Whenever we come across dystopian films and books, they can be viewed as masterful storytelling to be heeded as a warning to those who do not wish such endpoint versions of events for society.
Algocracy is only possible if someone submits to it. You can deny it by refusing to participate.
Start by denying access to your cellular phone. It is yours and it is your private property for your convenience only. Get rid of all apps especially those requiring and demanding facial recognition. They all have hidden T&C's where you have to surrender your privacy if you want to use their app on your phone. Remember it is a contractual arrangement (optional with get out ).
The worst are banking apps, they are the primary agents acting for the state and its Bankster (Private) reserve bank . They are all data harvesting tools All connected to the state interior dept.
Reject the demand for digital recognition and biometrics. Tell them you will appear in real life if needed at a predetermined place if they so wish.
Leave your smartphone at home or switch it off if you must carry it around to communicate with your wife or husband.
Use a hard document like an ID document or drivers licence that can be held in your hand and observed or like a passport. You must be able to feel it and recognise your photograph. Try and avoid a fingerprint if possible.
Avoid digital as much as possible and use a VPN when on the internet.
Good advice. I’ve been surprised at how many people I know who are already using facial recognition for banking apps in Thailand - now a requisite in order to transfer over 50,000 THB ($1,525USD). It can be worked around by making multiple transfers of 49,999 THB - for now, or going to a bank branch with physical ID, or using cash. Convenience will win out for most people every time. China model inbound.
I think the questions raised by a film like that are less existential than psychological. Like, "Was the person who wrote this crap raised by coyotes?" and "Are the people involved in the production of this movie aware of the unflattering psychological confessions they're making in public?" Movies and media like that are straight-up propaganda to titillate and encourage the sociopaths in the audience and to create despair, foreboding, and a sense of inevitability in everyone else. But it's not prophetic. It's not prescient. It's not inevitable. It's just the wet dream of some profoundly abnormal and disturbed people.
Are those the impotents we're going to let determine the future? People whose vision includes nothing but destruction and degradation? At every moment of every day, real humans can choose to reject that proposed hell on earth. If it's not possible to empathize with the emptiness at the core of people who ideate garbage and present it as entertainment, it's at least possible to recognize that they *are* empty: that they've produced shit and that they're psychopaths. And it's not just possible but a matter of life or death to learn how to say "No" to such self-arrested creatures. It's even more vital to mean it by being willing to follow up with enforcement.
I've sadly already been personally through a pet cull of my three beloved dogs here in Thailand. It often happens under the guise of disease control/rabies outbreaks or to prevent overpopulation especially in rural areas. These ideas are not new and have been implemented in India, China, Thailand and probably a few other countries. But is it that radically different from the PETA adopt a pet shelters who then kill 97% of the animals taken in?
I'll pass on watching the movie as the themes seem too depressing. Then again in Thailand I'd often come across some very misogynistic expats on online forums who would start ranting about overpopulation and the world is going to hell so who would bring a child into this place type of thinking. Useful idiots, the lot of them, and often quite bitter ones.
I'll be happy when God kills off this latest round of techno fascist control freaks vying for immortality...
Yes, it's radically different from what PETA does. PETA doesn't pound on your door and demand that you surrender your pets. It doesn't take them by force. PETA is evil and pointless but the animals it destroys were voluntarily surrendered one way or another.
Algocracy is only possible if someone submits to it. You can deny it by refusing to participate.
Start by denying access to your cellular phone. It is yours and it is your private property for your convenience only. Get rid of all apps especially those requiring and demanding facial recognition. They all have hidden T&C's where you have to surrender your privacy if you want to use their app on your phone. Remember it is a contractual arrangement (optional with get out ).
The worst are banking apps, they are the primary agents acting for the state and its Bankster (Private) reserve bank . They are all data harvesting tools All connected to the state interior dept.
Reject the demand for digital recognition and biometrics. Tell them you will appear in real life if needed at a predetermined place if they so wish.
Leave your smartphone at home or switch it off if you must carry it around to communicate with your wife or husband.
Use a hard document like an ID document or drivers licence that can be held in your hand and observed or like a passport. You must be able to feel it and recognise your photograph. Try and avoid a fingerprint if possible.
Avoid digital as much as possible and use a VPN when on the internet.
Good advice. I’ve been surprised at how many people I know who are already using facial recognition for banking apps in Thailand - now a requisite in order to transfer over 50,000 THB ($1,525USD). It can be worked around by making multiple transfers of 49,999 THB - for now, or going to a bank branch with physical ID, or using cash. Convenience will win out for most people every time. China model inbound.
You are spot on about the convenience attraction. It will be the downfall of many.
I have said many times that convien9ience comes at a cost with strings attached. In the case of money it is the ball and chain of the Block Chain.
You may want to read The Tyranny of Convenience. here is the link by Lilly - https://www.alilybit.com/p/the-tyranny-of-convenience
I think the questions raised by a film like that are less existential than psychological. Like, "Was the person who wrote this crap raised by coyotes?" and "Are the people involved in the production of this movie aware of the unflattering psychological confessions they're making in public?" Movies and media like that are straight-up propaganda to titillate and encourage the sociopaths in the audience and to create despair, foreboding, and a sense of inevitability in everyone else. But it's not prophetic. It's not prescient. It's not inevitable. It's just the wet dream of some profoundly abnormal and disturbed people.
Are those the impotents we're going to let determine the future? People whose vision includes nothing but destruction and degradation? At every moment of every day, real humans can choose to reject that proposed hell on earth. If it's not possible to empathize with the emptiness at the core of people who ideate garbage and present it as entertainment, it's at least possible to recognize that they *are* empty: that they've produced shit and that they're psychopaths. And it's not just possible but a matter of life or death to learn how to say "No" to such self-arrested creatures. It's even more vital to mean it by being willing to follow up with enforcement.
I've sadly already been personally through a pet cull of my three beloved dogs here in Thailand. It often happens under the guise of disease control/rabies outbreaks or to prevent overpopulation especially in rural areas. These ideas are not new and have been implemented in India, China, Thailand and probably a few other countries. But is it that radically different from the PETA adopt a pet shelters who then kill 97% of the animals taken in?
I'll pass on watching the movie as the themes seem too depressing. Then again in Thailand I'd often come across some very misogynistic expats on online forums who would start ranting about overpopulation and the world is going to hell so who would bring a child into this place type of thinking. Useful idiots, the lot of them, and often quite bitter ones.
I'll be happy when God kills off this latest round of techno fascist control freaks vying for immortality...
Yes, it's radically different from what PETA does. PETA doesn't pound on your door and demand that you surrender your pets. It doesn't take them by force. PETA is evil and pointless but the animals it destroys were voluntarily surrendered one way or another.