Why it's not that far off
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Demolition Man
avortac — 10 years ago(March 02, 2016 06:16 AM)
One day very recently, I was returning some books to library.
(Books are big papery things with words and sometimes pictures printed on them, library is an institution where you can borrow books, DVDs, CDs, magazines and other media in a physical and nowadays even non-physical form - although 'ebook borrowing' is pretty ridiculous, as there is so much 'pretending' happening in that. Just a FYI for the modern generation)
There was a notice on the desk that they stopped using cash as of this year. No longer do they accept cash for payments. Granted, the only thing you would have to pay nowadays is 'overdue fines' (when your book (remember the description up there) or DVD/CD/magazine/etc. is 'late' - i.e. you haven't returned it by a certain date - the library imposes a fine that you have to pay. Otherwise, people would just keep these things indefinitely, and soon there would be nothing to borrow).
Still, if libraries are giving up cash completely, and only accepting 'card money' or 'bank transactions', 'electronic money' etc., it puts us on a dangerous path.
I have noticed the 'self-service' system in grocery stores. You can't use cash there, either.
So, there's certainly a trend going on - something or someone is pushing us all towards a 'cashless society', whether we want it, or not. The infrastructure is mostly already in place, and it's already partially happening. Some parts - even old, trusted institutions, like libaries - are already cashless.
Cashless society is already happening!
When -everything- is completely cashless, and cash is abolished completely, and no longer usable anywhere, it's not going to be long until we have this kind of divide amongst people who accept and celebrate the system (poor, brainwashed, loyal, false authority-worshipping sheeple-automatons), and people, who simply refuse it.
We will have this 'underground' society of ragtag people who try to tell the truth to the masses (in vain of course), and who are constantly attacked by the so-called 'authorities'.
Especially when they start making under-skin microchip implants mandatory.
If you refuse, you are basically completely out of the system, on your own.
They already have implanted prisoners, animals, etc. so it's not a big stretch that everyone will at some point be implanted, or die of starvation. When you can't buy anything without a chip under your skin.. it's going to be an impossible situation for you without some kind of 'criminal' network (though I think it's more criminal to implant living beings with microchips, unless they really need it, like heart patients etc).
Many people, even some people I thought were very 'awake' about these odd truths about this world that the masses rather not even think about, have so alarmingly easily accepted that they have to implant their dogs, for example, for traveling to other countries. They see no problem with this, although they (if anyone) should know what this world is -really- like, and refuse such monstrosities and crimes against nature and the Universe.
I bet many of IMDb users have implanted their dogs as something 'normal' and matter-of-factly. But if these same people were to hear about 'under-skin microchip implants' 20 years ago, they would laugh it as something completely crazy and lunatic!
And now there's no more cash in certain libraries .. the direction is clear. Soon it will be all libraries. Then it will be a few other places, until it's als grocery stores. And many people will celebrate this, because it's "progress", you know. Cash is 'archaic' and 'obsolete', and such things need to be despised (and I still have and use a video game console from 1977, and see nothing 'obsolete' about it - good game is a good game for all eternity. Otherwise, why wouldn't poker, chess and other card and board games have become obsolete by now?).
Soon, probably too soon, cash won't be accepted anywhere. This means they can freely change the 'format of the card' to anything they like. If they decide that only implants can buy and sell, who's going to stop it? And if that happens, then every human and their pet are going to be implanted.
Except a few rebels, who will go underground, steal food and distribute it to themselves, just like in this movie. It's scary, how well this movie predicted things, but too bad it didn't go into the technical part as to HOW they managed to make everyone so 'pure in thought' - - could it be that the microchip implant controls behaviours, attitudes and thoughts?
Let's face it; this world is controlled by power-hungry, megalo-maniacal, moloch-worshipping, cruel and cynical oligarchs, who want more power, more control and more possessions every day. The only way they would ever stop making things more miserable for the inhabitants of this planet, is if they have 100% control.
The only way for them to get 100% control of people, if they can not only control their actions, their money, and so on - but also, if they can also control their thoughts.
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Emhilradim — 9 years ago(April 05, 2016 02:03 AM)
I am a little surprised, you talk about the cash thing and the cash thing alone, and don't mention all the other crap that's changed in the past 20 years since this movie was made that's "progressed" society to be much closer to the vision of the future that was Demolition Man. Watching this movie, it's literally a world where progressiveness is law, and you must be all accepting and all loving, you only work because you want to (and get no special compensation for it), you can't use profanity, can't express yourself in any meaningful way, and sex and pregnancy are illegal.
Watching this movie 10 years ago for me was a "eh, whatever, it's funny and quirky." Watching this movie for me, (right now, as I type) is a god damn dystopian nightmare because I think to myself "this is pretty much what they're trying to do. I can see this crap actually happening."
I would be like the Edgar Friendly character and live underground, because the last thing I would want is to live in a future where choice and enjoyment do not exist, where life is merely existing with no real purpose. What really baffles me in this movie is that there's all these police, but I can't imagine what they're for, in a world where everyone is so keen to get along. -
BubbaDank80 — 9 years ago(August 06, 2016 09:49 PM)
I have an implant in my johnson so I can see where he goes and control who he does. I'd be up poops creek without it. You know, swimming with STDs while having happy joy joy thoughts during a taco bell dinner and three sea shell follow-up.
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themightyperm — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 12:12 AM)
Switching from cash to cards is nothing. They're both valueless fiat currencies that only act as a virtual medium of goods. It's not like we routinely trade gold and silver for goods at the supermarket.
We went off the gold standard decades ago. The fact that we trade printed paper for goods only works because we have faith in the government's anti-counterfeit measures.