This write-up isn’t so much a news article as a description of what is about to happen and the choices on offer, in admittedly broad, yet no uncertain terms.
In a public speech to the State Opening of the UK Parliament, which featured numerous bills, the UK’s King Charles declared that the public digital ID system would be “free to access for anyone who wishes to use it”.
The digital ID system in the UK will be an opt-in system, and will be used for government freebies such as ‘free’ childcare vouchers, tax, passports, driving licenses and naturally, an ever expanding list of things without which social exclusion will become more apparent.
A technocratic digital control grid
Alongside Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) infrastructure, the digital ID framework will herd citizens into a unified system built with the capacity to enforce conditional access to goods and services. By definition, it includes the ability to turn your money on and off, depending on your behaviour or any wrong opinions you may or may not hold. The ability to revoke or restrict car licensing or access based on your front-facing AI-powered camera is another feature, but the sky is the limit, really.
A comparatively diplomatic approach to Keir Starmer’s attempt to mandate digital IDs as a prerequisite to solving illegal immigration, the King’s speech is the chosen political layer to lubricate the public into a new age of automated behaviour modification.
The playbook is as follows:
- First, introduce digital ID as a means to bolster ‘security’, ‘safety’, or ‘efficiency’, using whichever political football is in vogue.
- Second, link its usage to payments and benefits via a digital wallet of sorts.
- Third, use the vast data centres in the United States (primarily) to enforce compliance to the trickle-down diktats of BlackRock (the current figurehead of the financial industrial complex).
Whether it’s Trump, the King of England, a petty tyrant or politician for hire in the EU, the direction is the same across the board. This system will be rolled out in every country.
For what it’s worth, the AI-stocks you buy are the very companies building out this digital prison.
Permissionless parallel economies or conditional access?
However, those plebeians who are unsure about diving head first into such an inviting future still have options; the most obvious one being decentralised cryptocurrencies in self custody; a precursor for a parallel economy without intermediaries.
It is not enough to buy an exchange traded fund (ETF) and watch the dollar or euro ticker gyrate while market makers extract value from the financial casino. In fact, buying an ETF, financial product or holding Bitcoin or Litecoin on an exchange renders this option pointless because an IOU is a promise, not ownership.
As such, self custody of funds is paramount. This can be done using various wallets such as Cake Wallet, Nexus Wallet or even a hardware wallet.
Used as intended, decentralised sound money is the kryptonite to the unfolding reality of techno feudalism.
Let me repeat that: used properly, bitcoin and litecoin undermine the entire edifice of the developing control grid.
There is no political promise that can overrule a system built with the express capacity to directly influence your behaviour.
As ever, the public is at a crossroads; to take matters into its own hands and adopt parallel systems that empower individual agency and property rights, or to acquiesce to one that takes these principles away?
The choice is yours.
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