What’s going on here is with this central banking digital currency (CBDC), if you get to that situation where you end up with the Chinese social credit system in the West… Why? Why would anyone want to do that?
I believe we’re in a moment of the Gutenberg press. Go back to when the printing press was invented. Technology disrupts power structures. It always has. Printing and its invention was a new technology. What happened when they invented the printing press? The power structures who, up until that point were reading the Bible for you and were telling you that you will pay this priest X amount of favors and he’ll forgive you your sins. And that became a bribery system, which was what Martin Luther was so upset about when he pinned his thesis to the wall. The printing press disrupted that power dynamic because people could read the Bible for themselves. And they began realizing that the power structures were manipulating what was written, to control people.
Now, nobody in hindsight is going to argue that printing and its invention is a bad thing for humanity. But at the time, it lead to war. It lead to the
Thirty Years’ War in Europe because it disrupted power so much that people began rising up and it lead to this 30 year period of war, which eventually lead to the
Reformation and the rest is history.
What’s today’s Gutenberg press? The Internet. The decentralization of information and then because of that — the Internet — the decentralization of currency in the form of crypto is disrupting power. Because the way, that after the revolution of the Reformation — the printing press — control was still possible — though obviously not to that level which is why we no longer have those absolute monarchies — but control in a nation-state context was still possible to an extent because the money supply was controlled. Now what’s happening is that the invention of the Internet, with the decentralization of information and, in particular here, the decentralization of currency in the form of cryptocurrencies is disrupting those power hierarchies and it’s leading to this conflict now. And we’re in a moment when the printing press was invented, the Powers-That-Be needed to try and hold on to that power as the Thirty Years’ War kicked off. They eventually lost it, but to hold onto it they became very brutal, because they were losing their grip on power.
Today, this is what I believe we’re witnessing. It’s not about vaccine passports. This was a red herring. To have the infrastructure in place that you you can have a Checkpoint Charlie society, so that when the central bank and digital currencies are in place that infrastructure’s already there because people were so scared that they voluntarily allowed you to put that in place, so that you can maintain your grip on power because what’s coming around the corner is the decentralization of everything, of media, therefore of narrative. And of course remember, whoever gets to define the truth gets to define reality. Decentralization of narratives. Decentralization of the economy through crypto. You no longer have the power to define the story and control the money supply. So the powers that be, who are losing that power, need to clamp down. They’re clamping down on their own children, because we are people who are born of the West. So it’s an internal civil war in a hybrid war context over truth and over information. Centralization versus decentralization, basically. It’s no longer about nepotal (?) rights. It’s about up versus down, It’s about power versus those who don’t have power.
