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Great & timely topic. At the end of the day "social credit" is one piece of the emerging transhumanist pie that is incrementally being thrust upon not just Americans but every citizen all over the world. This pandemic offered a decent preview of what it may look like when a technocratic elite decides who's "in or out." If you're willing to put things in your body, be tracked, and go along with someone else's idea of the "greater good" then you don't have to worry right? If you comply and keep your comments to the pre-approved narrative, you can have "freedom." The problem is you're not actually free if your ability to go places, do things, and think for yourself is mitigated by those who have decided what you're allowed to do with your mind and body.

Technocracy, transhumanism, and social credit will bring a new kind of slavery that will be touted as safety and freedom. Long ago in America when some blacks were slaves, they had to have permission to leave the plantation and they had to show their papers to any white person who asked. The question to ask from this paradigm is: will you fight the bright shiney distracting enslavement or acquiesce to it? After this pandemic, I now know many will find their happiness in slavery, even if they must sacrifice family, friends, and freedom to do it. They may have to lie to themselves so they will have to lie to you too. We all just saw the most prolific and omnipresent propaganda campaign in human history. The next campaign for social credit may be even worse.

Keep up the good reporting Jim!

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Great piece, Jim. There is one other macro American concept that will animate our opposition to this idea ever being deployed here: the decentralization of power is in our DNA. This concept underlies every decision that was made in setting the federal government up to begin with.

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This newsletter edition is certainly that, ‘news’, and also, thought provoking, especially when parts of sentences say “… you can be arrested for walking your dog”.

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I enjoyed your article Jim. Did you see the show Black Mirror episode called "Nosedive"? That's when I first started thinking about this idea.

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