The Beast coming out of the earth (conspiracy) theory:
- “It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.” ~Revelation 13
For nearly two-thousand years, suspects have been looking for signs of this prophecy coming to fruition.
The term ‘The Mark of the Beast,’ is now firmly entrenched in our cultural lexicon.
So called
conspiracy theorists have for decades been looking at institutional documents and central planning agendas, warning that a global government was being organized to conquer the planet and enslave us all with the 'boot of technology'.
It has gained social capital for its implied meaning that someday free people will be subjected to an authoritarian control system which treats human beings like livestock to be
ID’d, tracked,
traced, controlled, milked and slaughtered when the time is right.
It implies total, hopeless, global slavery.
In an article that I have digested it is suggested that 'the masks' are the mark of the beast in larval form.
Seems a fair metaphor.
A larva is the juvenile form that many animals and insects take before maturing into an adult.
Often, the appearance of an animal in larval form is quite different from the mature animal.
In a matter of a few short months we we’ve gone from business-as-usual to cover up your face or you can’t buy groceries.
We don’t exactly understand or agree on the precise nature of the threat, but in the blink of an eye we’ve gone from masks being suggested, to masks being recommended, to masks being mandated in some locales, to masks being mandated (in some places) even outdoors in public spaces, all of this becoming enforceable by law (which is punishable by fines and the risk of arrest), and by
exclusion from the economy.
We are watching the
experts on television nonchalantly inform us that our future participation in the economy and in society at large will be dependent on our acquiescence to whatever new rules and mandates they throw at us.
We will be surveilled, monitored,
vaccinated, and contact traced everywhere we go, and in order to buy or sell, worship, go to school or gather, we may have to show proof of submission to the system’s demands.
- “Perhaps in the midst of such turmoil or following a worldwide economic meltdown, comes a momentous shift to a cashless society with an embedded device compulsory for every individual to participate in the new global financial order. However, the newly hatched revolutionary system will be one that ensnares humanity in a totalitarian global surveillance society unlike the modern world has ever seen given such advanced technology in place. We have already crossed the Rubicon.” ~Steven Tritton in 2014
In 2012 a San Antonio high school girl was objecting to the school’s requirement that all students wear
RFID (radio frequency identification) badges to track student’s whereabouts in an effort to reduce tardiness and truancy. Her father called the badges, ‘the mark of the beast.
They certainly were an ample introduction to the emergent technology that will become what many fear is the real mark.
But people aren’t stupid. They’re frightful, but not stupid.
So, for the beast to make inroads on the effort to track and trace everyone, the progression needs to be incremental.
Touching on key points of fear along the way, always increasing the intensity of the crisis so as to allow the proverbial frog in the pot to boil before he becomes aware of his imminent doom.
In order for people to accept compulsory measures like these they have to be deceived into believing that their life depends on it.
People don’t seem to fully comprehend what is being given away in this desperate hour.
But without a doubt, they will feel it, and long to have it back, in the coming
dystopian future.
My sense is that we are losing something exclusively human.
That the masks actually alter the way we view each other, and that they shift our perception of others away from trust.
Where once we saw smiles and community, now we see furrowed brows, concern and hazard.
Jumping headlong into
the dark abyss of fear, giving power and precedence to the authoritarians.
Forfeiting bits of self integrity to go along to get along.
Agitated with those who wish not to comply.
- “I contend that there is something hugely meaningful about humanity, something virtual reality can never match, something artificial intelligence can never be programmed with. Words such as conscience, compassion, warmth, kindness, generosity, spontaneity, imagination, inspiration and creativity, give some hint as to what this something might be.” ~Nigel Kerner
So for today, it’s required masks.
Tomorrow will see legally mandated contact tracing apps on your phone.
Then required immunity certificates and special health passports.
Then on to some more permanent form of traceable, wearable tech
like a tattoo or an implant.
Call it what you want, but if you want to feed your family today, you’d better mask up.
I hope time proves me wrong.
I hope that somehow collectively we manage to squash this wicked bug before it evolves into its full form.
Source: My own personalized 'paraphrasing' and some 'quotes' inspired by 'some of the same words' from ...
Dylan Charles Host of
Battered Souls: A Podcast About Transformation
