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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

Will we get enough people resisting digital IDs you think? I know too many who will immediately capitulate.

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Frank Wright's avatar

Some people I know think covid demonstrated the state has the power to force compliance.

I’d say it broke that power. We will see.

I don’t see it working. You need compliance. It’s a very unpopular move, with opposition across the spectrum.

My view is the state is far more fragile than most believe. This, along with everything else going on, makes for an interesting stress test.

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

I suspect you are right. We must help accelerate its demise.

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JD's avatar

Unfortunately, I need to get the .govApp coz otherwise I won’t be allowed to use deliveroo or get my covid booster, so I am keen to sign up.

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Frank Wright's avatar

Thought you’d already have some trained pigeon failsafe m8

Sad.

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JD's avatar

They will lidurhally h to kill me first

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JD's avatar

(have to)

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Frank Wright's avatar

I think this is a brouhaha created by number 10 because number 10 is in a lot of number 2.

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JD's avatar

I reckon so too. I think digital id is quite likely rayciss and I object to it on human rights grounds. Will no one think of the coloureds? Minorities hardest hit!

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Frank Wright's avatar

I think you ought to voice that heartfelt appeal on question time.

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Tomasz Goetel's avatar

Lol!—and spot on.

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Áine's avatar

🤣🤣🤣 no choice

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Diamond Boy's avatar

No: no we will not get enough people to oppose digital IDs. The nature of your question makes me think you think this way. Yes?

The Trump administration could go for them: it’s in the air. We shall see.

Our goodly author says he doesn’t know what’s going to replace the current state religion. Me thinks he’s being coy. I think he knows but holds his tongue: knows or rather fears.

The outgoing religion of leftist progressive panaceas will be replaced by social credit scores, which will be facilitated by digital IDs and other means. It’s in the air.

People, your neighbors, your family members, your colleagues , are going to willingly give up their freedom as an elixir to the chaos and the anarcho totalitarianism of the progressive fantasia.

Willingly, and the MAGA crowd will follow.

The girl in the video I think her name is Webb tells us to talk to your neighbours and warn them about the dangers of digital IDs. She is very young. She may not appreciate that telling your neighbours that everything they know is wrong and that they are the cause of the problem - their beliefs - she is innocent of the fact (fact) that this will not be well received.

Soft spoken with a broken jaw: she will learn.

Social credit scores, what you get credit for will be infinitely malleable. Social credit is naked power. The content is irrelevant.

Frank’s more knowledgable than me by a factor of 10 so if he disagrees go with him .

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

I think Frank's position is their downfall will be hubris. Whatever their ambtions, social credit scores included, they no longer have the sophistication to pull these schemes off. Our elites have become a degraded bunch. They lack the talent to do much of anything and they increasingly live detached from reality.

They will try of course. But I see it all collapsing along with them.

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Frank Wright's avatar

I don’t think it will work this time in the UK - but I don’t think this is going away.

Practically all social media is feeding the digital panopticon in waiting.

I don’t think “rights” and “liberty” and “equality” will be enough to stop this. The recognition it is basically evil is growing.

Also the field is still open and there are non state actors involved who don’t share the worldview of either faction of our would-be digital overlords. Interesting times ahead.

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

I don't think any of them will have an easy time of it. I also think society is collapsing around them too. So we live in unstable times, which makes everything harder.

I predict all their machinations will bring a lot more into the open and the result will be people throwing off the polite constraints that only work in a stable society. By then many will be a lot more open to unorthodox ideas.

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Frank Wright's avatar

Reality is radicalising people who base their opinions on observing reality.

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

I think this is happening for most. Their policies are visible.

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Diamond Boy's avatar

🤞 I hope you are correct, I fear it is a different story. It may collapse all around them, but the replacement will be even worse: Social credit scores, broadly adopted. Humans like lemmings will go off the cliff. I think that’s the actual story.

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Frank Wright's avatar

The digital architecture is there for tyranny. There’s the WEF/Blair one and the Palantir/Oracle one. Broadly speaking.

Both liberalism and Zionism face a rapidly approaching time horizon meaning belief is draining from them.

The obvious “remedy” is digital control, censorship, algocracy if you like.

I’m not certain this is a done deal however, as both popular and elite dissent are significant factors.

Again, we live in a time where its all to play for, for a while at least - history has resumed.

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Diamond Boy's avatar

Fantastic thank you for your response.

Try this on for size: liberalism and Zionism are not the point. They will be memory holed with the greatest of ease: easy Peezy lemon squeezy.

My point is power and digital tyranny is a guaranteed winner, the new tool, the best tool ever and it is going to be used maximally, count on it. history is deterministic because technology is deterministic. Our destination is completely foreseeable.

People who matter are currently liberals because liberalism is the ideology of mattering. As we’ve seen, the content of liberalism is infinitely malleable. If the replacement for liberalism is reality based then you are right, we will be better off. This means that the people who want to matter will gravitate to something that is healthier. You are for Christ. It’s a strong argument.

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Spaceman Spiff's avatar

I don't believe so. But time will tell.

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John S's avatar

Digital ID will be the easiest thing to implement. "Look how convenient it is!" Social credit scores will soon follow. We'll live in a real world version of Reddit, truly hell on Earth.

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Frank Wright's avatar

Yes - if it happens. The view from people who have been in the British government, I’m told, is it will be a matter of years not months and takes a lot of money. Time and money this lot don’t have, and the other lot don’t want it.

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John S's avatar

One of the few occasions when the massive innefficiency of central government works to our advantage.

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John Brophy's avatar

I think I´ll just stamp a QR code on my forehead and say ¨Look, I got mine¨!

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Frank Wright's avatar

Digital Self-ID! What a great idea!

EUREKA! (Scribbles barcode on head with felt tip)

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Tomasz Goetel's avatar

Ah, Frank Wright has done it again. Some hilarious and horrifying dictation from the voices in his head (<compliment).

Reading his article is like watching someone very calmly and politely explain that the building I'm in is not only on fire, but was designed by arsonists who also happen to own the only fire department, which exclusively uses gasoline-based extinguishers.

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Mark's avatar

One needs a National Insurance number to get a job; and it is free to those allowed to work in the UK. It hasn't stopped the dinghies. How is making it digital going to help? Are they planning on sending the gay trans computer programmers to the beaches to stop the illegals landing?

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Ger's avatar

3 x Ave's

Salve Regina

Oro pro nobis Sancta Dei Genetrix...

Oremus. Deus, refugium nostrum et ...

Sancte Michaël Archangele

3 x Cor Jesu sacratissimum. Miserere nobis.

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Franz Kafka's avatar

Wonderful essay. Thanks.

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Frank Wright's avatar

Thanks Franz. It’s encouraging to hear that and I appreciate it.

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Franz Kafka's avatar

On “The Next State Religion”, I had a revelatory moment and it occurred to me that since rule is now mostly by spells, and not logic reason or any semblance of a read of the antiquated concept: “The Will of the People” but by spells… we are now ruled by demons. Does that make this Hell on Earth?

The magic spells in Canada are many but the one that struck me most was “Build Canada Strong”. Such spells as these are not merely accidental nonsense, syntactically and semantically, I believe. The one I cited may be an invocation the powerful demon Maurice Strong, the patron demon who engenders new spells like the curt “Net Zero” and even the primitive Trudeau Era spells like “We have your backs” and “Diversity is our Strength… meaning of course that ‘our’ diversity was the ‘strength’ of the demonic state.

If they Trotskyite Bolsheviks have come back, as I believe they have, they are even less masked than before. There is no need for it, as the ground has been prepared for them.

Such are the thoughts that arise these days.

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linda smith's avatar

ah hah! this will make for a good read on a stormy arizona day.....eomment to be added, thank you Frank.

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Pablo Singh's avatar

"Who said “I am the truth”? Anyone who really wants the truth ends up at Christ."

Boy, Frank, apparently the majority of humankind in the past 2,000 years and continuing to today are not really interested in the truth, despite producing philosophers, saints, etc. This is a no true scotsman level statement.

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Frank Wright's avatar

It’s not a “no true Scotsman” argument. It’s not an argument. It’s what I think.

I haven’t read everything but my attempt to get through the ideas from 1632 left me a bit baffled until someone said to me it was all a failed effort to refute Aquinas. A little 💡 went on.

I think Johnny Cash said it too and I think he’s cool.

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Frank Wright's avatar

Yes I don’t think people believe things for their truth value, and I don’t think most beliefs are in fact true.

Worse still, I don’t think most people think. It’s not encouraged and there isn’t much evidence of it in the product line.

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Heather McKenzie's avatar

What is the reference to 1632? Enjoying your content; thank you.

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Frank Wright's avatar

Around then (maybe wrong year) you got Descartes and all that. I often misremember the correct date here and may have made a boo-boo.

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Gary's avatar

One Nation Under Blackmail - Vol. 1 and 2 by Whitney Webb are extremely enlightening if you haven't read them. I listened to Hurt by Johnny Cash today and can confirm that he is indeed cool.

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Pablo Singh's avatar

Well I think you are WRONG and I'm RIGHT so there! ;)

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Frank Wright's avatar

That is me told. Be advised I have just chinned myself to solemnise the telting.

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Frank Wright's avatar

I deserved it btw

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Jonathan Klipa's avatar

The next state religion will be the false Christianity of ecumenism.

It will be void of true doctrine, dogma, and spiritual authority.

It will resemble the new age “Christ consciousness”. The new agers say the Christ within us. More mainstream Christianity calls it “a personal relationship with Jesus Christ”

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Frank Wright's avatar

I dunno. I agree all the architecture is there but I think it will be hard to maintain as the wider liberal platform dissolves. I prefer to believe it will make the Church look like an awkward anachronism- rather like the Japanese solder still fighting the war. But gay.

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Jonathan Klipa's avatar

Please watch through if you have some time

Gets into what I claimed but also has some important message

God Bless

https://youtu.be/Ws1SnKlVx7Y?feature=shared

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Frank Wright's avatar

I’ve written for a couple of years on how the modern church is a vehicle of the permanent social revolution.

I’m sorry I don’t have time to watch videos rn as I have a lot on. More on that later.

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Jonathan Klipa's avatar

Well at this point we would have to define “the church”

Christ speaks of a remnant certainly in Luke 18.

You are certainly correct that “liberalism” as we know it is and will collapse. But if an ecumenical Christianity replaces the state religion, that replacement is essentially another form of liberalism only acutely spiritual in nature. And therefore more deceptive and dangerous.

Interesting times.

Great piece though. Will share

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Frank Wright's avatar

Thanks Jonathan. I think you’ve got ecumenical rainbow humanism right now from the Vatican. I do think it will seem rather outmoded soon.

Apart from the obvious defection from the actual teachings of the church it’s a bad move strategically and rather myopic. All very modern whatwhat.

This is the practical unwisdom of wedding the Vatican to the spirit of the times. Times pass.

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Jonathan Klipa's avatar

Agree.

There is a false church in the Vatican since PiusXII

The Vatican II COUNCIL is the synthesis of all heresies: combining modernism, ecumenism and religious indifference

They are now one of the actors in this “new religion”

Perhaps we saw the first “service” at state farm sports arena…..

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Sean Valdrow's avatar

One: we will see a MASSIVE decentralization of power and political authority. The One Size Fits All forms of gubbamint will dissolve into large numbers of smaller polities ranging from city-states to rump-states consisting of former prefectures/states/provinces aligning together out of common interest.

Two: we will see an end to most industries-of-scale. The technology is about ripe to replace mega-corporations with micro-scale industries of digitally controlled machine tooling. This will generate a need for digital designs, which will become a staple 'currency' between, and internally to, the smaller polities.

Three: mass armies are out, giant weapons systems will not be necessary or affordable, small unit actions fought with robotic and semi-robotic weapons will be the force behind these micro polities.

Four: there will be no one 'state religion,' but as many as are needed to support the rump-states, mini-states, micro-states, and city-states.

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karnak's avatar

So, a bit like the fall of the western Roman Empire then?

Central power collapsing, giving rise to smaller "fiefs" run by the warlords?

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Kevin Conley's avatar

Very Timely! As we are about ready to enter into the final global order Beast System that lasts "ONE HOUR"; a very short time of 7 years. And yes, there will be associated with this global societal system a partner, as anointing Religious System.

This religious institution will look very familiar, very foundational in Western Civilization, yet, this is simply the facade of a House that has been infiltrated from the inside, at the highest levels.

This Religious System is now commandeered by the same ideological faction who will be stewards of the coming Beast System, as allowed by God for the purpose of keeping order while testing His true children and welcoming new Christian disciples previously on the outside.

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John S's avatar

There will be zero resistance to a Digital ID. Most people just want to watch Netflix and order delivery pizza and get on with their life of enslavement and modest pleasures. And any who resist will be labeled anti-progress, enemies of society, fascists, or whatever, and will be willingly destroyed by the mob, the state doesn't even have to do it.

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Frank Wright's avatar

Well it’s already been described as “dead in the water” in the Britain, with opposition across the political spectrum.

So there is that. I don’t think it’s going to happen and neither is the other ploy - full scale war with Russia.

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John S's avatar

Just because it's not happening this time doesn't mean it's gone. It's obvious that it's the wet dream of many politicians, and it will come back.

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Jonathan Klipa's avatar

Just keep an eye on this particular part of the script.

It’s going to accelerate.

None of the other distractions are of importance really.

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linda smith's avatar

honestly, i have no knowledge of our 'true history' bits and pieces perhaps, however , my perspective is we,those of us currently here, have not ever been in this situation before, so considering over 50 years of watching this movie, i feel if this doesn't go to hell in a handbasket, we need to start a new.....solid foundation and up from there, A Whole New Outline of strategy. thank you Frank. have a blessed weekend.

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Zander's avatar

Great piece

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