Two laws you cannot break are Newton’s Third Law of Motion and …
The Law of Unintended Consequences
Author: Tony Colle Thought: Raging Incrementalism and the Mark of the Beast Germany didn’t wake up one morning and all of a sudden Hitler had a tight grip on the entire society and culture. The Soviet Union didn’t all of a sudden find that it had slave labor camps. Just like Rome, gulags were not built in a day. They were built one-by-one, and so will the Mark of the Beast and its economic system come into existence incrementally. Most change happens incrementally. Most often the majority of the people don’t even know it’s happening until it’s too late. It’s like boiling a frog. Turn up the heat slowly and it acclimates to the hotter water until it’s too late. Stalin started by exiling people who actively opposed the Communist revolution and continued until anyone who looked at him the wrong way was either executed or locked in prison. Even radical Islam in its most extreme follows an incremental progression from “we submit to Allah” to “you should submit to Allah”, to “you must submit to Allah” and finally “if you don’t submit we will kill you”. Even Christian history is not as pure as the Savior it professes with its Inquisitions and sword-edge conversions. It all happens when zealots take control of the engine of change. “Think like us or we’ll stop you from being able to think.” The same will happen with the Mark of the Beast. I don’t write this prophetically, simply logically. When credit cards first came out, they were a real pain in the keester for business to accept. I remember my parents and their restaurant having to keep the back carbon that must be legible. Payment could take up to two months while you wait for your money. Stores hated them but they were forced to take them. As electronic systems came into being, stores were more ready to take plastic so now card issuers had to start on the public to make them not just acceptable but desirable. With promotions, cash back, rewards, and other gimmicks and promotions, people were encouraged to use plastic and not money. Today, it’s all about convenience and if you are one of the troglodytes who still uses filthy, disease-laden cash, you should be ashamed of yourself. If technology doesn’t convince you to switch to cashless transactions completely, peer pressure and society will do it. Scorn, ridicule, and “go to the back of the bus” mentality will put insurmountable pressure on people to conform. Let’s not forget the government. Notice how you can get back the excess money taken from your paycheck quicker (it’s your money, for crying out loud!) if you go electronic. Social Security recipients are told how safe their payments will be if there are no checks. Welfare recipients now must use debit cards in place of food stamps. It’s too the point where the government doesn’t even want to accept the money it prints. As we get used to this kind of technology the last straw will be that the government will no longer do any of its business with checks or cash. We’ll be lucky if they even decide to print currency or mint coinage for the collectors. Your White’s Metal Detector will become next to worthless because any money you find will have nothing other than sentimental value.
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