The future is digital

The time has finally come: The German government has decided to sell us the next step toward digitalized unfreedom as a "make-everyday life easier." The E-ID or EUDI Wallet is coming: a digital wallet for smartphones. Free, of course, secure, convenient, and practical. And incidentally, the perfect tool for centralized control, identification, and management of the slave plantation. What used to be called ID checks is now celebrated as "digital inclusion."

In the future, no physical document will be required – no ID card, no card, no reader. Just your smartphone. Or rather: the digital twin of you, which is created, stored, managed, and blocked if necessary. Anyone who wants to rent an apartment, open an account, sign a cell phone contract, go to the cinema, or simply participate in social life must identify themselves. The prerequisite: The app is up to date, the battery is charged – and you have behaved in accordance with the system.

Nancy Faeser, the smile of the new administrative morality, calls it "fast, secure, and uncomplicated." But in reality, that means you're only as free as your smartphone's battery level—or as the regime, in combination with algorithmic evaluation, allows. Real progress, then—if you consider submission a comfort.

While your ID card can't be revoked without further ado today, in the future, digital access to society will be deactivated at any time and in real time. All it takes is a suspicion, a misconduct, one thought too many – and you're simply offline, excluded, deleted.

The EUDI wallet is, of course, supposed to meet the "highest security standards" – whatever that might mean when it comes from the regime. Safe for whom? For the people or for those who want to control them? There are plenty of examples: movement data from electric cars, tax data in the cloud, or privacy in social networks, which secret services have long since monitored. Reassuring, isn't it?

And so that not only the regime, but also corporate structures, foundations, and so-called research institutions gain access to your identity, private providers are now also allowed to develop their own wallets. Completely democratic, of course – everyone can play along, as long as they're in line. They call it freedom of choice. In reality, it's the illusion of choosing between different surveillance systems that stem from the same source.

The EU makes it possible: The eIDAS regulation obliges all member states to offer at least one digital identity wallet by 2027. A requirement is labeled as progress, while the digital ankle bracelet is seen as a ticket to a new life.

The supposedly open architecture, the participation, the online consultation hours – all of this serves only as a facade. Because genuine participation will only be desired as long as it aligns with the regime's narrative. Criticism will be sanctioned, "conspiracy facts" will result in point deductions – and at some point, the digital arm of the law will come and pick you up right from your home. Friendly, firm, with quartz sand gloves and a service weapon.

The truth that isn't discussed is the only one that matters: the truth of the system. Those who don't digitally identify themselves lose their right to participate in public life. No traffic, no trade, no work, no housing. The smartphone becomes the key—and simultaneously the lock.

Anyone who refuses is not integrated. Not in compliance with the law. No longer provided for.

The EUDI wallet isn't a practical tool – it's the technological pretext for a system change. For a digitalized feudalism hidden behind the guise of democracy. And while we're promised that everything will remain voluntary, in the background everything has long since become mandatory – through digital blackmail via access logic – in other words, coercion!

Anyone without a digital identity is considered suspicious. Anyone who doesn't fit in is excluded. And anyone who wants to help is punished. The smart door recognizes your face, your social profile – and decides whether you can come in today or stay out.

An era of algorithmic obedience is beginning. A world in which humans are reduced to functions. And we, who allow this, have it in our hands – for now.

The question is no longer: Are you joining in?
The question is: What are you doing to make it stop?