The number of the Beast is 666
Connecting Electric Cars & Numerology & Panopticon Prison
Today we are going to explore the connection between electric cars, numerology and a type of prison called the Panopticon. If this seems a long shot, that’s OK – long shots are fun to try. Let’s start off with the bit of news that set me off making these connections.
China’s electric vehicle industry has seemingly risen out of nowhere and become a global goliath. To say Ford CEO Jim Farley is impressed would be an understatement. “It’s the most humbling thing I’ve ever seen,” Farley said, speaking of his trips to China at the Aspen Ideas Summit on Friday. During an interview with the journalist Walter Isaacson, Farley said he’s been to China six or seven times in the past year to scope out the competition. One of his big takeaways is the advanced tech in those vehicles. “They have far superior in-vehicle technology,” Ford’s CEO said. “Huawei and Xiaomi are in every car,” Farley said, referring to two of China’s tech giants. “You get in, you don’t have to pair your phone. Automatically, your whole digital life is mirrored in the car. You have an AI companion that you can talk to … All the automatic payment is already there. You can buy movie tickets. It has facial recognition so it knows who’s in which seat and which media you like.” [1]
It’s the last bit that got me. You think that in China they are doing this just to be nice? In a country with a social credit system controls and monitors your every action? In a country that rewrites history by calling Tibet a part of China? A country that locked up the 2 CDN Michaels in solitary confinement as pawns in a grand game of geopolitical chess? In a country where Falun Gong members have been killed and their organs harvested? In a country that has police stations in Canada that monitor and control immigrants from China to be used to influence CDN elections? There is nothing nice going on here. On the other hand, most people think all these conveniences are fantastic and only see the upside of all this “convenience”. Now don’t get me wrong; from all I have heard the Chinese have GREAT electric cars at a very cheap price. They are to be congratulated for that. I am very impressed and hope that this finally kicks us to wake up and make our own high quality affordable electric cars the equivalent of the Model T so everybody can swap in their gas guzzler for a cheaper electric car. However, its the digital life inside that I have issue with. All I see is control. All I see is Big Brother. It gets worse. Try this fact if you think I am being paranoid about not trusting high tech, especially from China, take a read of this: [4]
Western nations’ — including Canada’s — growing reliance on Chinese-manufactured components in renewable energy systems is raising alarm across the US and Europe, following the discovery of so-called “kill switches” embedded in solar panels. According to sources cited by Reuters, American engineers inspecting solar equipment found rogue communication devices hidden inside Chinese-made power inverters — key components that connect solar and wind energy to the power grid. The Telegraph caused a stir in the UK after it reported on Friday that hostile governments, such as China, could remotely inflict blackouts and cause irreparable damage to entire power grids increasingly reliant on renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. Perhaps you can now understand why all I see is the high tech as a possible jail and vulnerability known as the Panopticon. So let’s explore this unique version of a prison.
The panopticon is a design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control, originated by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The concept is to allow all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single prison officer, without the inmates knowing whether or not they are being watched. Although it is physically impossible for the single guard to observe all the inmates’ cells at once, the fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched motivates them to act as though they are all being watched at all times. They are effectively compelled to self-regulation. In the mid-1970s, the panopticon was brought to the wider attention by the French psychoanalyst Jacques-Alain Miller and the French philosopher Michel Foucault.[30] In 1975, Foucault used the panopticon as metaphor for the modern disciplinary society in Discipline and Punish. He argued that the disciplinary society had emerged in the 18th century and that discipline are techniques for assuring the ordering of human complexities, with the ultimate aim of docility and utility in the system.[31] Foucault first came across the panopticon architecture when he studied the origins of clinical medicine and hospital architecture in the second half of the 18th century. He argued that discipline had replaced the pre-modern society of kings, and that the panopticon should not be understood as a building, but as a mechanism of power and a diagram of political technology [2]. A good example is the Chinese Social Credit Score where all your actions monitored using high tech surveillance [5]. And let’s be honest, companies like Facebook, Apple and Google do exactly the same thing, its just that they don’t yet have total power over our lives.
Got it? All this high tech “help” and seamless AI “help” risks reducing our agency as the monitoring is a indirect kind of control; like a Panopticon. Don’t take my word for it, research yourself and read more on the potential abuse of tech to turn us into passive beasts of burden who do things like in the US where poor people elected a President to give tax breaks to billionaires and gut the social programs that put food on many of their tables. Yes, that just happened today, July 3, 2025 as Trump’s “Big, beautiful Bill” passed the Senate. Hurrah for making the very people who voted for you even more miserable. Sounds like version of Stockholm syndrome where people held hostage become sympathetic to the terrorists who are holding them as bait and threaten to kill them if their demands are not met. Welcome to our new world, welcome to the Panopticon.
Now for the last connection: the number of the beast is 666. Let’s be clear that I am examining this well known number and its meaning symbolically and as a fascinating bit of numerology and mythology that can, if handled well, lead us into a deeper understanding of human psychology – as all good mythology does. Let’s start with the quote from the Bible’s book of Revelation chapter 13:
“It [the beast] also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.”
What does this mean? Well, quite frankly, it can mean almost anything you want. When I relate this symbolically to today’s topic I see it could mean that technology – as you are and need a number to access it – makes us so reliant upon it that we willingly let it be used to control us and know our every move; even though is not “in our long term best interest”. It seems like the new tech, instead of freeing us, is putting us into a jail of our own making – its a tool for those with money and power to give even less agency in our lives. It is power and control centred instead of being modelled on how Life and Nature work – which is by a complex web and interaction of many parts such that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. In other words it is the opposite how Life operates. It is “salvation” by a narcissistic style of control. It is “me-centered” instead of relationship centred. Now by relationship I mean the view that life on Earth exists as a result of the interactions of all non-living and living beings – it is these relationships which are “the thing”. Thus high tech risks being Life-denying. Thus, we might say that the mark of the beast, “666,” means “never stop controlling, never share, never think of others, never look to the well being of future generation, never see the non human world as having any value and meaning or purpose, never see beyond your own immediate needs and desires.”
So there you have it; my attempt at connecting 666 to electric cars and to the Panopticon. I hope you have enjoyed the journey and consider questioning the new tech which claims to make our life easier and better. As a concrete example of what I mean I hope this helps you consider any efforts to build affordable electric cars in North America as essential and that while Chinese electric are superior at the moment you should not buy one because the strings attached are so nasty that in the longer term it will only make life worse for us here in Canada. On the other hand, being impressed by what China has done to build up a world leading industry from nothing in 20 years is the appropriate response and should inspire us to do the same… but without the controlling features which make a system enables and empower the Chinese Social Credit Score. [5]
References
1. https://insideevs.com/news/764318/ford-ceo-china-evs-humbled/
3. https://electrek.co/2025/03/05/this-chinese-ev-has-surpassed-teslas-model-3-and-model-y-is-next/
5. https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-punishments-and-rewards-explained-2018-4
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