Personally, I agree with every issue you just brought up. I do think that this is part of the movement towards a new world order, and a smartphone is just the next step towards having a microchip in your hand. Is there a way around it? not really. Is it convenient? You betcha. Even the more dedicated conspiracy theorists have and use these tools.

And the microchip will be for your convenience and security. People will ask for them and spend their (points) money to buy them. We will love our servitude just as the OP is pointing toward. I think all these concepts are relates to a single governing body or "New World Order"

I absolutely think that you are correct. There's too many coincidences in this world for me to believe anything else.

Of course - the founders along with many others were prophets..

"Anyone willing to trade security for liberty deserves neither and loses both." - Franklin

Just replace security with convenience (because it's sure not convenience to be insecure, right?).

Interesting theory considering that this year's Bilderberg meeting attendees precisely matched the list of people you would need to make this happen:

• Keith Alexander - Commander USCYBERCOM & Director at the NSA

• Bill Gates - Microsoft

• Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates

• Eric Schmidt - CEO of Google.

• Chris Hughes - Co-founder of Facebook

• Jeff Bezos - Founder and CEO, Amazon.com

That just goes to show that your ideas were ahead of your time. Your first submission was a full month before the June 2011 Bilderberg meeting.

I can't take any credit for connecting the dots. I read an article about a similar topic that connected the dots for me about a month ago.

Now the question is what to do about our newfound knowledge?

Yes, but I'm in a hedged position at the moment to preserve wealth. There's too much damn uncertainty out there these days to consider taking any big risks without inside information.

There's too much bullshit out there in the media to base trades on fundamentals. I'm a technical trader who occasionally reads the news but rarely lets it decide my trades. I'd never be able to stay awake this late if I had to stay glued to the news 24/7 on a trading day.

anyway, Speaking of Alex Jones..... I just happened to listen to his podcast the day before the Norway incident. How crazy was it that he predicted that we would see a white terrorist the day before it happened?

We are already in the "gamepocalypse". A few other comments refer to the obvious: money as a scorecard. You mentioned the reddit Karma points system. Everything is connected because it works. The motive is control and profit.

The individual has to intentionally and selectively disconnect from the matrix. The two hardest things for most people are: stop watching TV; and eat healthy food. If you do not you will be hungry, angry, lonely and tired.

Figure out what is happening within, without and to you so you do not fear. You are most easily controlled through your emotions.

Corportions are going to grab as much as they can without being sued out of existence. The US intelligence either infiltrates or investsin these companies to get intelligence. It DOES appear that this is being done in a targetted way to collect intelligence on US citizens in a grnd "Big Brother" control network, but people do appreciate the convenience as long a they ignore or respect the dangers. For me, I walk around with a smartphone device that contains a webcam/microphone that can be hacked to see and hear me, a GPS to see I am, the internet to track my interest and direct comms and social networks to see who my friends are and what my family looks like on vacation. I understand the risks but appreciate the convenience...

Dr. B. F. Skinner. Or, how I learned to stop worrying and surveil myself.

Your main question seems to be one of concerted effort versus emergent phenomena.

I'd like to think this is both. Stygmergy (Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell et al) leaving behind the mental scaffolding for a scientific dictatorship, and then bored people building the prison.

That's speculation on my part but either way I'd say you're on to something.

Glad to know someone else was paying attention to the Jesse Schell gamification talk. All Seeing Eye reading the logs? All watched over by machines of loving grace? Your grandchildren are going to be able to learn your username and read this thread. That's the main thing.

Previously, people would assume their every waking moment was being observed by god, and wrongfulness would result in hell, but this.. This is the real thing and nowhere near as intimidating. Most of your online actions will be at the fingertips of your descendents hundreds of years from now, and they're going to judge you. Hardly as harsh.

Devil's advocate. Openness on social media could be seen as a step toward community. Individual problems can be handled easier by the group or the group could be alerted to a member's needs. A perfect example of this is finance. A lot of people would greatly benefit from airing personal financial issues. Someone in your circle knows how to budget better than you. If your financial woes were public, you could get help. It feels like a small step towards a truthful society.

Money is a kind of a point system, isn't it? Who got the most amount of dollars dictates the rules of the game.

Cash is King. He who has all the cash is King.

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Yea that's after our cash becomes worth less than the paper its printed on.

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Sometimes I think the West helped promote the Arab Spring to drive people's discontent towards the supported dictators to a new Western backed "democracy," since the Neo-cons ultimate goal is to democratize the world. Of course this is speculation I am not saying its true just a thought sticking in the back of my mind when the reports came out of Propaganda software to control multiple profiles at one time.