty. To not believe her would be to question the very cure not to mention the truth and the rod.

"Does nobody respect the Cure, Truth or the Rod?!" he shouted in time with Jane.

John Q. Stupid had no tolerance for those refusing to believe in the Cure, the Truth and the Rod.

John Q. Stupid was, of course, ignorant of most reality. If all knowledge comprised a desert his range of knowledge would be but the mirage he could see but never touch.

General knowledge doesn't matter anyway, not to an emotionally vulnerable John Q. Stupid and his controllers. John Q. Stupid doesn't even believe in knowledge, really. If he did, he would have lived a whole different life. (In fact he would have lived!) For now John Q. Stupid believes in whatever keeps him fashionable and lawful and acceptable.

John Q. Stupid - while not very smart is very acceptable - History will give him that - yet still, even after all he had done to be acceptable he was still very lonely.

Dammit, he thought. All I ever wanted - over and above universal health and truth - was to feel less lonely. . . Yet even though I am one with the majority I haven't a friend in the world, not even Jane Q. Beautiful.

And that's the story of John Q. Stupid, yet ecstatic at Jane's announcement of another four weeks of slow-drip misery.
Ken
 

IMMUNITY TO GOVERNMENT & MEDIA PARTY ...


IMMUNITY TO GOVERNMENT & MEDIA PARTY

The more the Government & Media Party jabs Vaccination Intimidation into the national mind the more the people grow immune to any message let alone those related to COVID-19.

The more fanatically the Government & Media Party goads us at gunpoint the greater the people's immunity to all things Government and Media.

Nobody likes to be sold which is why people are hanging up on the Tele-marketing campaign from the Government & Media Party.

The harder they sell an unproven and questionable vaccine the more skeptical the people. Especially if those people are threatened with ineligibility for employment, i.e., being told "follow government orders or starve."

Now the Government & Media Party runs a dangerous operation risking long-term blowback in the shape of disbelief-by-default. The longer the G&M Party pushes an unscrupulous agenda upon the scrupulous majority the greater the divide till eventually the people's truth defeats the Party's narrative. And it will. It always does.

On street level: the relatively wealthier individuals within the G&M Party relentlessly pressure poorer classes/parties; G&M Party condescend through media to the masses. Nobody in power, i.e., the Government & Media Party will let us refuse vaccination. Once the arm wrestle begins the individuals making decisions do anything to win.

So far the Government & Media Party has allowed no discussion about the un-holistic approach of lockdowns and their devastating effects therefore isn't acting in the best interest of democracy or the majority.

Who are the majority? Those who will never contract or spread COVID-19. Truth is the majority will never contract or spread COVID-19. The other Truth is that mandates and laws should be directed toward the health and interest of the majority.

It's only natural.

But the Government & Media Party are anything but natural, like their approach to combating the spread of COVID-19. None of it natural: not lockdowns, mask wearing, social distancing, business closures, restrictions from gathering, inaccessibility to parks and churches, quarantines, CERB money and finally vaccination.

Any agenda that strives to restrict the majority to protect the minority, by logic, damages that majority.

At this stage, the sacrifices to protect the minority are no longer justified.

Nor is the manipulation of the Government & Media Party which is losing the confidence of the people. Shortly the tables will turn and, by definition of democracy, the people will pressure the Government & Media Party like any free people should.

By definition democracy is designed to enable the majority to challenge the state which - even including the Media - is still a minority party.

Not only is Vaccination Intimidation a human rights violation it's just another application of Archaic Top-Down Male Ego governance abusing people since the beginning; today however it's blended with Power-Drunk Female Feigned Concern, both genders of the Political Elite striving to broaden and control their audiences.

Alas this deadly hybrid is threatening us all.
Ken
 

RELIGIOUS V. RECKLESS Belief in va...


RELIGIOUS V. RECKLESS

Belief in vaccination is just another faith-based religion.

All comes down to belief.

Few understand the virus or the vaccine so beliefs about either are just that.

In fact it's never been about the efficacy of the vaccination (because it's too early to tell) and always about belief.

Truth is, the truth isn't. Like the existence or content of God, we don't know. Though we believe.

Behold the Religion of Vaccination believing non-believers reckless.

Presiding between the religious and the reckless are the Government, Media, Google/YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, their beliefs clear: vaccines good - end discussion.

Pushed into a corner the beliefs of the "reckless" are equally clear: vaccines unproven - begin discussion.

The religious believe in a vaccine while the reckless believe in Human Rights.

All seems reminiscent of the crusades. With - but without - Absolute Truth missionaries converted communities en masse. Likewise the Church of the Vaccinated has nabbed 70% through similar threats.

Truth is: while the content and efficacy of vaccines can be contended, the boundaries of Human Rights cannot. What will never be true is the need for all to be vaccinated while eternally True is the basic right to choose.

Truth is: we cannot possibly make an informed decision. Nor are we allowed to. Experts on all sides have not been allowed equal time.

If:

1. The government's belief in the vaccine is wrong

2. The government is hiding information or silencing opposition

Then: the name-calling will be reversed, i.e. the unvaccinated will have every right to call the Vaccination Religion "reckless" but with evidence. After all the "reckless" moniker has never been proven because vaxxers don't require evidence. They prefer orders and acceptance.

Truth is:

The unvaccinated are the un-powerful minority vulnerable to attacks, threats, fines, violations, bullying and demonization by the Vaccination Religion and have returned little fire as they strive only to resist and protect - the ultimate exercise of Human Rights.

In the end the Vaccination Religion (with arbitrary laws on its side) still claims to act in the best interest of all.

So too the "reckless" but with Universal Law on its side.

Truth is: the vaccinated are far more religious, the rest of us far less reckless.
Ken
 

YOU LOVE ILLUSION - PART I You lov...


YOU LOVE ILLUSION - PART I

You love illusion.

You love illusion so much you live and breed it.

Over the pandemic most lived in an illusion while we in Reality fought the insanity of being the minority, true to ourselves thus enemy to the illusion.

Not only have people believed in a false version of the whole but lived a false version of themselves - as product, producer and promoter of false beliefs following rules and appearing compassionate.

What do people want? A reason to show they care, and the mandates gave that opportunity; that's why they loved staying home, locking down, wearing masks, reporting on neighbors and getting the vaccine - then telling everyone about it.

History has shown that people want to believe in a false world and be part of that false world by adopting and soliciting false perceptions. In short, people want to look like they care.

They pretend to want to protect people.
They actually want to be perceived good, right, lawful, etc.

They appear motivated by compassion.
They're actually motivated by fear of peer perception, God, job loss, etc.

To them wearing a mask means "I care about you."
Getting vaccinated means "I care about you."

"I support Ukraine" means "I care about the oppressed", just not those oppressed for questioning mandates and vaccination.

Illusion and oppression sit in the same taxi but what's driving it? Fear. There you are pressing the gas with yearnings to avoid yet perpetrate victimization - your false fears in a false world of false minds.

To delude is to oppress. To believe in the delusion is to oppress oneself. To judge others outside the delusion is absurd, and apparently who you are.

Truth is people care less about people than what people think but no Facebooker would ever post that, or anything that makes them appear real. I understand. Being real doesn't get many likes. What gets likes is the appearances of insight, intellect and concern. What doesn't get likes, the job, approval, etc. is reality, i.e. who you really are - because you're full of faults and faulty thinking.

Open your eyes and mind: there's a parallel between your micro false persona and the macro false narrative. One can't exist without the other, together disrupting the economy. Already propped up unnaturally economies are further manipulated by the pandemic. Alas our highly unnatural and unreal states of being and the world.

1. Economies propped up unnaturally through debt
2. Economies deflated unnaturally through mandates
=
Unnatural States

Adding to the false world are social and corporate media comprised of false personas claiming to care about everybody (while hating people for not caring).

Admit it: in a false world your beliefs, motivations, "values" and conduct can be nothing but false.

Admit this too: you love illusions created by religions, TV, money, status, romantic love, celebrities, advertising - all of which depend upon illusion - especially advertising.

Problems arise when you become the advertisement. Anyone wearing a label is a billboard. Your mask and vaccination status are no different.

In that case, however, you're not advertising your true identity but idiocy and complicity.

Your true identity remains to be seen.
Ken
 

YOU LOVE ILLUSION - PART II You ...


YOU LOVE ILLUSION - PART II


You love illusion.

I stood before you with firsthand observations of the Freedom Convoy yet you interrupted to tell me what you'd read or seen on TV.

Because you love illusion.

You preferred to believe the stranger's version than indulge in reality. Having attended the convoy three separate weekends I could have brought you into scene after heartwarming scene but you told me what really went down.

Let's review:

1. You believed and trusted the media

2. You suspected and distrusted reality from a known friend

3. You denied reality

4. You confirmed your beliefs through Media versus challenging your beliefs through Truth

What really went down? In the face of evidence presented by one you know you threw your arms around illusion.

Attending the convoy I figured would prompt questions and inquiry but instead I got poorly informed opinions.

Had people asked me the right questions, what I could have described:

1. Thousands of decent people

2. Groups singing the National Anthem

3. Friendly faces, great conversations

4. Bouncy Castles

5. Road Hockey Games

6. Dance Parties

7. Inventive signs with thought-provoking messages

8. Over-abundance of cops

9. Intelligent speeches rooted in research

10. Live music by secular and religious performers

11. Horn honks inducing smiles and laughter

12. Quebeckers galore

13. Unity of Canadians

14. Natives

15. People of color

16. Jam packed businesses including Freshi at 98 Sparks St.

17. Lineups at Tim Hortons and McDonald's

18. Crowded patio at The Grand Bar at 74 George St.

19. Free food and drink stations operated by families, organizations and random individuals

20. Free clothing, toothpaste, towels, blankets and so much more - possibly supported quietly by the likes of the Dollar Store and Walmart

21. Families everywhere

In no conversation have I shared any - let alone - all of the above. Because people don't want to live in reality nor - frighteningly - believe all the good wrought by the convoy. Instead, they prefer to believe the opposite of what I observed and lived.

Aversion to reality is disturbing enough but aversion to goodness, unity, love and the peaceful practice of democracy is terrifying. It's not the protesters who divided the country but the deluded condemners of goodness. Don't blame me for practicing my right to free speech. Blame yourself for ridiculing that.

Because that's what really went down in Canada this year. And it shouldn't be forgotten.

Out of fear the socialized majority censured the patriotic and peace-loving freedom fighters for being terrorists. Actual terrorists are those complicit with abusive authority and who discredit we who believe in ourselves, truth, freedom and the practice of democracy.

When a friend - in multiple conversations - expressed his (read: the Media's) disgust with the convoy's "disruption of business downtown Ottawa" he couldn't possibly believe what I'd observed, i.e. businesses bursting at the seams. Even when presented the evidence he just couldn't change his perception, preferring to believe the Plaintiff than the thousands of witnesses for the Defense.

You can lead a man to a different channel but you can't make him turn off the TV.

And because the majority still believe TV:

1. The unvaccinated still can't cross borders or be eligible for employment.

2. Vaccines will contiune to be ineffective

3. Vaccines will continue to harm people without recourse

4. Studies about the effects of the vaccine will remain unknown

5. The Pfizer documents will get no attention from the mainstream news

6. Experts will continue to be silenced

7. The numbers of mandate-induced suicides, overdoses, job losses, business closures, domestic violence calls and divorces will remain difficult to access

Those in the illusion believe (falsely) that they're being good.

Those in reality know (truthfully) that for two years they have been suppressed, oppressed and depressed without check.

Next time you're in conversation with someone who attended the convoy, I suggest you ask question after question after question after question after question till you finally get the picture - that we're the solution and you're the problem.

The reason mandates are on their way out isn't because of decreasing COVID counts but because of the pressure put on the government by we who exercised our right to speech.
Ken
 

TRUCKER CONVOY - GOVERNMENT & MEDIA C...


TRUCKER CONVOY - GOVERNMENT & MEDIA CAN'T HANDLE OBJECTION


For two years we obeyed the rules yet the moment we challenge them you call us white nationalists.

For two years you monitored us yet the moment we repel the surveillance you call us subversive.

For two years we tolerated censorship yet the moment we expose it you warn of "unacceptable views."

For sixteen months we endured pressure to take an unproven vaccine yet the moment we refuse you call us reckless.

For two years we tolerated your narrative yet the moment we mock it you alert the police of collective action.

For two years you shut down businesses yet the moment we're pushed too far you call us aggressive.

For two years you put us out of work yet when we post objections you delete us.

For two years we kept distant from friends and family yet when we demand a humane approach you call us unsympathetic to the .077% that would die of COVID.

For two years Costco and Walmart crushed competition yet when we declare an unfair fight you ignore us.

For two years we quarantined as directed yet when we refuse you fine us.

For two years we did everything you pressured us to yet when we convoy to Ottawa you initiate a public relations war.

When you lose the public relations war you'll call in the troops because that's what the Government & Media Party do when they lose the confidence of the people.

For two weeks we're going to invite you to the table yet instead of engaging in discussion you'll plant hooligans then blame us for the "insurrection."

We know your playbook because you've been using it two years with immunity.

Unfortunately for you, starting January 29 you'll have to play by our book. Worry not, it doesn't contain any of your name-calling, fear mongering, manipulation, pressure, threats, denial, abuse, censorship, lies, destruction, overreach, violations or response to your public relations war.

Should, heaven forbid, we feel compelled to put any of these tactics to use you'll recognize them. You trained us well.
Ken
 

CONVOY PROVING HEALTHIER FOR NATION T...


CONVOY PROVING HEALTHIER FOR NATION THAN MANDATES OR MEDIA

While mandates were never proven effective, they have proven damaging.

For example:

Wearing a mask
Proven unhealthy to restrict oxygen.

Social distancing
Proven unhealthy to restrict connection.

Lockdowns
Proven unhealthy by the rises in divorce, domestic violence, alcohol and drug use, suicide and overdoses.

COVID-19 vaccine/s
Proven unhealthy by reactions like myocarditis and death.

Business closures
Proven unhealthy for owners and economy.

Denying employment to the unvaccinated
Proven unhealthy to be 1. unemployed and 2. discriminated against.

Fining businesses for not adhering to rules
Proven demoralizing and ruinous in vulnerable times.

Requiring restaurants to take names/contact information of guests
Proven unsettling for guests and burdensome for hosts while compromising for both.

Restricting number of patrons inside restaurants
pProven unhealthy for business.

Pressuring the public to be vaccinated
Proven dangerous to ingest untested drugs under stress and duress.

Demonizing the unvaccinated
Proven damaging to emotional and national stability.

Fear-mongering by government/media
Proven unhealthy to be frightened into surrendering rights.

Censorship by media
Proven unhealthy to suppress truth and spread falsehoods.

Censorship by YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google, TikTok
Proven catastrophic to personal health, public debate and national growth.

Vaccine requirements of cross-border truckers
Proving a threat to their survival and that of the companies and customers they serve - i.e. everybody.

The Trucker Convoy
Proving healthy for democracy and the welfare of all.
Ken
 

LIVE FROM THE FREEDOM CONVOY - QUESTI...


LIVE FROM THE FREEDOM CONVOY - QUESTIONERS V. BELIEVERS

Had the media been questioning rather than peddling the narrative there wouldn't need to be a Freedom Convoy.

Alas there are two camps:

1. Believers of the narrative
2. Questioners of the narrative

That's it.

The Believers feel entitled to dictate Truth while the Questioners feel entitled to seek Truth.

While the Believers are merely believers (in mandates and vaccines) they've somehow dominated the conversation and intimidated Questioners into silence - two years.

The mission of Freedom Convoy is to question mandates yet Believers still feel the Questioners have no right to weigh in - after obeying two years.

There has been one frightful norm:

1. Believers denouncing Questioners

Now that the Questioners have driven a convoy into the conversation, Believers have the audacity to open fire with ridicule while praying the demonstration breaks down into violence or racism. This the camp that claims to care about the health, inclusion and stability of Canada.

Believers still feel entitled to impose inhibitive narrative, rules and restrictions while anyone who questions is blame-worthy. Needless to say the Questioners have grown impatient not only with the narrative but the arrogance that sustains it.

It's a tale of two choices for all including major corporations:

1. Preserve your image
2. Risk your image

Whether it's Walmart, Costco or the average Canadian, it comes down to fear of backlash. Walmart and Coscto could end this vaccine-border mandate with a phone call that threatens the closure of stores should the Government press on with their agenda. But even companies of this size fear boycotts from Believers as if that would actually happen.

The average citizen and business just want to fit in, and fear judgment from friends, family, customers and employers.

Public Image = everything to everyone

Except Questioners - these truckers especially - who ought to be admired for risking reputation before and for the nation.

There are two things you can do:

1. Remain silent
2. Question without fear

I have been in Ottawa since January 28th and here's what I see:

1. Questioners fighting Government (not Believers, because Believers aren't here)
2. Believers fighting Questioners remotely because they have no courage
3. Media fighting Questioners remotely because they have no ethics
4. Government fighting Questioners, as expected

Which begs two questions:

1. Why would Government resist questions?
2. Why is questioning "unacceptable"?

For all their spite, the Believers have no idea of the unity, joy, smiles, laughter, dancing, conversation, bonding, harmony and patriotism occurring en masse moment to moment on Parliament Hill and surrounding streets right now. But Believers can't even allow themselves to enjoy a demonstration of democracy that keeps them free. Thousands of Questioners are having a great time on Parliament Hill celebrating democracy while the Believers are missing the point and missing out.

As a Questioner among thousands I feel supported here, no longer alone or afraid to share insights and outlooks among fellow democracy-loving Canucks. I'm here to give and get support, that's it. Nothing more, nothing less. And it feels good to give and receive after twenty-four months of fear of being real.

We have two options for the future:

1. Practice silence
2. Practice democracy

This is not a protest but a Democracy Test, a Heart Test, and I urge you to circumvent media to learn truth.

Come to Ottawa and see it for yourself.
Ken
 

LIVE FROM THE FREEDOM CONVOY - NOTES ...


LIVE FROM THE FREEDOM CONVOY - NOTES & REFLECTIONS

Friday January 28th 5:30 AM drive to Kingston to join convoy to Ottawa on its final leg.

Radio news about the convoy: "We're going to wait and see how this story unfolds," she says. Your listeners are part of "the story", not audience to it. $8,000,000 through GoFundMe implies massive support. Media disconnect, suspicious eyes on skeptics.

Past Kingston a long line of cars blinking hazards and honking, flags and signs.

Brockville to Ottawa groups at overpasses waving banners, signs and flags. Excited, bouncing, jubilant. Never such worthwhile enthusiasm; not rooting on a hockey team but doing battle with the highest powers. I slow down and wave out the sunroof, lay on the horn and wave for photos.

I snap photos back to amuse. Love this. Any time an overpass approaches I slow down and wave out the sunroof.

Some overpasses in farm country contain one lone person bundled up in coat and mitts and tuque. Farmers along service roads adjacent to highway waving from behind blankets on lawn chairs. . . families, children, grandparents.

Energy upbeat among all. Not your normal protest. Smiles versus animosity.

Arrived in the capital on Elgin St. about 1:30 PM. Not much happening - so it appeared - few cars and trucks with horns blaring and signs/flags. Didn't know where I was, following slow-moving cars with flashing lights. Merged onto Wellington that runs along Parliament Hill and there it was like a beam of light drawing me to the Afterlife. . . a long line of cheering Canucks before the backdrop of Parliament, trucks on the opposite side already parked. Horns blaring. Arms in the air, waving, signs and flags. Humans galore rooting on a stream of cars and welcoming us home.

Slow to a crawl, grab phone, push "video" then shove it out of the sunroof and hold. Exciting and excited, adrenaline rushing, all these people coming out of their skin, laughing, smiling, waving us in. My hand freezing but the scene too precious not to record. Very emotional, lump in my throat, on the verge of tears. So too a dude who pulls up next to me and shouts, "Tear in my fuckin' eye, bro!" I laugh and feel it too. Democracy at work. How could anyone object to this - my views, sure, but not the practice of democracy.

Down another half kilometer I u-turn to feel the rush of love again but a cop blocks the road to guide trucks to their final resting place.

The jubilation of these early protesters sets the tone for the weekend. Already less of a protest than a democracy test. A heart test, a conscience test.

I park and meander through the convivial crowd.  An airplane pulling a banner "Mandate freedom" then the bottom of a helicopter reads "Fuck Trudeau".

Smiling faces, eye contact and greetings - that's what strikes me. Normally at a protest anger is palpable, the chanting hostile. Not here, all in high spirits. My smile is my sign, to support and love the like-minded who for two years tolerated accusations from friends and family of being "deniers", "reckless" and "wrong." Phones in the air taking photos and video for those same friends and families plus followers.

My photos have no outlet at first. I'm not on Facebook or Twitter. Just Instagram for my wine tour business but I lose all fear of public perception. Can't care about image, the very preoccupation with which has kept the opposition from speaking out. Fear of backlash has silenced people, the fear of boycott silenced corporations - two years.

Fear certainly didn't bring me here, and now that I'm here I'm not going to let fear censor feelings and observations.

Freedom Convoy gives me purpose and value and, oddly, distraction from the media. Here the real world acts as a distraction from the media. Strange. Should be the opposite.

Their side loves to provoke argument, to attack. Two years in and they still think they own the conversation, that they alone are the entitled voice; they still feel justified in imposing inhibitive narratives and restrictions while being appalled that 1. opposition exists and 2. we demand to voice it.

Essentially they're appalled by efforts to partake in democracy, and that's appalling.

Saturday January 29 the high water mark. 11:30 AM downtown. Parking Enforcement nowhere to be found, thankfully. Thousands. Blaring truck horns near and far. Line-ups of cars/trucks. I feel its size and hear it with unending honking and burgeoning crowds.

Stroll through a very large-and-growing community. Free food, tents, signs. A stage now with brief speeches, music, people dancing in -14C temps.

Feels great. Don't talk. Just soak it in and smile. A large group singing O Canada. Upload pics and videos without fear. Get the imagery up and out, as are thousands of others - circumventing media to leak truth.

By all the texts of support and "likes" I'm getting I realize I, as each of us, represent dozens, if not hundreds, of absent supporters. We're feeding them the action, circumventing media to leak truth.

Saturday brilliant. Anyone not here is missing out on the practice and joy of democracy. Every face I see, and I see thousands, bolsters me. Every face I'm meant to see, every moment I am meant to be seen. Truckers chatting with supporters, folks looking at each other, greeting each other and seeing the whole face. It's like a festival but with a central purpose that pulls us to each other with loving kindness.

Sunday the 30th still a few thousand meandering, not as packed but still many different people.

I notice a patio of beer sippers at an ice bar at The Grand.

Chat with a bunch of fine Canadians curled up beneath blankets provided by the bar, sitting at tables amid snow. I interact with folks from across the province and beyond - Quebeckers everywhere. All decent, expressing normal feelings about abnormal living. So great to bond with strangers over agreement, beer and laughs.

Don't want to leave that scene. From our table at the perimeter along the pedestrian mall, we are waving people in till there is a large line up at the bar, all chatting. This the very point of the protest: to give and get support.

Don't want to leave the bonding and harmony, to lose the adrenaline. Protests typically charged with intensity. Not this one. All smiles and eyes and tears and "knowing" what led us here - moral indignation and emotion.

All the while a couple of friends (by messaging) give me trouble about posting images on my business Instagram, arguing the risk of losing customers. I explain that for too long everyone (small business, large corporation, individuals) have been afraid to be themselves and transparent. Hiding themselves, remaining anonymous, not voicing their true selves or feelings. Time to stand up and make my self and views known, my business be damned. I am my business. The mandates nearly destroyed me financially and emotionally, and for two years I resented being controlled by government stooges who've never understood the impact of restrictions nor had the courage or character to open their own businesses. Their ignorance, over-reach and abuse really damaged me. So "fuck them" is my attitude.

Monday morning back downtown. I record myself on my phone as a faux CBC news reporter - to mock mainstream media about how they misrepresent events. Reckless journalism, really, entrancing the masses to demonize and pressure each other.

Still a concentration of people near the stage alive with speeches - one of which really good. A well-prepared and well-spoken talk by a woman who falls into tears.

I too on the verge of weeping, at the scene, the outpouring, the togetherness, the collective admission of suffering two years or witnessing it. Truly it is our pain that has pushed us here. We claim to protest in defense of freedom and democracy but ultimately it is anguish that had the final say. There is no arguing with sadness and dismay.

Unfortunately, many who overdosed or committed suicide lost the argument to state-provoked emotion.

Stroll the streets an hour or two then get lost, walk over the Rideau Canal as people peacefully skate up and down. The entire world about to go down just blocks over yet here peaceful skating. Divergent worlds. Mingling of extremes.

Truckers have galvanized the nation. Angus Reid poll February 1 shows 54% against mandates, that we should "manage health risks" on our own.

So happy. So at peace. Centered. I have no doubt that I am meant to be here.

Every Canadian ought to go to Parliament Hill. To exercise democracy, feel it, be reminded, and practice it. It keeps you close to things and the government in check.

You don't do it for the results but to support like-minded questioners and remind those in power that people are watching. That's what this is. A push back.

So enthused so many did it. So thankful for the truckers for initiating it.

On the way out of town a young local holding a sign, "Shame on you. Go home."

Probably assumes us all to be COVID-deniers. While few of us are actually COVID-deniers, anyone that discourages or interferes with discourse is clearly a Democracy Denier.
Ken
 

YOU LOVE ILLUSION - PART III Ontar...


YOU LOVE ILLUSION - PART III

Ontario's lowest voter turn-out in History was because:

1. We felt we had no impact on reality

2. We felt we had no right to impact reality

3. We preferred to remain in the reality of over-reach, mandates, controls, restrictions, strict border measures for the unvaccinated, denying employment to the unvaccinated, human rights abuses, unleashing cops upon protesters at the border blockades, positioning snipers on rooftops along Huron Church Road in Windsor, etc.

4. Voting was too real

Whatever it was, over half the people preferred not to impact reality, preferring the illusion perpetuated by the government/s two years.

A mere five months ago - January 2022 - government shut down businesses only to lift mask and vaccine mandates shortly afterward but not before seizing bank accounts.

Apparently we wanted more of that or didn't notice or didn't care or all of the above. Nonetheless, the clear winner was the illusion the government/s created - through fear-mongering and vaccine-coercion - to justify the seizure of bank accounts.

Never forget that this very year bank accounts were seized - in Canada. How could anyone - albeit everyone - not express outrage at the seizure of bank accounts?

And what of the bankers who were complicit?
What of the individuals executing the marching orders?

Nothing.

We will pretend these individuals didn't deny access to bank accounts not because we believe they were justified but because we don't really care (while claiming to care about so many less important things including gender identity).

Why did you care so much about wearing a mask and getting vaccinated yet not about the seizure of bank accounts?

Indeed, why?

Why do we ignore government impacts?
Why do we ignore reality?
Why do we care only if impacted?
Why do we only care about what the Media and Government tell us to care about?
Why no virtue signaling about the seizure of bank accounts?
Why do we believe that the seizure of bank accounts was no big deal?
Why don't we really care about human rights abuses?
Why don't we take to task all bank and government officials involved in the seizures?

What world/illusion do we live in?

The world created by individuals who don't want people to believe that seizing bank accounts is disturbing, much less criminal - a world in which few call out the guilty.

Everyone involved in the seizure of bank accounts goes home nightly without a word from neighbors, friends or family - much less the media. These bank and government staffers who prevented good people from accessing their money continue to do business, sit on boards, go to parties, impress people with their titles, coach hockey teams and, worse, raise children.

History astounds: why the majority always on the spineless side of wrong?

Why the whistleblowers always ostracized - or strung up - by fashionable opinion then celebrated by history?

Sure, truth sets people free but never on time. Always late, truth is, only showing up when the majority allow it.

Never forget: it should never be right to seize the bank accounts of peaceful protesters. Not then, not now.

Never.
Ken
 

CANADA'S SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION Suffer...


CANADA'S SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
Suffering from government over-reach Canadians can identify with Shawshank Redemption.

Andy Dufresne

Warden Norton learns from Tommy that Andy is innocent and could set Andy free - that is if Norton was loving. Instead he kills Tommy and keeps Andy around to help further financial scams.

The Warden has the knowledge and power to set Andy free but instead uses him to defraud and deceive.

Trudeau has the knowledge and power to set the nation free.

What does Trudeau know?

Everything.

Trudeau knows the unvaccinated aren't a threat.

Trudeau knows vaccines don't work.

Trudeau knows the rate of transmission has always been low.

Trudeau knows the harm done - past and present - by mandates to people and businesses.

Trudeau knows vaccine side effects including death.

Trudeau knows that little danger exists in letting unvaccinated Americans into Canada.

Trudeau knows that little danger exists in allowing unvaccinated people into the workplace.

Trudeau knows the uselessness of mask-wearing.

Trudeau knows the effects of lockdowns and business closures.

Trudeau knows the poor integrity of invoking the Emergencies Act and criminality of seizing bank accounts.

Trudeau knows the darkness of unleashing cops upon peaceful civilians, positioning snipers upon Ottawa buildings and along Huron Church Road in Windsor.

Trudeau knows the mandate objectors weren't/aren't terrorists, misogynists or racists.

Trudeau knows the lies he's spread through the media.

Trudeau knows convoy organizer Tamara Lich's actions didn't justify imprisonment.

Trudeau knows the Senate articulated their ethical uneasiness with the Emergencies Act with political expertise and personal conviction.

Trudeau knows the outlooks of respected world leaders, doctors and scientific experts.

Trudeau knows the absurdity of maintaining mandates while the U.S. and other nations demonstrate the safety of returning to normal.

Trudeau knows everything yet guards the doors to employment, business and travel from inmates undeserving of restrictions, rules and discrimination.

Trudeau knows our suffering yet stares us down through iron bars of denial and disassociation.

Not only is Canada's Warden unreasonably heavy-handed he's punitive to great minds, injurious to great democracies and dangerous to great economies.

To deny an innocent person his freedom, rights, access to employment and/business has been and is indignifying.

Would he send his child to bed without eating?

Would he force his child into a two year time-out?

Would he smack his spouse because he fell out of love with her?

Trudeau is guilty of domestic violence under the pretense of self-defense - with Media as legal counsel without a Public Defender allowed in the courtroom.

Two years our leaders abused their citizens with impunity.

That's the state of Canada.

In the end Andy Dufresne's escape from unreasonable and unjustified detainment exposes the darkness of the powerful.

Andy's hope may have set him free but unlike the movie Warden Trudeau still holds the keys.
Ken
 

INVOLUNTARY BREAKDOWN May 11, 2021, ...


INVOLUNTARY BREAKDOWN
May 11, 2021, my River & Wine tour.

I am hosting a woman of high finance from Queen and Bathurst.

"Doing it twenty years," she says. "From the time I was seven I wanted to be a CFO. Didn't know what it meant but knew what I wanted."

Celebrating her 37th birthday on her own, she says, because her views on COVID have sifted away most admirers.

Right away she is ranting about the "plandemic" and, mystically, in her passion I feel this peace.

Though I don't believe the virus was planned I have felt alone for questioning the questionable including vaccination.

As always solo guests prove best for uninterrupted and ever-deepening conversation. Today is no different. Today two Canadians are allowed to question the intelligence of lockdowns and stay-at-home orders - her high I.Q. and exposure to finance lend credible sauce to the pasta I've been forking miserably fourteen months.

Taken in by the river her mind gushes through all states of affairs, especially her breaches with family, friends and fiance - all rocks to her now, unmoved by her rapids of ethics and reason.

Engaged to be married, she says, but separated due to "his unwillingness to wake up."

She meditates upon the sound of rushing water and repeats like a mantra how great this birthday, how she'd booked a kayaking experience but the lady had to "cancel due to COVID 19."

Her thoughts glide from the beauty without to the restrictions within that seem to be pinning her down and raping her rights to mind, body and love.

I give her time to herself then we sip at the waterfalls. She is so overtaken she runs into the river without caring about shoes and socks. Not usually done till June she is so awed by her surroundings she needs to feel the river too, the freezing Spring run-off through her soles.

I tell her to cross to the rock that juts out over the canyon. She peers down between waterfalls. She breathes deep and takes it in.

Talk resumes on the road back. Then to the winery. I join for two tastings then leave her with two servers. By the end she has lined up a case to buy and seems a long way from her usual thoughts, a day's escape from the masked-up persecution.

Then it changes in a tear drop.

"I can't believe what's happening to Canada," she weeps, the three of us trying to console her. Before our eyes a highly polished genius fast-drips into a puddle lamenting Canada's lapse.

She goes to the bathroom to collect herself then returns and settles up. Back in the car she sobs uncontrollably, her face at the window muttering, "Where is Canada? I don't know where Canada is in anymore. I don't know where I am anymore."

This high functioning mistress of Queen Street slaughtered to pieces by the Rule of Law and its oblivious victims. Desperate for rescue she appears a sparkle of light from a boat in the sea we can't see.

So strange, so beautifully dressed, her face perfectly made but mascara streaming like the river. Unraveling before my heart - yet far from the eyes of the media and people - she is anguished about loved ones that don't love her any more - and nothing breaks a body like love withdrawal.

She knows the people mock her for thinking at all let alone thinking as she does so she is moving to Central America, she says, "taking my savings and getting the hell away."

I love her - not romantically but unconsciously, without reason. Because she seems to need it.

In a country that claims such empathy for minority views her meltdown means losing to the masses and proof that love is never the reason for government over-reach. We both know that recent acts of unreasonable dictates is just oppression dressed in compassion.

I am rubbing her back as she weeps at the window but nothing can heal the silent and frightened disquiet induced by unquestioned influencers and their unquestioning believers. She seems so abandoned - so rejected by her culture and community that she has lost control of the rest of what's left within her control - her senses.

She thanks me for just being here, for not believing her crazy or uncaring.

I stop at Grand Oak Culinary to get her a sandwich and coffee and she is whimpering like a little girl now.

I carry her wine into her Airbnb unit and when we say good-bye she is wiping tears and apologizing - for an involuntary reaction to a nation cloaked in humanity reduced to insanity.
Ken
 
General Helper - St. Catharines, Ontario

Help & Van

Negotiable

Experience: 5 - 10 years


I'm no handy man. I have 0 skills but can lift a couch and help with small jobs. Have a mini van for small moves. The photo shows a different type of skill.
Ken
 
Listener - St. Catharines, Ontario

Listener

Experience: 10 - 20 years


As a social worker, have worked with individuals, couples and families to help process feelings & experiences. Look fwd to hearing from you.
Ken
 
Walking Group - St. Catharines, Ontario

Country Roads - Mondays

Free


Monday, February 19 2024
Monday, February 26 2024
Monday, March 4 2024

13:30 - 14:30

Ages: 18 - 75

Inquire for more info!


Monday afternoons hit a different country road within 15 minutes of St. Catharines. Farms, hills, creeks, trees and sky - what more do you want? Breathe in the air and love life all over again. Nothing too strenuous.

Get in touch!

Bring:

Good walking shoes, water.
Ken
 
Craft Beer Group - St. Catharines, Ontario

Craft Brew Wednesdays

Free


Wednesday, February 21 2024
Wednesday, March 6 2024
Wednesday, March 13 2024

16:00 - 18:00

Ages: 19 - 99

Inquire for more info!


Every second Wednesday we'll visit a craft brewery! St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, NOTL and surrounding has enough craft breweries to keep us busy!

Bring:

Sense of humour and none-to-pretentious attitude toward beer.


Ken
 
Musicians – Jams & Collaborations - St. Catharines, Ontario

Late Night Jam - Thursdays

Free


Thursday, March 7 2024
Thursday, March 14 2024
Thursday, March 21 2024
Thursday, March 28 2024

20:00 - 00:00

Ages: 19 - 99

Just show up!


Hosting musicians of all types for weekly jam.

Bring:

Musicians: bring your instrument/s and collaborative spirit
Ken
 
Coffee Hour - St. Catharines, Ontario

Living Room Cafe

Free


Monday, February 26 2024
Monday, March 11 2024
Monday, March 25 2024

09:00 - 10:00

Ages: 18 - 99

Inquire for more info!


Every second Monday 9 AM the coffee and jazz are on in my living room.
Ken
 
Other – Activity - St. Catharines, Ontario

Open House Monthly

Free

19:00 - 21:00

Ages: 18 - 99

Inquire for more info!


The last Sunday of the month an open house, come join the conversation!

Bring:

Drinks if you wish.
Ken
 
Wine Group - St. Catharines, Ontario

Wine Monthly

Free


Sunday, February 18 2024
Sunday, March 17 2024
Sunday, April 21 2024

20:00 - 23:00

Ages: 19 - 99

Inquire for more info!


Third Sunday of the month meet at my place to sample wines. Meant to be casual sipping of all varietals from any region.

Nothing too serious. Just a good sharing of wine and conversation in a relaxed room. Chill atmosphere.

Bring:

A bottle of wine and sense of humour.
Ken
 
Books - St. Catharines, Ontario

Jerry Garcia & Grateful Dead


Bunch of books available including a great book about Jerry Garcia & the Grateful Dead. Come grab 'em!
Ken
 
Books - St. Catharines, Ontario

Read Henry Miller


A few books by my favorite author Henry Miller.
Ken
 
Books - St. Catharines, Ontario

Anais Nin Diary


Fantastic writing by the under-appreciated Anais Nin.
Ken
 
Books - St. Catharines, Ontario

Brave New World


Aldous Huxley's classic.
Ken
 
Books - St. Catharines, Ontario

Secret Life on the Mexican Border


"By the Lake of Sleeping Children" - an incredible expose by Luis Alberto Urrea.
Ken
 

Guest room available!

Private Room. Private bathroom. 3 nights max.

Price determined upon inquiry.


Ken
 

Event space available!


Small but quaint space for house shows. Willing to host small bands, solo acts and improvisation comedy acts. Tell me what kind of performer you are and we'll go from there!

Price determined upon inquiry


Ken
 

Rockway Vineyards - Live Music Wednesdays

Free

17 August 2022

17:00 - 20:00

Ages: 19 - 99


Live music every Wednesday 5-8 pm at Rockway Vineyards!

Not exactly a House Show in its strictest definition but a live show nonetheless!

Wednesday July 13 through August 17, 2022

Wine, beer, mixed drinks and dinner available for enjoying on the patio with stunning view.

True Location: 3290 Ninth St., St. Catharines, ON