Posted on 03/14/2022 7:20:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Many years ago when I was a teenage pothead, I wrote my first short story, called "The Perfect Citizen" about a young man, Justin, living in a totalitarian society where every spoken word was scripted by the state and deviation from the script was absolutely forbidden. It opened at the family breakfast table where the four members of his family (Dad, Mom, Justin and younger sister) first pulled their scripts from the wall-mounted printer and then carried on a typical conversation that involved carefully reading their lines aloud for the benefit of the state compliance agents, who – because it was a private home – had microphones but not cameras for monitoring script adherence.
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Yesterday, when a December 2021 news article was belatedly linked at (ironically enough) Citizen Free Press, I saw The Perfect Citizen come one giant step closer to reality. Under the title "Worldwide Social Credit Industry – Infrastructure to Support Social Credit Systems Represents a $16.1 Billion Opportunity by 2026," the article matter-of-factly discusses the great money-making opportunities now possible in the emerging field of police-state surveillance of the citizenry. After listing some of the multinational corporate giants competing for market share in our future slave-state, it summarized the "opportunities" in a set of bullet points:
"The COVID-19 pandemic has facilitated substantial interest in citizen monitoring solutions. …
Cameras and other optical equipment for social credit systems will reach $723M globally by 2026
Advanced computing will be used in conjunction with AI to provide nearly flawless identification and tracking
Various forms of biometrics will be used for identity verification as well as verifying the presence/location of people
Starting as tangential to public safety and homeland security, the social credit market becomes mainstream by 2026
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Bkmk
“citizen monitoring solutions”
Citizen is probably not the right word to describe the people in this context.
Residents is more accurate, largely due to the high number of illegal aliens.
I heard Tiktok people get credit for successfully propagating PutinPriceHike.
“who – because it was a private home – had microphones but not cameras for monitoring script adherence.”
Hahaha
Everyone I knew in net security had tape over their laptop and even phone cameras.
I carried only a samsung flip with no camera
Today I suspect IseeU2tv is all too common.
If I visit my sister her alexa devices get unplugged, those are some cool technology though.
Kill Putin!
Kill Putin!
If Joe Robinette Biden can call Putin “a killer.” So can I.
Plus my wife and kid need to eat.
George Soros extends his gratitude for your support in this difficult time.
I’m being sarcastic.
So am I. The Kazinsky thing was like invoking Hitler.
👍
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.Frontpage Interview with Dr. Theodore Dalrymple: Our Culture, What's Left Of It interviewed by Jamie Glazov [August 31, 2005]
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