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RE: The Economist And The World In 2019
Catch a monkey?
I did watch with interest the India affair, and also have friends over there, my mate Nigel told me a lot of people just trade goods now, like rice for meat etc, to avoid tax and government.
For every action and all that jazz.
Yes that is also happening in Greece as well, the law of cause and effect .. don't get me wrong, in the long term I don't feel as if they will ever break the human spirit, but you can see the intent. I think of all these countries as pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, trialing the social monitoring system in China, the stealth banning of cash in India .. observing how the public would react when the banks stole peoples cash in Cyprus .. i.e the bail ins. The rise of an internet of things that promises to track every product in the entire world. Smart dust and smart grid that they want to monitor every facet of our lives .. indeed , if there was some kind of financial meltdown or a war that pushed everyone into the mega smart city, self determinism would become increasingly difficult. It's also difficult to comprehend now, but ten years, twenty years. a hundred years? who knows what they can manipulate future generations into believing. There will always be a large percentage of people go along with what they are told .. equally they will always be a hardcore that refuse to be told, this is a race to the finish line .. but ultimately like you say .. freedom will prevail, although it will need to be intellectually fought for.