Using virus to chip us

I occasionally (I don't go out much) meet people, some friends and often even family, and when I hear them talk I realise that they have swallowed the cool aid.

Many gravitate to conspiracy theories, and elaborate plots that explain how the world around us is actually not this random chaotic place where we all place one foot in front of the next, just trying to survive the day, but one of incredible order. 

When everything around you can be explained away as being part of some diabolical and ingenius plot or strategy it's natural for us to get sucked in.

On the one side we have the various religions of the world telling us that there is an after life and that 'creation' was by design and  even our most unlived, unloved lives have meaning and purpose. 

It's a nice "product" and I get it. 

I would buy that, and in ever increasing numbers, we do.

Then when some supposed 'professional' tells us about the cabal that controls world and is trying to secretly chip us under the guise of giving us a lifesaving vaccine, I get how, given that bulk of the earth's wealth is in the hands of a very small number of wealthy people, how they could conspire to stay in front.

So do I believe that the wealthy are  trying to chip us?

Yes, I expect they would love to, but no.

This argument is meant to  resonate with our deepest fears and is seemingly supported by the evidence, that in this very fast moving technocratic world we are unable to use the antiquated passports as a method of identification. 

We need to evolve a better way to preserve and prove our identity, that does not give up our privacy.

So in a world that is exploring new ways to identify us there are many videos describing the chipping of humanity. Not as a shackle but as a way to make  identity impossible to be lost or stolen. More often than not, it comes away looking like a dompas. 

I see this and accept that this potential area of abuse.

Our brains are wired to find patterns. If we look in the sky we see bunnies in the clouds. We know that our brain works this way. Constantly trying to make sense of it all. When one constructs a list of arguments, and strings together events past, it's likely that we will see many emerging patterns that look like diabolical plots by some supreme intelligence.  

Then this pattern is extrapolated into the future and this is where the kooky stuff begins.  

It's not a coincidence that deeply religious people have a tendency to gravitate to this sort of thinking. 

When you have accepted that the seemingly random stuff around you are all part of God's great plan and that everything no matter how small happens just as it does for a reason, one is primed and ready. The fact that the great creeds have projected and extrapolated this grand design into the unknown future and beyond death itself shows that we humans have been wired for this. Our pattern recognition program fails to grasp things on a large scale or a small scale as we are indeed ants trying to do the math. Our short lifespans and our limited understanding as a species force us to explain the things we don't understand with myth and mystery. We imagine the stars to be holes in the fabric of the canopy that covers our earth.  Until we come up with a better explanation the pinhole theory was accepted. Then later we knew better. 

It's quite OK to put a pin on something we don't understand because it is unknowable or we don't currently have enough data to understand.  This has been the way we over the ages grew out of the cave and into Facebook. 

The danger is that our mind is a relentless pattern recognition machine. And we look at all the pins we have placed in the form of kooky explanations and we see the pins lining up and forming a message or a symbol and we are off to the races. Our ability to do limited abstraction has left us seeing messages in the tea leaves. 

M Parak 

Dec 2020.