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as we talked about earlier, audry, i'm skeptical about the chip implanting scenario. the most likely way it would happen, i believe, would be if there was a epidemic of mass proportions that required everybody to submit to emergency health care measures. even then, it's just a really large task that i don't believe our top-heavy, ueber-bureaucratic government would be able to pull off if they wanted to. of course, many would have raised the same objection in response to speculation some 4 years ago that we'd invade iraq, so never underestimate the gov't's ability to ignore the costs of an action and do it anyway.

if the issue here is privacy, well, most of us are already highly trackable. credit cards, for example (which may be getting some sort of rfid according to an npr story i heard). if you're the type to assume the worse of the government, i'd look at any technology that centralizes information - don't just focus on the sexy chip implants. keeping people focused on one devil is a great way to slide in another one just as bad.

at the end of the day, the problem is not rfid chips; it's people not paying attention. the gov't has already far overstepped the bounds originally placed upon it. if people aren't convinced now that centralized authority is the problem, they're simply not going to be more convinced when the next enabling disaster comes along.

if you really want to "unplug from the matrix", do so in your head and heart. it is there that our "masters" exercise the greatest control - our own sense of insecurity, incompleteness, lack of trust of self, etc. remember these words of étienne de la boétie in the discourse on voluntary servitude:

obviously there is no need of fighting to overcome this single tyrant, for he is automatically defeated if the country refuses consent to its own enslavement: it is not necessary to deprive him of anything, but simply to give him nothing; there is no need that the country make an effort to do anything for itself provided it does nothing against itself. it is therefore the inhabitants themselves who permit, or, rather, bring about, their own subjection, since by ceasing to submit they would put an end to their servitude. amazing how spiritual that is; and yet, it's the basis of every successful revolt - both peaceful and violent - against authority in history.