Believe it or not, there was a time when the majority of Jamaicans had no telephone service at home. We cherished the postman who duly delivered our letters and telegrams in an emergency. On rare occasions, people would line up at public telephone booths, orderly, to make collect calls to relatives abroad or use coins to call others who were fortunate enough to have shared party-lines at home.
There was also a time when the sole television station, whose signal we managed with rooftop antennas, signed on at six in the evenings and signed off again at ten o’clock every night. We were happy and satisfied with the few novel hours when we huddled before distorted black and white television screens when they were available. And we were fine, families were generally intact, church was a vital part of life, children obeyed their elders, communities were functional and the murder rate was low.
With the hustle and bustle of the telecommunication age and technology advancement, mobile phones, private computers and various other devices arrived. Today, not even the new born baby seem to be able to survive a few minutes without being attached to a cell phone. While forging communication links across borders, making business transactions easier and swinging the gates of the global village wide open, mobile phones have broken up marriages and landed families and long time friends in fatal fights.
Our over-reliance on modern telecommunication connectivity places us at the mercy of internet providers and outages capable of bringing sophisticated medical services, the international financial sector and entire populations to their knees at any given time.
The senseless rush, in recent times, towards a fully digitalised world is mind-boggling, as in a weird kind of way, it diminishes direct human interaction which is the tried, tested and proven way to secure families, communities, societies and life. There is good reason why God made Eve for Adam, places the lonely in families, takes us up if we are abandoned and instructs that we do not forsake the fellowship of the brethren.
This mission to move school, church and economies online, may have some obscure benefits, but it will ultimately hand the control of families, worship, global communication, wealth, health and resources to those who are determined to rule unelected, through a one-world government. It will also open up the channels for criminals to move mountains of digital money undetected across borders.
As governments push populations towards online transactions, by December this year, the total value of the Digital Payments market globally will reach or surpass US$11.55 trillion. Interestingly, this amount is not too far off from the total criminals rake in annually from the very same online source. According to a Cybersecurity Ventures report, the cost of cybercrime reached $8 trillion in 2023 — translating to over $250,000 per second — and is projected to rise to $10.5 trillion by 2025.
The fact that sophisticated cyberattacks involving malware, phishing, machine learning and artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency and more have placed the data and assets of corporations, states and individuals at constant and very high risk seems to be of little consequence or concern.
The frequent failures of ATM machines since the undeclared worldwide war on cash, underscore the fragility of the online operations. While technology promises to be faster, more efficient and groundbreaking in many ways, it leaves the traceable digital footprints of every user in its wake and this excites one-world advocates, governments, private data holdings and criminals alike.
Popular social media platforms deepen the user footprints of those who engage. These platforms are like an ever-growing cyber monster which feeds the egos and hype of entertainers, influencers of frolic and falsehoods, corrupt governments, oppressive conglomerates and international criminals, before trapping them all in a wicked collection of personal information harvested for future reference.
No one can offer any real protection of privacy online as there is a severe global shortage of cybersecurity professionals. The stakes are higher than ever as the cyber crime epidemic impacting businesses and states, is beyond bringing down organisations, it risks shaking public faith in such cherished ideals as democracy, capitalism and personal privacy.
Social media accentuate the fact that the global village is not a safe community of people of similar interests, beliefs and objectives. It is a hostile, God-forsaken, make-believe world built on deception, gender confusion, avatars, meta verses, bitcoins, digital wallets, purchasing properties on other planets and pseudo relationships with the unknown. The free flow of misinformation, especially by bots and automated sources diminishes trust in even the truth of God online. Digital Bibles and study blogs cannot be banked on for authenticity. Even sermons are artificially generated and delivered to unsuspecting congregations. No one can truly depend on the faceless, unverified online pastors, prophets, apostles, experts and sources that pop up at our fingertips.
We have arrived at a place where the artificial world is being given credence, even above the natural. We are at the cusp of trans humanism where large segments of humanity will join the artificial ranks, powered in part or whole by technology with Satan in the driver’s seat. Global organisations and their puppet governments are determined to engage rogue technology and online networks in their ultimate mission to eliminate God from the earth. These governments, especially in developing nations bow to international dictates and rush full speed ahead to establish fully digital economies, based on monetary promises.
Without the knowledge of the people they represent, politicians recently signed the United Nations cyber crime treaty, believing that they have the power to implement the clauses lock, stock and barrel without pushback from their populations.
More and more, governments are signing away the rights of nations in secret. Especially since the Covid plandemic, the public trust in politicians has plummeted as populations learn that despite the political power they wield, they are not God or of God. It is clear to the people that the glorified global one-world agenda is not theirs, not of God nor is it in their best interest. People also know now that their governments have a price, and it is quoted in foreign currency.
Even with the information highway at our fingertips, we seem to know less, trust less and are worse off than we were when we gathered as families to play board games and jacks in the living room or dandy shandy in the streets.
Advance of technology and the elevation of artificial intelligence have served to drive a wedge between families and communities and challenge our longstanding belief in the Sovereign God. It is time to face up and back up. The one-world revolution is unfolding in our lifetime, before our very eyes and it is not only being televised, it is being live streamed.