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Now management has a convenient out. There’s an angry evil bear to pin it all on. They’re presently trying to blame inflation, gas prices, dollar debasement and the coming economic suffering on Putin and Russia. He is their scapegoat for their intentional destruction of the old system, in preparation for their new system.
Their new system of total surveillance through one digital pass (money, health, transport, society) is based on China’s model. It’s the gamification of social life. You gain points when you contribute to Fauci’s “common good”, and lose points when you don’t obey. All the central banks of the west are currently creating the greatest system of humanity’s enslavement ever devised - central bank digital currencies - CBDCs.
Programmable digital currencies that are tied to your behavior and submission and can be shut off for wrong-think. Did you march on the Champs-Élysées or Trafalgar Square last Sunday, or downtown New York or join in your local neighborhood protest against trans men going into teenage girls’ bathrooms? Your digital wallet was just frozen for holding the wrong political views. Sorry. You just got knocked off by a bureaucratic mushroom at the treasury department. Game over. Cue the mario bros. synth music.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: chris_stibrany
Like I keep saying - This is in the book. The last chapter specifically. Yeah, it's bad.
originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
This is certainly a nightmare , though a conservative nightmare, coming true before our very eyes. But what is also a nightmare is the nightmare coming true before the very eyes of liberals. We all should be free to have our own nightmares.
But put the two together, the conservative nightmare that that article sums up and the liberal nightmare that is playing out right now as well and we might be able to comprehend a more drastic nightmare coming our way.
originally posted by: chris_stibrany
a reply to: Madviking
People have been using Revelations to justify or explain their crappy existence for millennia.
originally posted by: chris_stibrany
a reply to: network dude
Yes, there are plenty of people in my life who think things like smart watches, home monitoring (alexa etc) constant 'health' tracking, digital wallets only etc are 'cool' and 'convenient' . I am sure they would love to be microchipped too.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Madviking
Culture needs both voices - liberal and conservative. But both are being drowned out in the face of the new progressives who have made their ideology into something resembling a religion that tolerates no dissent, and the State endorses it wholesale at present. We call it Woke for shorthand.
When we have a functional culture, both the liberals and the conservatives are free to discuss and debate and come to agreement of sorts most of the time. Not everything needs changing just as much as not everything should always stay the same. But simply discarding a thing because it's old is as wrong as simply dismissing an idea because it's not the way things have always been.