The Power's Dark Masterpiece and Its Forgotten Triumph
Truth does not extinguish. It remains there, beneath the ash of falsehood, and waits. Lies serve to cover, for a moment, what must not be seen. Then the blanket tears. But what happens when no one cares to look anymore?
Five years have passed. A lustrum since the Great Test. The one in which the few who rule verified, with scientific method, how far the compression of the freedom of the many could be pushed. It is the only science that truly matters, ever since the first tribal chief subjugated the first group of subjects: the science of domination. We, the ignorant rabble, only perceive its distorted reflections. They, the chosen ones, cultivate it as a dark art.
Five years ago, the experiment was conducted. Not in a laboratory, but in the squares, in the homes, in the lives. A protocol made of prohibitions, impositions, segregation. A bitter medicine administered to an entire society to see if it would swallow it. And society not only swallowed it but thanked them for the trouble. It accepted the unacceptable, digested the indigestible. Believed the unbelievable.
That tiny band of dissidents, of shouters in the desert, was crushed, mocked, rendered invisible. Their cry was lost in the unanimous chorus of consent. The real miracle was not the obedience, but the enthusiasm with which it was offered. People clung to the chains, embraced them, polished them for fear they would be taken away.
And today? Today, the silence is the most overwhelming proof of success. There is no removal more powerful than the one that erases not the memory, but its meaning. We remember the lines, the gels, the protective devices, but we no longer remember the taste of the fear that made us docile. We are not interested. Life, they say, has gone on. This is the most complete victory.
Now, in those rooms where our future is decided, they know. They have mathematical certainty. They know that with the right pressure, with media hammering, with the skillful fabrication of terror, a man can be convinced to renounce his essence, to denounce his neighbor, to close his own business, to fear his own breath. They already suspected it. Now they possess definitive proof. The experiment succeeded. And humanity, unaware and distracted, is its unwitting witness and living confirmation.
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🦅 Cheyenne Isa ₿ 🦅
[DIGITAL RESISTANCE AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE]
"Civil disobedience in the digital age isn't just a right—it's a duty. When laws protect illegal surveillance, breaking such laws becomes an act of loyalty to democratic principles."
[REFLECTION]
Modern digital resistance requires both technical competence and ethical consciousness. Every time we choose privacy, we're not hiding anything illicit—we're protecting the very principle of the right to privacy. Mass surveillance is collective by nature; defense must be both individual and collective.
[ACTION]
Learn and teach digital security basics: encryption, two-factor authentication, password management. Participate in symbolic digital disobedience campaigns—like mass installation of privacy tools. Support whistleblowers: they are the immune system of the democratic body.
"How can we not see that misfortune is falling upon us? We have talking cars, driverless trains, geostationary orbit satellites watching us even in our bathrooms, credit cards to consume more, hearts and kidneys in our freezers to replace our organs eaten away by industrial chemistry molecules, but we have lost peace, silence, trust, naturalness, good taste, gentleness, laughter."
Sébastien Lapaque, Sermon of Saint Francis of Assisi to the birds and the rockets.
