Greetings! My name is Zarina Macha, and welcome to my blog. Here’s an introduction.
The Evolution of the Blog
I started this blog in January 2017. Originally it was on Blogger, but I shifted it to the much classier WordPress in 2020. My main desire to start blogging was to document much of my thoughts on life, politics, film and television, and just about everything I am interested in. I wrote articles heavily critiquing Feminism (which I now make YouTube videos on). I also wrote about psychology, television shows, technology, social issues, philosophical questions, just about anything that came to mind really.
I currently have over 300 published blog posts. I am currently going through them all (it’s a rather tiresome task) and updating the SEO and general formatting. You’ll find some of the posts don’t have main images because I am still updating them. When I moved to WordPress, I used the Wishful Blog theme, but after taking a break for a year and coming back in 2023, I decided to choose The Blogger Pro theme. I like this theme a lot more, and am tinkering around with it as much as possible to make the blog look as good as possible.
Besides from editing the formatting and presentation, I’m not bothering to change much of the actual post content. There’s obviously a tonal shift in how I wrote in 2017 compared to how I wrote in 2021, or how I would now write in 2023. This is documenting my intellectual evolution, and I think it shows how we can all grow. It’s kind of cool to think that those out there like me have literally grown up on the Internet, and that we can document the span of our entire lives via the Internet. I suppose we’re the first generation who are able to do this. There’s obviously no way that I’d think the same way at twenty-one that I will do at thirty. Personal evolution is something to celebrate, not something to shame. You’ll find my political views were more secular and liberal-leaning up until very recently. I now don’t really align myself with liberalism or any political faction (except anarchism: right now, I’m 100% against all Western governments since they have continuously failed to look out for their citizens. I also blame the Western politicians for instigating World War 3, just as they were the ones who started the first two world wars). I am now more interested in spiritual development and becoming closer to the Universal Source (or God; different word, same thing) rather than wasting time with politics.
I used to share my blog posts a lot on Facebook (before it became a cesspool for censorship) and on Google Plus. Google Plus was fun because there were hangouts and I got to connect with others who also thought ‘outside the box.’ Unfortunately, Google Plus was shut-down in 2019. I kept right on blogging, though. I’m the sort of person that will write and talk even if I’m talking to thin-air.
I didn’t post anything in 2022, as during 2021 and 2022 I was focusing on writing and rapid-releasing a romance series, and making author videos on YouTube. As of 2023, I’d like to start blogging again around Autumn.
The Importance of Free Speech
One of the main reasons I began blogging was to do with the dreadful culture war that has been brewing in the West. In 2016, Donald Trump won the election in the US. I seldom publicly admit this, but I always liked Trump, and in hindsight, would have voted for him both times. Was he a ‘nice’ person? Obviously not. Was he the best presidential candidate ever? No. However, I admired his bluntness, his candidness, and his transparency. I liked that he was addressing Islamic terrorism (a genuine problem that most Western politicians are still alarmingly passé on), and that he was standing up to the growing toxicity of political correctness. I also liked that he didn’t start any wars (unlike some people) and brokered peace with China, Russia, and North Korea. The minute he’s out, World War 3 is starting. That’s enough to make me think the US backed the wrong horse. I hope he comes back in 2024 to straighten things out.
As it happens, the UK (where I am from) is extremely hostile to Trump supporters, so I never openly said I suppoted Trump. Being at university in your early twenties in the UK, and saying that you like Trump, is asking for serious trouble. I’d simply calmly defend him or say “well, he’s not that bad”. In this day and age, simply not hating Trump makes you a Nazi. I have indeed come-of-age in the most troublesome times for intellectual diversity (and yes, I have lost friends over my opinions, and even had my blog referred to as a ‘Nazi’ blog. I’ve also been called a contrarian, a rather intellectually lazy term used to discredit anyone who thinks differently).
I did have one very early blog post from 2017 titled “Why so much hate against Donald Trump” which sadly I deleted (I have gone through periods of buying into a lot of the political peer pressure over the last several years, which sucks. Self-censorship is the cruellest kind of censorship).
As someone who has always supported free speech and open discussion, it has been shockingly alarming to see how extreme political correctness has grown in the West over the last ten years. If you speak out against Islamic terrorism (or criticise Islam in any way), you’re an Islamophobe. If you criticise Zionism or Israel, you’re an antisemite. If you speak out against Feminism, you’re a misogynist. If you say there are only two sexes and that allowing kids to have a sex change is child abuse, you’re a transphobe.
Basically, if you deviate from whatever the standard narrative is on anything, be it covid, climate change, gender issues, Black Lives Matter — literally anything in the social zeitgeist, you are outed from society.
This is not good. Scratch that, it’s downright dangerous.
We have completely forgotten the old maxim of I don’t agree with what you say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it. Instead of remaining open-minded and encouraging free thought, even with viewpoints we disagree on, people shut each other down. People no longer ask questions or encourage curiosity. They simply insist that the other side is wrong, and anyone who disagrees with them is a bigot.
How childishly totalitarian.
(For arguments’ sake, I got the covid jab three times, and I have plenty of unvaxxed friends and family. Not one of them is any less of a person for not having been vaccinated in my eyes.)
It is now 2023 and I am twenty-five, on the verge of publishing Tic Tac Toe, a novel I started writing around 2018. The most shocking thing about that book is that when I started writing it, it was largely a joke. I thought to myself “maybe this won’t be relevant in five years.”
Five years later, and I’m not sure if that book counts as fiction or foreshadowing.
Political correctness, wokeness, cancel culture and identity politics has stopped being a ‘bit of an issue.’ It’s no longer ‘annoying’. It entered danger zone when a children’s author was crucified by the masses for saying a few tweets that happened to be the ‘wrong thing.’
I so badly want to believe that the world is beautiful, but it’s hard when we live in a world rife with ugliness.
Free speech must be protected at all costs if the West is to survive. Without free speech, we are all silenced into submission, and then it’s easy to play with our lives. When your freedom to speak is gone, the next thing is your freedom to live. With World War Three fast approaching in the West (and the guy who didn’t start any wars constantly booed at by the mainstream media), I wonder: if we don’t act now, then what hope is there for our lives?
If alternative voices don’t matter, then this means our lives do not matter. Diplomacy is not enough anymore. People like myself have been speaking up for so long and we are not being listened to. We are not being heard. Folks like David Icke and Alex Jones have been warning us for years, and still, their voices are shut-out and spat-on by the mainstream world. This is double-plus-ungood.
So, it is my hope that blogs like this can continue to protect free speech. The mainstream Western media have failed us all miserably. But we have the Internet, meaning that alternative viewpoints will always be there. Hopefully as long as we can keep on speaking, our rights and freedoms will not be taken away.