Independent journalist Efrat Fenigson warns that linking a digital ID to programmable central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) would give the government absolute totalitarian control:
“If you have a digital ID… your identity is revealed to the state for almost any action that you take, especially online actions.”
“They are able to tell which websites you went to, what did you purchase… your opinions.”
“They can use AI to… analyse, quickly, large sums of data and say… all the people that are looking at permaculture in order to avoid the state control over food—I’m just giving an example off the top of my head—let’s go after them.”
“And then let’s give them a quota—of their CBDC—of how much they can use to buy fertilisers, for example, because they’re going to grow their own food and we don’t want them to do that. We want them to buy the industrial food in the supermarket.” “There are so many examples you can make up.”
In this podcast with Tim Allen, Efrat also talks personal growth and resilience, touching on microdosing, psychedelics, spirituality, and life as a digital nomad. Efrat speaks candidly about Israel, reflecting on propaganda, resistance, and her own choice to leave the country and embrace a new way of living. She stresses the need for hope, creativity, and building parallel systems that allow individuals and communities to thrive beyond centralized control — blending the personal with the political, the digital with the spiritual, and offering a vision of freer futures.
