Wild Minds Weekly: Are you in control?
Hello friends,
What if tomorrow your bank blocked you from buying groceriesā€”not because you're broke, but because a computer decided you had exceeded the limits it set for you?
@iamelliegrey posted a video this week where she talked about how she was blocked from making a bank transfer to pay someone for the goods they sent (that were right in front of her). She called Monzo, they asked her for every single detail you can imagine, and they still wouldn't let her make the transfer. They made her drive two hours to the nearest branch to verify her identity.
Naturally, she withdrew all her money and closed the account.
Two days ago I tried to move Bitcoin from my Revolut account (another UK bank) to a separate wallet that was under my control. They flagged the transaction as suspicious and I had to sit through 5 minute video, answer a bunch of questions about the transaction (who it was going to and why I was making it), and then wait 3 hours.
And CBDC hasn't even been launched yet.
You've heard about Digital ID. Here's how it fits into the big picture:
We are being pushed to a society of conditional participation.
A society where your ability to earn a living and feed your family, your ability to buy a house and get medical treatment, will be based on arbitrary goals and standards that weren't decided by us.
What those conditions are is irrelevant, they could change at a moment's notice, what's more important is how this will be put into place.
This dystopian society is built on 6 pillars:
- Accreditation - who has the power to say that you meet the standards to participate in the system
- Digital Identity - binds you (person or organisation) to verifiable credentials that carry your history so that the system can easily check if you meet certain standards.
- Finance - control over how your money flows based on predetermined targets, like Net-zero, ESG goals for example. This is the goal of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
- Audit and Assurance - checks if you comply both before and after transactions occur.
- Data - captures comprehensive records of every transaction and operation
- Procurement - uses government spending to embed these requirements through entire supply chains.
*you can read more about these in this article "Mark of the Beast"
With these 6 pillars in place, we have a system where human decision-making at each step is irrelevant, where every point in the economy is controlled by a computer. You become a datapoint with specific permissions that determine who you can interact with and under what circumstances.
Your activity is measured against arbitrary targets and if the computer decides you are going to exceed those limits, it limits your behaviour.
That's why after Digital ID, CBDC is the next step. With cash, gold, or Bitcoin, nobody can control how you trade, you can do business with whoever you want. With CBDC, the flow of your money is completely at the mercy of the system.
And it will all be done in the name of safety and security, for the "common good".
But even with all the infrastructure in place, it's hard to make it mandatory, companies and individuals can choose to participate.
That's where pillar 6 comes in, procurement - the process of exchanging goods and services. The government will impose arbitrary standards on the companies and individuals that do business with them, and force them to impose these same standards on the companies and people they do business with. Then these conditions trickle-down to private companies because they want to be able to do business with government contractors.
The price of access is compliance.
You can't stop the system from being built. But you can make yourself harder to control.
How?
Take one step. Find one local farmer, ideally a mixed regenerative farmer that produces a variety of produce, and get all your meat, eggs, and milk from them. That way if you're not allowed in a supermarket because you didn't want to get jabbed up to the eyeballs, you won't starve.
You don't need to abandon the system completely (as appealing as it may seem sometimes). You just need options for if the system decides to abandon you.
Once you have your food covered, you can build from there:
Decentralise your health - build relationships with a trustworthy doctor that you can go to for treatment when homeopathic remedies can't quite cut it.
Decentralise your finances - the more you can store value in a form that isn't controlled by your bank, the better. That could be land, gold, Bitcoin, or community tokens like we have on One Tree Farm - anything that can't be frozen at a keystroke. You'll still need fiat currency for most things, but the more you hold elsewhere, the less leverage the banks have over you.
If your bank blocked your account tomorrow, how many days could you survive?
If the answer makes you uncomfortable, you know what to do.
To your freedom and independence,
Wild Minds Community
PS.
3 years ago I didn't know a single farmer. I was completely dependent on the system. Then one conversation from the first version of Wild Minds Network changed that (which at the time was just a telegram group chat). It's the reason I'm writing this email to you today.
Since relaunching the network in July, 1600 members have joined and I've already made a life-changing connection in my home country and discovered a whole group of people accessing land, farming, and securing their future.
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