It’s Not All That Bad
Something you constantly hear from the sheep grazing complacently on the other side of the hill is, “It’s not that bad ,” or “It won’t come to that ,” or “Why do you always think the worst ?”
It’s funny how these same people can be utterly convinced that their own favorite disaster scenarios—Trump returning to power, climate change, systemic racism, white supremacy, overpopulation, or the rise of the far right—are existential threats that will end life as we know it unless we immediately surrender all our freedoms to stop them. But when you talk about digital IDs, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), vaccine passports, social credit systems, or the creeping transhumanist agenda, you’re suddenly the one wearing a tinfoil hat, writes Todd Hayen .
Major disasters do happen. History is full of them.
The sheeple know this on some level; they’re terrified of asteroids, supervolcanoes, or a rogue AI dreamed up by some evil billionaire. But when a real disaster strikes, it will never—NEVER—be the one the rest of us have been warning about. It will always be the one listed as the emergency du jour: a new “variant,” a cyberattack blamed on Russia or Iran, a false-flag “domestic terrorist” event, or a completely fabricated crisis accompanied by AI-generated imagery so convincing that even the skeptics will hesitate.
If the ice caps suddenly melted tomorrow and Manhattan was flooded, that would perfectly fit the sheeple’s pre-approved narrative of climate collapse. Forget the decades of documented geoengineering programs—HAARP, stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), planetary-scale cloud seeding, or the declassified proposals to “own the weather” as a tool of national security.
No, it will just be “global warming” and therefore your fault for driving an SUV or eating a steak.
Everything that’s actually coming our way—everything critical thinkers have been screaming about for years—is simply not on the sheep’s radar. “What’s so bad about digital currencies?” they bleat. “Why should we worry about digital IDs?” Baa, baa, baa.
Let me explain it slowly:
A programmable central bank digital currency combined with a mandatory digital identity spells the end of human freedom as we know it. It’s a panopticon prison with invisible bars. Every transaction you make can be tracked, taxed, approved, or denied in real time. Bought too much red meat this month? Sorry, transaction declined—doctor’s orders for the planet. Donated to the wrong political party or a dissident journalist? Your account is frozen. Traveled outside your 15-minute city zone without permission? Fines will be automatically applied. Did your social credit score just drop because you posted the wrong meme or because an algorithm decided your carbon footprint was unacceptable? Good luck buying groceries. But, as they say, it’s all necessary, all good for us in the long run, that’s what they say… and if you break the rules? Well, you clearly deserve a penalty.
This isn’t science fiction; it’s already being tested in China, Nigeria, the Bahamas, and quietly across Europe. The infrastructure is being built right now while people yawn and scroll.
And yet the sheep shrug their shoulders. Why?
Because most of them have been psychologically and educationally primed for decades to believe that socialism, Marxism, or outright communism are not only benign but also morally superior. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” sounds noble if you’ve never witnessed the state determining your actual needs. They think communism is free healthcare, student loan forgiveness, and government UBI checks. They have no idea that it’s secret police at 3 a.m., neighbors turning in neighbors for extra bread rations, gulags, re-education camps, forced confessions, and a boot forever stamping on a human face.
Under true communism, the average person doesn’t get a cozy government apartment and unlimited Netflix. You get assigned housing (if you’re lucky), ration cards, a job you can’t quit, travel restrictions, censorship, quotas, surveillance, and the constant fear that if you say the wrong thing at the wrong time, your entire family will disappear. Your children are indoctrinated from kindergarten to report “thought crimes” at home. Your savings become worthless the day the regime decides to destroy the currency again. And if you resist? A bullet, a labor camp, or slow starvation.
This is what it looked like in the Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, today’s North Korea, and increasingly in the “soft” versions creeping into the West. Most North Americans and Europeans have never gone to bed hungry because the state decided their political loyalty was insufficient. They think it can’t happen here because they’ve been told “this time it will be different”—democratic socialism, stakeholder capitalism, the Great Reset with rainbow flags and pronouns.
They genuinely believe that the same authorities that lied about the origins of COVID, the effectiveness of face masks, the safety of vaccines, and the “temporary” nature of emergency powers will suddenly become benevolent rulers who only want to tuck them in at night and protect them.
When the digital gulag finally closes its doors, they’ll be genuinely shocked. They won’t connect the “nothing to hide, nothing to fear” mantra they’re parroting with the fact that they can no longer buy food because their social credit score is 312 out of 800.
They will blame the common-sense thinkers, or “fascists,” or “Russian bots,” anyone but the architects who told them for years that everything would be fine.
“It will never get this bad here.”
Famous last words. Just ask the Venezuelans who voted for the socialist dream in 1999 and ate zoo animals in 2017. Or the Cubans who, sixty-five years after the revolution, still line up for cooking oil. Or the East Germans who were told the Berlin Wall was an “anti-fascist protective barrier” until they were shot trying to climb it.
History cries out to us. We on this side of the divide hear it. The sheep hear only the soothing voice of the shepherd telling them that everything will be alright if they just keep walking quietly to the sheepfold.
Wake up before the gate slams shut. Because once it does, “It’s not all that bad” will become the epitaph of a free society.