Post No. 3,559 - Some (hopefully) interesting reading / viewing / listening - Saturday 31st October, 2026

I recently found the following interestingoand/orouseful, and am posting them here inocase anyoneoelse does asowelll.  

This week I came across a video titled “What Kills Us? Data from 1000 AD to 2026”   on the Data is Beautiful channel   https://youtu.be/RKbb-BnbRTI   I’m a little wary of the scope of dataset this is based on - the source is listed, but I haven’t had a chance to check it out. However there are a few points that struck me - but keep in mind this is about relative numbers of deaths: just because something is relatively lower than other causes does NOT mean it is not of concern:   (1) war is generally ~1 - 2% of total deaths, except for World Wars One (highest cause of death, peaking at just over 14% of total deaths) and Two (second highest cause of death, peaking at just over 16% of total deaths). Nothing seems to crop up for the spread of the Mongol empire or some of the internal rebellions/wars of China, which I understand caused massive death tolls (see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_wars_by_death_toll&oldid=1382851285) - which is what leads me to suspect this is maybe more European focused than global. Murder started at just over 2%, but disappears off the list at around 1700;   (2) the death tolls from Bubonic plague and the 1918 flu were also major - vastly more than any other (just over 40% of all deaths for the former [another reason to suspect this is European focused], and just over 30% for the latter). Improved sanitation and health care since the mid 1700s has, I suspect, been significant in reducing deaths from these causes.  HIV/AIDS appears at 1.4% in the late 1980s, peaking at just under 6% around the year 2000 before falling off the list around 2016 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Epidemiology_of_HIV/AIDS&oldid=1376845492, and note that deaths were largely in Africa, and far exceeded the number of gay men) as dr_g ov_rdose deaths appear at 1% in 2017, COVID appears in 2019 at ~1%, peaking at 8% in 2022 and disappears off the list in 2025, as suicide appears at around 1%;   (3) childbirth death starts at ~8%, and reduces from around 1800 until it disappears off the list of leading causes around the time World War One starts until it returns around 1920 until around 1928,   starvation & famine starts at ~10%, peaks at ~12% after a couple of centuries before gradually decreasing to 2% and then dropping off the list around 1950 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green_Revolution&oldid=1381183766),   and   car crashes appear on the list at just under 2% in the late 1960s, peaking at over 2% in the 1980s, and reducing to fall off the list in 2019;   (4) heart “disease” has been a leading cause of death since around 1910 (diseases, particularly cholera, measles, and tuberculosis were generally leading causes of death), which reflects, in my opinion, the cut-off-from-nature, subservient-to-capitalism lifestyle that has been slowly growing since the development of large scale agriculture and more so since the abuses of the industrial revolution. The recent surge in relative deaths from dr_g ov_rdose deaths and deaths by self harm further emphasise that, IMO.    

 

• “Governments have turned care into a commodity. It’s failing us all”   https://theconversation.com/governments-have-turned-care-into-a-commodity-its-failing-us-all-293337   AND ALSO   “Work wasn’t built for every brain. But it doesn’t have to be that way.”   https://drvictoriaverlezza.substack.com/p/work-wasnt-built-for-every-brain   “Why cognitive equity centered coaching matters”   

• “People Mocked This Courthouse Wedding. The Wedding Isn’t What Makes a Marriage”   https://youtu.be/aENoxbo2cCQ   Excellent comments - which I agree with - by this channel   

• “Ancestor Spirits And Veneration - Midday With Rev Don”   https://www.youtube.com/live/V8UsTAXTPvU   AND ALSO   “Werewolves And Shape-Shifting - Midday With Rev Don”   https://www.youtube.com/live/VRVpT0C2WME    

 

On neurodivergenceoand associatedomatters:    

• a friend forwarded me this excellent article:   “Into the Eye of the Storm: Strategies for Managing Unmedicated ADHD + C-PTSD”   https://drbotyler.substack.com/p/into-the-eye-of-the-storm-strategies   “Bonus Section: How Autism Moderates ADHD”   AND ALSO   “Autistic/ADHD self care”   by Adam James   https://youtube.com/shorts/v36sXGEmO7w   

• A critique of a report and the, IMO, blatant LIES being told about it:   “EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW about this UK government review into mental health, ADHD and autism”   Autistic AF   https://youtu.be/4gNrJZKV9Ig   “Everything you ever wanted to know about the Prof. Fonagy review into mental health, ADHD and autism (as well as the media circus around it!).”   The call for a “needs-led PLUS diagnosis” system is EXCELLENT!!!   

• “It’s Not the Hunter Trait That Kills You: It’s the Farmer’s World”   by Thom Hartmann   https://www.hunterinafarmersworld.com/p/its-not-the-hunter-trait-that-kills   “A new study finds the “ADHD death gap” nearly vanishes once you account for anxiety and depression ...”      

 

On society, governance, humanorights, etc (noting the childish thinking of M_G_):     

• “Politicians telling us to ‘turn the temperature down’ is peak hypocrisy – Amy Remeikis”   https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/politicians-telling-us-to-turn-down   “Violence is being normalised in Australia, and legitimate democratic dissent is not the fire – it’s the alarm”   AND ALSO   “Thorpe accuses One Nation of leaving death threats unmoderated on social media feeds”   https://nit.com.au/26-10-2026/27166/thorpe-accuses-one-nation-of-leaving-death-threats-unmoderated-on-social-media-feeds   AND ALSO   “The ‘lost opportunity’ to act on hate that Australia isn't taking”   https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/the-lost-opportunity-to-act-on-hate-that-australia-isnt-taking/kv12ayi23   “Tense and violent incidents in Australia appear to be worsening, and experts are urging the government to act”   AND ALSO   As some of us have been pointing out for YEARS,   “Online hate is spilling into the real world, AFP warns”   https://michaelwest.com.au/online-hate-is-spilling-into-the-real-world-afp-warns/   AND ALSO   “How Hobart, Sydney and Melbourne are reckoning with statues of colonial-era white men in an age of truth-telling”   https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/oct/29/how-hobart-sydney-and-melbourne-are-reckoning-with-statues-of-colonial-era-white-men-in-an-age-of-truth-telling   “These misty-eyed monuments often paper over atrocities against Indigenous peoples – something that is finally being officially recognised”   

• “Does Conservatism Always Lead to Fascism?”   by Thom Hartmann   https://hartmannreport.com/p/does-conservatism-always-lead-to-037   “From the slaveholding South to Jim Crow, Reagan’s billionaire revolution, and Tr_mp’s police state, the same dangerous pattern keeps repeating. Is fascism conservatism’s ultimate destination?”   AND ALSO   “MAGA is Obsessed with Other Men”   by Lucas Bean   https://lucasbean.substack.com/p/maga-is-obsessed-with-other-men   “Why Conservative Men Can’t Stop Thinking About Other Men”   Basically, the hypocrisy of homophobes   AND ALSO   “In news that absolutely everyone in the queer community saw coming, a new study has revealed a correlation between transphobia and sexism”   https://qnews.com.au/study-finds-correlation-between-transphobia-and-sexism-who-would-have-thought/   AND ALSO   “This is the hard lesson from Israel’s election: to stop nationalist populists, you can’t play by gentlemen’s rules | Jonathan Freedland in Tel Aviv | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/30/israel-election-national-populists-benjamin-netanyahu-arab-parties   

• “Labor came to power promising a big care agenda. Four years on, how has it fared?”   https://theconversation.com/labor-came-to-power-promising-a-big-care-agenda-four-years-on-how-has-it-fared-294054   Not well ... nor have we      

 

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlightopossible flaws / issues youoshouldoconsider: 

• there mayobe flawedologicaloarguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ freeoonline course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinkingocaps on, and make up your own minds for yourself. 

 

Gnwmythr 

teaching the "good" (balancedopositive and spirituallyomature [BPM]) 
safer and more effective ways to counter the "bad" (outoofobalance, spirituallyoimmature [nonBPM/antiBPM]) 

IMO, OTAAT (“one term at a time”) is the next action to save representative  democracy, along with establishment of an organisation of human-rights observing  democracies as a functional alternative to the UN (especially the veto-sabotaged UN SC), along with all organisations being run using the seven "business" principles listed here, but also note this and this “Vision for Humanity” 

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Remember: we generallyoneed to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgenderingois an act of activeotransphobia/transmisiaothat puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptoroto prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

#PsychicABetterWorld   and  

  

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Post No. 3,558 - My latest thoughts on changing the world for the better

In terms of channging the world, theotheme that is coming out most clearly of late is that theooligarchs in chargeoof theoworld are usingopatriarchy,oneoliberalism, andoauthoritarianism toocontrol the peoples of the world. 

For theoweak-willed,ounethical,oscared-of-noncompliance sockopuppets in that system, the main problem is maleofear ofohomosexuality - in particular, that other males might consider them effeminateoorogay, which fear is then used to violentlyobrutalise and controlvother men. Second to that is the fear of SOMEowomen that they won’t be “lookedoafter” / “respected” for their stereotypicalobreeder-and-raiserorole (which is different to the genuine desire to be a parent - something held by members of ALL genders), which fear is also used to brutallyopolice other women and other genders. 

Every individual choosing to be as self reliant as they can is, IMO, one of the key ways to address this set of problems. As an example of what that could entail, even in good relationships I consider both (but particularly women) should have sufficient reserve of money and other resources to be able to leave the relationship if they choose to - which can be used as an example to encourage the same in bad relationships, and thus give women and children an escape mechanism from bad relationships. The problem with that, of course, is that four decades of amathiac, slavering sock puppet adherence to serve-the-wealthy-at-the-expense-of-everyone-else neoliberalism has made having enough money to survive impossible for many people, let alone having even a reserve for a rainy day, much less an escape reserve. 

I would refer to the suggestion that we all implement UBIs here, but 

(a) our politicians and public servants lack, IMO, the imagination, intellectual rigour, ethical honesty, professional capability, and emotional competence to cope with the suggestion, let alone honestly assess/plan for such a matter (noting the success of trials to date ... any politicians/public servants who disagree with my opinion please feel to demonstrate otherwise); 

and 

(b) voters are, in the main, so paranoidoandosmall, nastyominded shadows of who they should be after four decades of dog-eat-dog induced paranoia and bad faith that they would never vote in a government that would do that (which may change after massive job losses from AI, but that will be a situation where fewer people need to considered and the number of voters will be reduced, owing to increased death rates from the job losses - as well as the climate crisis). 

Still, the current artificial cycle needs to be broken, and, to that end, I would suggest implementing, and supporting (as much as you can, at any rate) the following: 

• developing critical thinking, emotional competence, and the ability to recognise rhetoric/advertising-type manipulation, no matter what your age or circumstances; 

• rejecting stereotypical gender roles in favour of autonomy (again, to the extent possible); 

• rejecting all opinions, actions, and attitudes that are controlling of others in the sense of enforcing conformity to what the patriarchy/neoliberal oligarchy wants; 

• having Members of Parliament who voluntarily chose to serve no more than one term at a time, to reduce their vulnerability to commercial-interests lobbying;  

• promoting  caring and kindness wherever and whenever possible;  

• talking about the benefits of UBI as a response to AI; and  

• for those who follow this blog, doing the work of this blog on these matters.  

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlightopossible flaws / issues youoshouldoconsider: 

• there mayobe flawedologicaloarguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ freeoonline course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinkingocaps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

  

Gnwmythr 

teaching the "good" (balancedopositive and spirituallyomature [BPM]) 
safer and more effective ways to counter the "bad" (outoofobalance, spirituallyoimmature [nonBPM/antiBPM]) 

IMO, OTAAT (“one term at a time”) is the next action to save representative  democracy, along with establishment of an organisation of human-rights observing  democracies as a functional alternative to the UN (especially the veto-sabotaged UN SC), along with all organisations being run using the seven "business" principles listed here, but also note this and this “Vision for Humanity” 

If you’re new here, consider looking at the Landing Page for Newbies   

If you appreciated this post, pleaseoshare it. I am now on SubStack, Patreon, 
and you can support me at PayPal (or PayPal Repeating Support Options) or Ko-Fi 
Any and all support will be greatlyoappreciated, and willoaid me in continuing this work 

 

Remember: we generallyoneed to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgenderingois an act of activeotransphobia/transmisiaothat puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptoroto prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

#PsychicABetterWorld   and  

 

Note that I am cutting back on aspects of my posts - see here, and Gnwmythr is pronounced new-MYTH-ear  

Copyright © Kayleen White 2007-2026     NO AI   I do not consent to any machine learning aka Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language model, machine learning, chatbot, or other automated analysis, generative process, or replication program to reproduce, mimic, remix, summarise, or otherwise  replicate any part of this post or other posts on this blog via any means. AI was NOT used to write this article. Typo’s may be inserrted deliberately to demonstrate this is not an AI product.     Otherwise, fair and reasonable use is accepted under Creative Commons 4.0 on an Attribution-ShareAlike basis https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/