It's amazing, wonderful, and frightening how everything in your life is interconnected nowadays. When you favorite a video on YouTube (signed in with your Google account, of course) it posts automatically to your Facebook page. Hell, if I wanted I could tell this website to update my Facebook when I post a new blog. But my blogs aren't very interesting and I have more respect for those on my friends list than that.
That doesn't even scratch the surface though. The really important stuff is the digitizing of all your life's worth. The monetary type stuff, the crap everybody tells you not to be concerned about. Yes, your credit score, your driving record, your criminal record, your shoe size and your college degree. It's all part of a big profile that everyyybody with a little "permission" can look at before they decide to hire you, fire you, do business with you, educate you, treat you, arrest you, etc.
I've been in debt since I was 18. Every year it stacks up a little higher. Lose a job here, run up a credit card there. Break a bone here, ditch a collection agency there. Whatever, it's life shit. I can live around it. But for how long? What I fear most is the day they "chip" all of us. No more cash, no more cards, no more wallets, just a forearm with a little microchip in it. The day I walk up to the cashier for a pack of smokes, scan my forearm and get denied because I didn't pay my cellphone bill that month is the day I fucking quit.
This is meant to put a little worm of thought into your heads. Don't take it too seriously, because my interpretation is not literal. But don't immediately shrug it off, either. If you're "in", you're in. If you're "out", you're out forever. Once you get in the pit there is nowhere to go but down.
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