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No matter the shouts of warning, no matter our history we'll rush headlong into all this like our hair was on fire. It is the flaw and the gift our species I think. I'm gently trying to warn and prepare my adult children. They hear my words I think, time will tell if they heed them. Or if it'll matter ultimately.
I have a lot more experience than expertise, still have both eyes and most of my fingers though.
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08-14-2020 08:55 PM
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The first to get the mandatory chips will be the GI's. They are government property. Next, criminals. They have diminished rights when incarcerated, and jails are too expensive, so the ankle bracelets will turn into chips. Then the elderly. Got to keep track of Gramps, he is prone to wander off, and needs his med records at hand. Then the kids. It's for their own protection. Tag 'em at birth. The rest will follow. At first, voluntarily, as currently in Sweden and elsewhere. Faster access to secured areas, then easy financial transactions, as is already in use with the cell phone Apple Pay etc. Cash will be eliminated for the plebs by and large. Can't always tax a cash transaction, too much lost revenue. Then the screws come down. Oh, no potato chips for you this time, you've had your allotment of salt and lipids this month. Here's your ration of soylent green.
Yep, all fiction. For now. Good Lord help the kids.
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If the populace would get off their butts and participate/vote nothing like this will come to pass.
Although with electronic balloting almost anything can be arranged.
“There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes.”
Edward Bernays, 1928
Much changes, much remains the same.
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Yes, I admit that I prefer the good old “manual” voting process.
Even though it can be arranged pretty easily too...
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My holidays are slowly getting to their end...
I read a lot. In two weeks,I read two novels from Connelly (an older one - The Last Coyote - and the latest one - The Night Fire). Both really good.
Then I took two war books. One in German, which is also available in English, about a machine gunner on the eastern front in WWII, and one written by an English field artillery officer in WWI.
I allow myself to suggest both.
In both books, the author was 18 when he got in the war.
The German account has a few lines about the use of the MG that tell you right away that this guy was really an MG gunner.
Horrendous life, incredible experience... It reminded me of Guy Sayer’s Forgotten Soldier.
The Unreturning Army, on the other hand, is a collection of letters the author sent to his mother between June 1917 and April 1918, plus the aftermath...
Great read both, and I think probably something a few here might appreciate.
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