I was reading the "Social Credit Score" (SCS) system they are rolling out in China. If you are not familiar with it, basically, all of China's 1.4 billion citizen will have a SCS assigned by the governtment (the Chinese Communist Party).
Everyone starts with, say, 1000 points, of Social Credit. If your behaviour is good, you will have points added to your SCS; if it is not good, you will have points deducted.
What behaviours are good or approved of, and what behaviours are not approved of or bad, are determined by the state (the Chinese Communist Party).
Now, here's the scarey bit. The system works by using high-tech surveillance networks. For example, individuals can be physically monited in public through face-recognition spyware; all of the data an individual receives or creates and sends on the internet through iPhones, lap-tops, social media platforms (Twitter, "What's App", etc) is monitored. 5G networks/technology are currently expanding the range and levels of intrusivity of this centralized government surveillance of individuals/families in China.
This is a real-world example of the terrifying totalitarian technocracy depicted novels like "Brave New World" (1932) and "Nineteen Eighty Four" (1949). These novels were, as you know written as dystopian science fiction, but the reality of this Social Credit Score (SCS) system that has already been implemented in China,- and is now becoming more sophisticated and comprehensive with every day- is not fiction.
To give you an example... suppose you are a Chinese citizen and you make a comment to a friend on your IPhone that is critical of President XI (suppose you call him "Pooh Bear" which was one of his nick-names in China until he took offense and banned it!) or suppose you you write an article or essay for an on-line mazagine that contains some passages that are somewhat critical of Marxist political philosophy. You would shorly be sent a notification from the government that you had had 100 points (or whatever) deducted from your Social Credit Score.
The problem is that one you being to lose TOO MANY point of Social Credit, then you find...
* Your SCS is too low to be allowed to use commercial aircraft for travelling within China
* Your son or daughter has their application for a place in a one of your town's better quality schools automatically rejected.
* Your applications for promotion at work are routinely turned down.
* The amount of gas you are allowed to purchase for your car each week is cut by 20%.
* You need more living space for your growing family, but you are told that you do not have suffienct SCS points at present to qualify for a larger home from the Department of
Public Housing.
And so on.
The opposite applies if you behave in a manner the CCP finds praiseworthy/laudable. If you regularly visit your elderly parents; if you quite smoking (the Chinese have a serious problem with tobacco abuse in their cities - most Chinese males smoke like f**king chimneys) if you do regular charity/volunteer work on weekends for the poor or homeless in your community; if you post a at birthday card each year to Chairman Xi at CCP HQ in Beijing; if you make lots of comments to your friends on "What's App" saying how cool and enlightened the Chinese Communist Party really is, or if, say, you publish a BLOG on the internet that teaches how Chairman Mao was a very misunderstood Chinese Leader who was, in fact, a genius, though he is still branded a tyrrant by the West whose scholars have never understood Mao's truly sublime brilliance.
If you behave like this - in a manner/s approved by the Party -then your Social Credit Score will have points added to it; and the more SCS points you build up, the more privileges and liberties you will be entitled to...For instance...
* You will find it easier to gain promotion at work.
* The number train journies that you and your family are permitted each year on the State Rail Service will be increased.
* You will be permitted to buy extra amounts of luxuries like: beef steak, fresh chicken and ice- cream.
* You may be invited to take a place on the Executive Committee of your local branch of the "Green Action For China" movement - (a national climate change initiative spear-headed by Beijing's Chief of the Ministry of Environment and Ecology, the Honourable Hoo Did Poo
* If you are a model citizen, with a high SCS, you may even be invited to Chairman Xi's Grand presidential palace in Beijing to attend a special gala dinner where you will have the opportunity to meet current high-profile members of The Central Polituro, comrades like: Han Zheng, Sun Chunlan and even rising stars like, Wun Hung Low
in person !.On a totally serious note... this Social Credit Score (SCS) system that is being developed is a reality in China today. It relies on mass surveillance systems like China's "Skynet" which incorporates: facial recognition, big data analysis and Artificial Intelligence. Of course, as surveillance technologies become more refined and advanced, they have the potential to become ever more intrusive. In the novel "1984", George Orwell introduced the concept of a "THOUGHTCRIME" which was the crime of thinking thoughts that the totalitarian state in the novel would regard as unacceptable. In China there is surveillance technology being developed which aims uses individuals': body language; reflexive speech and facial expressions, etc; as means to gain a closer into peoples' thoughts..
To me the use - or the intention to use - comprehensive, mass intrusive surveilance technology by China to control the behaviour of its people is INSANE, just in principle I mean, the totalitarian technocratic States that Aldous Huxley and Geroge Orwell wrote about in "Brave New World" and "1984" were science - fiction; now it's becoming real in a nation on 1.4 billion people !
I often wonder... WHY is it ALWAYS FUCKING MARXISM that is at the heart of these nightmares. It was Marxism in the former Soviet Union under Stalin, that was the inspiration for George Orwell's, "1984", and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", two of the greatest novels in the English language. And what is their message in a nut shell ? I think - to get right down to the _nitty-gritty" - it is that the left's obsession with egalitarianism and what today's Democrat progressives (who are essentially, 21st century Marxists) refer to as "equity"; the idea of promoting collectivist thinking, or implementing communalist policies as a blueprint for improving human societies, IS ABHORANT AND TOXIC TO ALL CIVILIZED HUMAN BEINGS What I mean by collectivism is the slogan that is promoted by the totalitarian state in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", namely: "EVERYONE BELONGS TO EVERYONE ELSE". In Huxley's "Brave New World" people no longer exist as individuals - there is ZERO individual freedom/liberty. In the "Brave New World", human life no longer has no real worth or dignity.; it has no genuine meaning or value or purpose.
How many times do adult human beings need to have explained to them, how and why Marxist/collectivist/equalitarian/Democrat "progressive political ideology is GUARANTEED LETHAL I don't know. I mean, look at China... during the reign of Mao Zedong, which was not all that long ago, there was wholesale slaughter (some of the most brutal and horrific shit you could ever imagine), torture, incareration of COUNTLESS MILLION Chinese citizens, whose only crime (if any) was not to toe the Communist Party line. There was also the mass, deliberate destruction of priceless, Chinese cultural/religious artifacts, beautiful sculptures, statues, literature and other artworks some of them thousands of years old. You would think the Chinese would learn, but no, they haven't. Today there is still a Marxist Party (the CCP) running China - they government is still murderous "Big Brother", the Chinese people have no genuine individual liberty, no real human rights, etc.
My view is that if China refuses to learn from the past; if its people are content to accept life in a Marxist state - THEN FUCK THEM. Let them live like that if they wish, but do not EVER permit the CCP to try force their POISONOUS political ideology on any of the world's civilized, free Western countries If China makes ANY aggressive movement toward the West, the President of the United States must be the kind of man who will say: "STOP !! DO NOT MOVE ONE MORE INCH IN OUR DIRECTION, OR WE WILL UNLEASH ALL HELL ON YOU - AND THAT'S A PROMISE.
That last thing I want to say is that there may well be reasons that the Chinese race are vulnerable to Marxism. Firstly, they DO , generally speaking, possess a collectivist mind-set. They are psychologically disposed to think in a collectivist terms when it comes to social life. That's a matter of empirical scientific fact, BTW, according to many reputable psychological research investigations. The way I interpret this is that our thoughts (cognitions) are generated by our brains, and the structure and function of all of the different regions of our brains is predominantly genetically determined. So if you are born Chinese, you will be born with a brain that is genetically programmed to give you a collectivist world-view (especially if you are raised in Chinese society until the age of 27 or so, which is when the prefrontal-cortex - the thinking/cognitive region of your brain- is fully matured).
As for those American Congressional Democrats who are members of their Party's current "Progressive Caucus", there is no excuse. They have NO EXCUSE to be embracing Marxist ideology in the United States and actively pushing for the implementation of communist policies like
1) CRT and revisionist fake history such as the "1619 Project", not to mention bullshit like pro LGBTQI material and transgenderism in American public schools; (2) Mass industrial-scale abortion, that sickens any moral person who contemplates it for more than 2 seconds, plus INFANTICIDE (which is a form of murder AND NOT a form of "Reproductive Health") I mean what kind of human being pushes for legislation like this ?(3) pressing for the expenditure of TRILLIONS of dollars on "Green New Deal" social programs, which will amount to nothing more than pissing good money up against the wall and inflating the economy even more, causing grief to every sane American family in the US. I mean, do you really think that normal American adults who work and pay taxes, trust a fuckwit like AOC, when she tells them that spending trillions of dollars on her (insane) GND is a super-duper idea ?? (4) An "Open Border" policy. This is simply bat-shit crazy; and that's all I need to say on the issue I think (5) Giving individuals who entered the US as illegal immigrants a reward of $450,000 ???? I could go on and on. The point is that this is all MARXIST EVIL. It is, tragically, what the Congressional Democratic Party have now become; and if that's the case, THEY NEED TO BE OUSTED, ASAPIn conclusion...
I think that there needs to be legislation passed asap,BANNING THE THE EXISTENCE OF ANY MARXIST/SOCIALIST POLITICAL PARTY OR ORGANIZATION IN THE US, no matter what it calls itself (for ex, BLM Inc. should be a banned organization, likewise the CPUSA, I would even go as far as to argue that the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) are now essentially more a Marxist political organization, than they are a bone fide Teacher's Union. INDIVIDUALS would be free to hold MARXIST/COMMUNIST/SOCIALIST/COLLECTIVIST political beliefs in accordance with the First Amendment, BUT they would NOT have the right to ASSOCIATE. They would be prohibited from forming any kind of political Party/organization/pressure group/community group/association, etc.
What do you think ?
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