Facialized: GovtCorp "Struggle" to Force Humans Into ID Control and Slavery Systems, Wheat Parable

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https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2019/12/05/african-countries-are-struggling-to-build-robust-identity-systems

Always a wordtwisting "struggle", always for "benefits"...
always needless, always a lie to fuck you. You are here...

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The first thing that visitors to the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg
see is a wall of identity cards-- the pieces of paper that determined
where people could live and work and whom they could love. From the
outset, the apartheid regime's ability to discriminate against
"nie-blankes" (non-whites) depended on having a robust system of
identifying people. The opposite problem confronts most other
countries in Africa today. Governments have little idea who their
citizens are [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled]. From a
report: African countries struggle for several reasons. One is racial
discrimination. Uganda, Liberia and Sierra Leone explicitly withhold
nationality from children of certain races and ethnicities. Other
countries do so informally by refusing to issue papers. Another reason
is a failure by governments to explain to their citizens how they
might benefit. Consider birth registration, the most basic form of
official identity. South Asia more than doubled its rate of birth
registration to 71% between 2000 and 2014. In sub-Saharan Africa the
rate dropped by one point, to 41%, over the same period. For poor
villagers, going to a government office to register a birth is
time-consuming and expensive, especially when officials demand bribes.
Some countries charge a fee, which is a disincentive. Others penalize
late registrations.
One way to encourage people is to link birth registration to benefits
such as child-support grants -- something South Africa did with great
success. But that approach may also have the perverse consequence of
denying payments to the very poorest. Money is another reason many
African countries have fallen behind their peers. Extending the
state's reach to remote areas can be expensive. So, too, is paying for
skilled labour of the sort required to fill in forms accurately and to
operate biometric machines. The technology itself is costly,
especially for small countries that do not have much buying power.




The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past
events, it is argued, have no objective existance, but survive only in
written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the
records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full
control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of
its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to
make it.
There has been a concerted effort to erase what remains of the
internet from 1992-2001.



Nothing truly valuable or important can ever be safely entrusted to
any Government.
That's because Governments are abstract, psychopathic entities whose
prime directive is to survive and to maximize itself. They are
intrinsically incapable of caring about people, morality, religion or
even their own "laws".




domesticate
n verb
1 tame (an animal) and keep it as a pet or for farm produce. Øhumorous
accustom (someone) to home life and domestic tasks.
2 cultivate (a plant) for food.

DERIVATIVES
        domesticable adjective
        domestication noun

As Yuval Noah Harari points out in "Sapiens",

“We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us. The word
‘domesticate’ comes from the Latin domus, which means ‘house’. Who’s
the one living in a house? Not the wheat. It’s the Sapiens”.

So, asks Harari, what did the wheat offer H Sapiens in return for
being domesticated? Not better nutrition, nor security against
violence, nor even safety from hunger and even starvation. Just the
possibility of multiplying exponentially – the [perhaps rather
foolish] definition of biological success.

“With time, the ‘wheat bargain’ became more and more burdensome.
Children died in droves, and adults ate bread by the sweat of their
brows Paradoxically, a series of ‘improvements’, each of which was
meant to make life easier, added up to a millstone around the necks of
these farmers.

“Why did people make such a fateful miscalculation? For the same
reason that people throughout history have miscalculated. People were
unable to fathom the full consequences of their decisions”.

Every good harvest tempted people to have more children, but they
failed to see the long-term implications. Eating grains weakened their
immune systems while being crowded together with farm animals
encouraged infectious diseases; and even when they had a surplus of
food, that just attracted robbers and enemies so they had to build
walls and lose workers to become soldiers. “The trap snapped shut”.