Cell phones as 'Mark of the Beast'; Today's inconvenience is tomorrow's denial of participatoin.

The paranoid speak of microchips and 'the mark of the beast.'

It turns out it's just your cellphone.  This has happened to me over the past couple of days:

My phone broke, and I was unable to get a new one immediately.  Shortly thereafter, I was banned from Facebook making it difficult to contact many, and impossible to contact most.  Because of the requirement of a phone number, I can't simply sign up for a new account, and while this is ostensibly done to 'prevent abuse of the overly sensitive,' it's really just a way to enable a more-accurate surveillance state.  Of course I was banned for 'being mean' by simply stating a truth, but that's really what this is about, isn't it?

Today, I was spontaneously logged out of my Gmail account, and when I logged back in, it triggered 2-factor authentication and sent a code to my phone...which doesn't work.  The reason I was logging into my Gmail account was to reset my Amazon password so that I could make a purchase, but being locked out of my Gmail, I am unable to do so.

Was every transaction in the pre-cellphone-era fraudulent? Why do we act as though every interaction is fraught with peril when the end result isn't the end of criminality but a drastic uptick in personal inconvenience?

Is this the result of an ever-expanding system of credit and banking that must guarantee it's own supremacy, and for which you must be tracked and monitored?  If so, how do we dismantle it?

We all need to clean this collective room.  There are rats in the walls.  Big ones.