Irresponsible Out-of-Control Greed May Be Causing Untold Human Suffering and Misery for All Life

Concern for my kitten’s health leads me into a world where human-produced sounds torture the innocent.

Are they suffering in silence while we carelessly and unknowingly make their lives miserable?

Is it Possible that my 4-month Old Kittens have been Driving Me Crazy for 4 Years?!

November of 2018 was the night I saw the stars in the sky move into a pattern of two hearts. It was in November of 2021, three years later, when I saw a painting of that very scene.

An impossible scene I witnessed with my own eyes somehow got captured by an artist who never saw the event I’m sure that only I saw on that night three years ago. It now hangs in my house. For your contemplation, here is that painting:

I looked to that painting for inspiration tonight while thinking about how much I love my kittens. The painting now reminds me of them and how they protect each other from the unknowns of the big, scary world. (And the big scary rooms in that world.)

On March 11, 2022, I adopted, rescuing from certain death by euthanasia, the two most adorable kittens the world has ever seen.

It is a great understatement, given with all my love and respect, to recognize that my kitten Ryan is one of the great Artistic Masters of Life.

His life is an art, an act of creation in motion inspired by the Heavens. He creates masterpieces that could rival the likes of human savants known for creating masterful eloquent pieces of music or the work of geniuses whose abilities crisscross the spectrum between divine order and the depths of shadowy madness.

Like Beethoven, Mozart, Einstein, or Aristotle are to the human race my Ryan is brilliant, in his kitten ways, while creating his art. He most surely must be admired and beloved on his home planet.

He is a Director, Producer, Choreographer, Method Actor, Trickster Comedian, and a Daredevil Stuntman.

A natural superstar on the canvas of the soccer field, he possesses a heart to melt the hearts of fans everywhere. His skills have been recognized galaxy-wide, earning him a God’s Grace award as a soft and caring Lover.

Maswood Alam Khan famously said, “Football is an art players paint with their feet.” My little artist has four feet adding a dimension to his art that no human can match. I have no idea who Maswood Alam Kahn is. The name was much more common than I expected when I looked into it.

Ryan edited those last three paragraphs where I paraphrased his self-introduction. It is a view of self that may seem strange to us humans, but he is just a kitten. He is what we would call a “perfectionist” when it comes to his art.

I’ll never finish this article if I keep pausing to get his input.

There is nothing Ryan fears as long as he feels safe.

There is also nothing he doesn’t fear if he’s not in his element. He is bigger than life, especially considering how small he is.

The is one thing he fears when he is in his own element, relaxed and safe at home: That is the jingle of the bell inside of a little green plastic ball I got for him.

Considering the swiftness his four furry feet showed me, showing off his mastery of soccer using his tiny squishy rainbow ball, I figured he’d love the little plastic green ball with the bell inside even more. It rolls and makes noise, or so I reasoned.

I’ve never seen his eyes open wider with greater terror when that plastic green ball jingled. I’ve never seen his fluffy swift feet turn and scamper away as quickly as they did when I rolled that jingling ball down the hall.

I hear cats have sensitivity in their hearing even greater than dogs.

They can hear the annoying frequencies given off by our electronic devices like our computers, TVs, and phones. At least part of a modern cat's daily world is filled with a low-level annoying BLLIEEEE.

I guess our closest human comparison would be tinnitus. Tinnitus affects about 20% of the population. It usually isn’t a serious health condition. However, 1 in 6 of those who suffer from chronic tinnitus have suicidal thoughts.

Nearly 10% of women and 5.5% of men with tinnitus have attempted suicide.

Only 0.5% of the general population have attempted to take their own life. That means that humans with tinnitus have a 10–20 times greater chance of being so despondent that they resort to taking their own life to end their suffering.

Ryan’s twin at birth is his sister Rayne.

They were 8 weeks old when I adopted them. It is now just 10 weeks later. They are four months old. Although you can’t see it in this picture, Ryan is about double the size and weight of his now smaller sister. Apparently, this is not uncommon in domestic shorthair cats.

While Ryan will eat anything you put in his face, Rayne has always (for these past 10 weeks) been more dainty. At least, I am assured, that she is healthy and growing at a decently normal rate. That is until 5 days ago when she stopped eating altogether except for about 5–6 small pebbles of kitten kibble a day.

As her activity level declined and wasn’t playing with her brother as much, I took her to the vet.

A doting father’s concern for his newborn daughter. Thankfully, she came back with a clean bill of health.

So, I am left wondering: What is it in a healthy, stimulating environment for a kitten that would cause her to stop eating?

The event with Ryan and the little green plastic ball with the bell inside happened when we came home from the vet. His reaction is what piqued my interest in sound as a possible factor affecting the mood of my female kitten, putting Rayne into her current funk.

Without an underlying physical condition, I had to be open to the possibility. I love my kittens. I want them to be happy and healthy.

I feel that Ryan was, through his art, giving me his professional opinion as a 4-month-old cat.

His diagnosis of his sister’s condition. He loves his sister deeply and he loves to play with her. His unspecific meows of worry amplified my own concern.

Another synchronous auditory event was the arrival today of a small mouse toy that, apparently, makes 20 different noises. We played with the mouse for a while. I could barely hear the sounds the toy mouse was emitting.

However, they could hear it clearly from 20 feet across the room when I squeezed their new toy for the first time, and it emitted one of its sounds. It was much more engaging for them than it was for me.

I am a longtime sufferer of tinnitus. I’ve had it since I was 8 years old.

44 years. On a majority of days, about 53%, I don’t think about it. On the other 47% of the days, I am aware of the loud BLIIEEE in my head. It has gotten louder over the years.

Our understanding of tinnitus seems about as deep as it probably was for the Neanderthals. From what I’ve read, I don’t think our understanding of the condition has advanced much at all in the last 130,000 years.

One thing is for sure, those that have expert knowledge of tinnitus have about as much expertise in it as the Pope does in marriage.

I don’t understand why those in a position with the ability to help progress our understanding of something (how to have a successful marriage, the nuanced symptoms of tinnitus, the proper design and feel of bras, etc.) never listen to those who are affected by that “thing. “

Advancing our understanding of sexuality would never have gotten off first base if gays were never listened to by those around them. If, as a group, LGBTQ people continued to be perpetually silenced, shuffled off, imprisoned, and/or killed, there would always be something missing in our understanding of human sexuality.

The same is true for tinnitus sufferers: Ear doctors don’t listen to their patients. Irony.

I’ve had the condition for 44 years. I think I know what I’m talking about when I say that I now have 2 tinnituses. There is the same old low-level, high-pitched continuous BLIIEEEE that I’ve heard for 44 years. But, there is also a newer noise now. One that came into being about a decade ago. One that varies in frequency, volume, and intensity.

Both would be given the label “tinnitus” without any more thought to it. Even so, I am confident that the two noises (yes, I’m going to insist on that point) have two different causes. First of all, they started about 35 years apart. Second, they sound different.

Third, it’s my friggin’ head and my ears! I don’t have tinnitus. I have two different tinnituses.

And, from what I’ve read, that statement would likely be laughed off as the naive utterings of a layperson by an Otolaryngologist (ear doctor) and his “expert” opinion.

I see no reason to casually dismiss the possibility that the constant BLIIEEE coming from 2 computers, 2 televisions, a wireless router, a mobile phone, an air purifier, and a refrigerator in the immediate vicinity of kitten Rayne every day could be causing a slump in her mood, leading her to not eat.

We cannot listen to those who are not speaking.

At least, I think that’s currently a well-accepted supposition. I have my reasons to doubt the veracity of that statement, but that’s another story.

My kittens may not be speaking in the way we understand the word speaking, but they are by their very existence communicating.

Even at 4 months of age, Ryan and Rayne know a lot more about being a cat than the entire human race combined. Although they aren’t speaking, maybe we should listen to them.

In other “sounds not in the news” news, I still wonder why city-dwelling humans put out so much noise pollution.

It’s enough to disrupt the natural environment of several species on this planet, without seeming to notice. I also wonder how they put up with the noise.

I don’t hear many people talking about the cacophony of noise that gets emitted by pad-mounted transformers (the green boxes that sit in all residential areas. They take electricity from the main power lines transferring it to the local grids), overhead power lines, older damaged electrical systems, and the like.

Maybe it’s just me. But, it’s not just me.

Some quick research via Google informs me that some people hear this auditory mess, but most do not. Instead of questioning the health, mental or physical, of the small percentage of humanity that can hear this garbage, why not instead start from this point of view: BELIEVE THEM.

There are a handful of multinational corporations spending millions of dollars to “prove” that nothing harmful could possibly result from 5G, 4G, wireless networks, our cell phones, refrigerators, air purifiers, or our laptops. They fund pseudo-scientific studies which are obviously biased toward a specific outcome.

It’s possible that we are living in collective denial.

We’ve been force-fed a false paradigm whose false truth is pumped up and backed by the powerful money of Big Technology and Big Government while at the same time all or none of those things may be causing cancer.

Despite the plethora of tainted research backed by governments, multi-billion dollar international corporations, and Google that hit the top of my search results when looking into the topic, we now know enough to determine that “electric noise pollution” causes disturbances in humans with symptoms ranging from inducing anxiety, insomnia, headaches, depression, fatigue, and dizziness.

So-called “low level” noise pollution may cause decreased ability to concentrate, and trouble with memory.

I would err on the side of caution and go with the idea that the electricity around us that powers our global society while providing us with the conveniences of our modern lifestyles could potentially be deadly. The electricity we use to power our lives is a double-edged sword. It comes with hazards and benefits.

I am disturbed by the fact that so much status-quo money is spent to disprove the paragraphs above. It’s like the 1950s when medical doctors prescribed cigarettes to cure anxiety. Governments are trying to conceal the truth of these health hazards because they don’t want to deal with the fallout.

All corporations that make use of electricity, which is all of them, have a vested financial interest in keeping the public in the dark.

The entire human race would immediately go into a state of deep denial, realizing the challenges that such a discovery would present to us.

This is an uphill battle with 100% of the human race taking the side of murder, suicide, and the destruction of the human race as we know it as well as the mass extinctions of hundreds of billions of lifeforms.

We are told not to trust the scary fear-mongering websites that are out to exploit our lack of knowledge in the topic so they can sell us their snake oil cures for “an imagined condition.”

What about the trinkets like iPhones and HP laptops being sold to us by those on the other side of the argument? Are we potentially murdering our Aunt Ruth who just happens to be hypersensitive to electricity so that we can download funny cat videos 9 seconds faster?

Are the 9 seconds faster really necessary? The lives of your own children are worth it since it appears to affect children the most.

Is blindly moving forward with full-force rolling out 5G while squelching people’s legitimate concerns really the most prudent and wise move we could make?

Maybe I’m just a wacko conspiracist or I’ve fallen for the persuasive words of wacko conspiracists.

I’m just trying to get my 4-month-old kitten to eat. I want her to be healthy and happy.

I shouldn’t’ single-handedly have to take on the entire foundation of all global society and the entire financial system just because I care for my kitty.

To answer my opening question: perhaps, yes, just by being who they are, my 4-month-old kittens have been driving me crazy for 4 years. Cats are strange and mysterious, even in this modern day of scientific explanations. And pseudo-scientific explanations given to us by potentially murderous companies that put profits over people.

Maybe there is a “cats only” dimension of reality that we aren’t privy to, a dimension where time flows differently than the linear way we humans are accustomed to.

Maybe we are blocked from all other universal life for a good reason.

Thus far we have been telling ourselves the situation is hopeless and that we are powerless to do anything to protect the health and well-being of ourselves and our children.

If we can’t do anything to protect a human race, which we’ve come to view in the worst of light, can we do something to save my kittens? I know they are innocent. They don’t ‘deserve to suffer.