How Utah Is Giving Up on Freedom and Embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Jason and Alexia Preston

American Thought Leaders

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

"You may be surprised what's happening in your backyard if you start peeling back the layers."

Alexia and Jason Preston are hosts of the Utah-based podcast, “We Are The People.” They’ve been exploring how institutions like the Chinese Communist Party, the World Economic Forum, and the United Nations have been influencing local politicians and policy for decades.

"It's really not to see what people want. It's how to get the programs they want passed through, so then they can bring it to legislators and say, ‘Well, 98 percent of the community wants walkable communities, so they want smart cities.’ So, they're shifting perspective in that way and shaping perspective," says Ms. Preston. "You're seeing programs roll out in a way that it is really testing the public to see just how much will be allowed to roll out in Utah."

"We need to stop. We need to look at where we're heading as a nation, where we're heading as states," says Mr. Preston. "Is this technology that can be used for good or bad—is this going to lead our children towards a safer future? Or is this potentially going to lead them to a future like China?"

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0:00.0	It's said that Utah is the birthplace of the fourth industrial revolution.
0:04.4	The fourth industrial revolution was coined by Klaus Schwad.
0:07.0	So you have this technocratic authoritarian government stepping in with
0:11.2	programs such as Smart Cities.
0:13.3	Alexa and Jason Preston are hosts of the Utah-based podcast We Are the People.
0:18.4	They've been exploring how institutions like the Chinese Communist Party,
0:22.1	the World Economic Forum, and the United Nations have been influencing
0:26.4	local politicians and policy for decades.
0:29.2	You're seeing programs roll out, testing the public to see just how much
0:33.4	we'll be allowed to roll out in Utah.
0:35.8	We need to stop. We need to look at, is this technology that could be used for
0:40.0	good or bad going to lead our children towards a safer future or a future like
0:44.4	China? This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanyi Kellek.
0:50.8	Alexa and Jason Preston, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.
0:55.2	It's great to be here with you, Yann. It's very good to be here. Thank you.
0:59.0	Well, I don't talk much on the show about Utah, and when you contacted me,
1:05.9	I got very, very interested because you typically think of Utah as a very
1:11.2	conservative state. You don't think of it as a place
1:14.6	where there's a lot of experimentation with things like 15-minute cities or
1:19.3	digital ID or other, let's say, modern innovations that comport with a more
1:26.9	top-down vision for the world. You guys have been in the thick of it
1:31.9	looking at this. So why don't we start Alexa? What's going on?
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