Our Desideratum page was published when our website began in January 2024. These thoughts were added ten months later.
It seems to us the world currently doesn’t work very well. We want to get things freely and easily. Putting something back in the pot isn’t our first thought.
The problems are big but to understand better would be a start. Important people, we believe, know about the more frightening aspects at the bottom of our paragraphs below but consider it best to keep the information to themselves. We think that is a mistake.
Some of us don’t like paying taxes but still want the best of public services, free health care and education for our children.
Some of us don’t like change. The world moves faster but we don’t want to keep up. It takes us out of our comfort zone. We look inwards, comforted by ourselves.
Some of us don’t question. We want an undemanding life. Let sleeping dogs lie. It is better that way
Some of us are reactionary against people not like us. We don’t like black people, or white people, or men, or women, or children, or foreigners, or immigrants, or politicians, or anyone with legitimate power.
Some of us shut our eyes to what is really happening around us. We are susceptible to group think. When things go wrong we go into denial that anything could be amiss.
Some of us spend time training wild animals and birds to behave unnaturally, to the puzzlement of those who see it.
Some of us are obsessed with always being in control, and believe we are even when the reality of the situation shows otherwise. Our sole purpose is to disrupt the lives of others.
Some of us with others are encouraged to believe they are invincible, leading to amazing arrogance.
Some of us take an unhealthy, unwanted interest in others. We become fixated, repetitive and compulsive in our behaviour.
Some of us are fascinated by making unfounded comment on social media to control, destabilise and alarm. It is a habit forming way of making others fearful.
Some of us set out to make groups fall out with each other, whether it be family, friends or groups. Misunderstandings and mistrust account for a lot. The principle of divide and rule can work very well.
Some of us think it great to intimidate, including by driving erratically on our roads. Those already in a state of anxiety don`t find it possible to resist.
Some of us love to play silly games to get publicity that the media then report.
Some of us wish to create pedestals on which to place others. They can then push them off in an embarrassing and public way.
Some of us take pleasure in being difficult, especially if it inconveniences a lot of people, such as in travel delays.
Some of us are enthralled by creating peculiar behaviour through putting intolerable pressure on an individual. Once you have a person where you want it’s amazing the outcomes you can achieve.
Some of us think it is funny to do things which break the rules. Most of us cannot understand the attitude, and find it offensive and hurtful.
Some of us bully vulnerable individuals so they drive their cars into houses or shops for fear of what otherwise might happen to them or their families.
Some of us target innocent folk, secretly arranging things in their private lives so that the victims don`t see the truth of what has happened to them.
Some of us are obsessed with bodily functions such as the excretion of faeces and menstrual fluid. Perhaps a few work for UK water companies.
For some of us money is everything. To get more of it is the motive for everything we do. Shoplifting in gangs is great fun.
Some of us just wait for that financial opportunity to arise. When chaos reigns it is not hard to put up prices and make a quick buck. The pandemic was very useful in that respect. Inflation is destabilising to democracies.
Some of us believe, as a matter of allegiance to their clan, that it is an absolute necessity to keep their actions hidden from the main body of society.
Some of us, otherwise ordinary people, are encouraged to believe their sole purpose in life is to produce problems for others. The toolkits with which they are provided make it simple to do.
Some of us think it extremely clever to secretly adulterate food and drink, in our homes or public places. When sedated you do not know what is happening to your body. Over time dilute chemicals can be added which will weaken bone in knees, hips and teeth.
Some of us, due to their psychology, do not understand the harm they do to other people`s minds through their actions. Some people encourage them in that mindset, for their own ends.
Some of us are so emotionally attached to their group they will readily do every easy, hateful task asked of them, without question. They don`t want to lose their membership.
Some of us believe it is of vital importance to be able to oversee every aspect of our electronic lives, as if that will give them an insight into who we are. It might be simpler for them just to take part.
Some people wish to project an aura of menace in the lives of ordinary, and important, people.
Some people think they own the outdoors whether it be motorways, country lanes, allotments, farmers’ fields and yards, footpaths or dog walking parks. There are many of us who want, or have a need, to do favours for others.
Some people spend a lot of time creating money making schemes, whether it be skimming off traffic and parking violation fines into private bank accounts or tricking innocent folk into moving cash electronically to countries far away.
Some people make it their business to ensure illegal drugs are easily available. If you are a young person and everyone around you is taking recreational, addictive substances you have to be extremely strong willed to resist the peer pressure involved.
Some people love to manipulate the microchips we use in everyday life in water meters, electricity meters, household appliances and mobile phones to produce false readings and indications.
Some people put great effort into getting the mindset of a victim in the public eye finely attuned. They then play unsettling games, with them and us.
Some people use the principle of divide and rule as an article of faith. If you are at the top of the tree it isn’t difficult to do. Countries and large groups, whether good or bad, are encouraged to fall out with each other to the extent that physical hostilities break out.
Some people use planes flying high across national boundaries, and lower within them, to create extremes of weather.
Some people give an unconscious victim a drug which puts them permanently to sleep. A subsequent post mortem examination is not able to find any trace of the substance.
Some people have access to nuclear material which causes human cells to become cancerous.
Some people spend long periods to groom terrorists to frighten established society. They wish to dehumanise us all.
Some people drill deep holes on land and at sea for the purpose of dropping nuclear material down, and then exploding it.
Some people use death as a political, persuasive tool. They would be loath to admit it but that, we suggest, means they can be persauded as well as us.
One of our favourite songs is Barbra Streisand’s The Way We Were. The trouble is though, unless we are all prepared to do our bit, the way it’s been for too long will never change.
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