Biden's opinion on biometrics was "to kill them all."

My annual Christmas Movie Marathon continues, and I just finished Total Recall. I've always enjoyed this movie, and I'm sure it's not uncommon among you all for a movie to melt away our focus on current events. I'm not sure what it is about Total Recall that does it for me. I'm sure it's a combination of many things, but I think there's one in particular I'd like to point out.<br><br>A couple of scenes stick out to me, and I'll explain them, but the short of it is that the president of the United States apparently, openly specializes in biometrics. If you've seen the movie, you'll know the story centers around the sector of Mars being a consistent source of oxygen for the residents, and a very large corporation with its own security force presides over it, and the leader of the corporation controls the sector. It has been notoriously difficult to be aware of the gas level on Mars, as the technology has never come close to the sci-fi technologies of Star Trek or other movies of a similar caliber. However, I once heard on a podcast that thinks Elon Musk is Jesus Christ, that he's working on a device that not only uses biometric technology to track the gas levels on Mars, but uses it to monitor the gas levels in your *body*.<br><br>This is a great example my theory that governments don't tell us anything. Before I had even started my Christmas Movie Marathon, I googled the new project from Musk himself, and I got 41 results. All I found out about it was that Musk is very proud about this one, and that it's based on some technology that's only available in certain parts of the world. It's the size of a human finger, and when implanted, it will track gas levels inside of your body. It's not just for Mars, but something he wants to bring to Earth as well. One guy posted a picture of his device. All you see is the finger-shaped implant that he says he implanted himself.<br><br>I'm sure you're all aware by now that everyone's personal biometric information is in the system, whether you've put it there yourself by purchasing a fitness tracker, getting an implant chip, or just having a scan at the dentist, there's definitely something going on with our biometrics. I've always thought that there are ways to track our identity with more precision than our social security number, which I believe is what the government uses to track our transactions, but not our location. How do we know that our social security numbers aren't used to decode biometric data that tracks our location. There's a lot of talk about people being microchipped, but what if that isn't the case at all. What if we've been microchipped by our biometric information alone?<br><br>The reason I bring this up, in the context of Total Recall, is that this is an accurate way to describe what happens when Quaid (the main character of the movie) goes to a company called ReKall, which is an organization that makes "false memories" of vacations people can't really afford. The employees implant a device in people's heads that makes them believe they went on a vacation, but in reality, it's just a simulation. The device implants false memories of events that never happened, which is why they call them "false memories." During the process of implanting the device, the workers explicitly tell the customers that the device is collecting their biometric information. They have to ask the customers questions about what kind of dream vacation they want to have, and they set the device, which looks like a helmet, on the customers' heads, and they warn them, "If you're secretly working for the resistance, we'll know about it." There's something about the biometrics that might be tracking what we think, or at least, what we believe, and I don't know if you're all aware, but there's a lot in the news about the government tracking people with mental illnesses.<br><br>There's a lot to say about the movie, and I encourage you to watch it and see if you can find anything else. I'm not sure if this speaks to anyone else, but the way the movie shifts from what's real and what isn't is very confusing. The main plot point is that Quaid goes to ReKall to get a false memory of a vacation to Mars, but then it turns out that Quaid's memories are fake, and he's actually the leader of the resistance on Mars, who the governor (the leader of the corporation the controls Mars) wants to kill. The governor then kills "Quaid" and sends him to Earth, and that's where the movie starts. But then, when Quaid goes to ReKall, he finds out that he's actually the leader of the resistance, and the whole memory of him living on Earth as "Douglas Quaid" was fake. Now that he remembers who he is, he has to go back to Mars to be the leader of the resistance and defeat the governor.<br><br>So, in essence, the plot of the movie is Quaid's confusion between what's real and what's not. The main plot point is that Quaid's memories are unclear, and he has to figure out what's real and what's not. This is also what I believe the government is doing to us. I believe that the government has control over our memories, and is tricking us into believing what they want us to believe. You probably know that the government has always done this. They'll tell us a story to explain why they have to do something new, and then they'll just do it, with no intention of doing the right thing, but they just did it because they said they wanted to do it, and we believed them. This is known as "gaslighting," and it's been done since the dawn of humanity itself. The government will lie to us, and they know that we'll believe them, because they don't want to be called "liars" and be shamed by us. But I believe that the government is doing more than just gaslighting us. I believe that they're using biometrics to actually manipulate our thoughts.<br><br>I've found several examples of this in the movie. In the beginning of the movie, when Quaid goes to ReKall, the workers ask him questions about what he wants his false memories to be. They give him a pill, and then they attach the helmet to his head. Then, one of the workers says, "This device collects your biometric information. It knows what your brain is thinking." I'm not sure if any of you have ever worked in a hospital or been in a situation where your biometric information was tracked, but it seems to me that biometrics can be used to track what we're thinking about. It's kind of like a polygraph test, but it's not just asking you questions, it's actually monitoring what's in your brain. The device makes Quaid believe he's on Mars, but then, all of a sudden, it stops working. Before it stops working, the worker that was talking to Quaid suddenly stops and says, "Wait a minute," and then he looks at one of his colleagues, points at Quaid, and says, "His real memories are overriding his false memories." Then, the device explodes, and it blows Quaid's cover.<br><br>But the story doesn't end there. One of the workers is actually part of the resistance, and he's the one who programmed the device to blow. But then, the governor finds out, and he tells them that this device is not just a "false memory device," but it's actually the exact opposite, and it's a "memory retrieval device." So, even though ReKall was just a company that made people believe they went on a vacation, it was actually a government organization that designed these devices to track people's real memories and figure out if they're terrorists. So, if the device didn't work, that means that the memories it was collecting weren't the right ones, and the person it was tracking was a bad guy.<br><br>This was almost exactly what was happening with the NSA scandal in the early 2000s. Remember how it was found out that the NSA had been collecting people's personal phone records, emails, and any other digital communication? Well, I think something even more sinister is going on than just monitoring email and social media. I think that the government collects our biometric information to monitor our thoughts, and track our memories. Whether this is through a device, or through a chip, or through some sort of energy field, I don't know, but I think they're doing something else than just tracking our online activity.<br><br>Did you know that the government can track your online activity even after you delete it? Just ask anyone who's looking at child porn. They'll find you. But what about the stuff that isn't online? Do they know that too? I don't know if you've seen any other movies like Total Recall, but there's a lot of movies and TV shows out there that explore similar themes, and they all seem to suggest the same thing: that biometrics are being used to track our thoughts and memories. I think there's something going on in the government that we don't know about, and that's what I'd like to call "false memories."<br><br>Going back to the movie, there's a lot that sticks out to me about how Quaid's false memories are constructed. When he first goes to ReKall, the employees are very strict about not giving too much information about the device. They just tell him that it's "a machine that will make you believe you're on Mars." They also don't tell him how long the process will take. They don't even want to give him any details about the machine itself. This seems very odd to me. How can you expect customers to be willing to pay hundreds