Good post, but i hope and pray you are wrong! I often think about that time magazine from, i think 1989?.....with the digital coin on the front marked 2018. And i sometimes think that where we are now is too coincidental, especially with "their" push toward a cashless society.
Have we fallen hook, line and sinker for their grand plan.......or, as you say, have they been beaten at their own game?
My thoughts are actually the later as my instincts tell me we are at the beginning if something game changing in a positive way.
Meanwhile the governments of the world are losing control as more people wake up to their self promoting agendas.