The Guy Fawkes mask has embodied a modern symbol of internet anonymity and resistance to totalitarian regimes, however, all is not as it seems.

In this short excerpt, I'll outline Fawkes within his historical context, who embodied someone who inverted morality, promoted global totalitarianism and failed to use encryption.

Not exactly a fitting mascot for cypherpunks.

The mask, popularized by Alan Moore's V For Vendetta, (a corruption on the WWII mantra of V for Victory), is worn by the protagonist V who blows up Parliament (as the historic Fawkes sought to) and enables the people to overthrow a "Christian" totalitarian state.

Alan Moore is an admirer of Crowley's Thelema Satanic religion and believes his own work to be a type of magic infused with the serpentine spirit of Glycon. He has also claimed to have interfaced with the demon Asmodeus, which explains why his "art" is so divorced from sanity and promotes historical fiction.

I will still take a lot of his ideas (Crowley), a lot of his thinking and work it into my own scheme of things.

In Moore's twisted worldview (and in the "magic" of V for Vendetta) he posits Satanism as the means to freedom and prosperity, while Christianity (or at least a cringe caricature of it) as the path towards totalitarianism.

But how is such a thesis currently working out for the UK, Mr. Moore? The influence of Christianity in contemporary Britain is at a historic low and totalitarianism is at an all time high, funny how that works.

Unfortunately, many unsuspecting victims have fallen foul of this sorcerer's ruse.

Shakespeare's Macbeth was written (1607) as a means to bring public attention to the Gunpowder Plot (1605) against Parliament and the devilry behind Jesuit plans of regicide through the use of their doctrine of Equivocation (a doctrine that states lies are permitted to promote the Roman religion).

The first act of the play opens with a beguiling thought of murder and rebellion planted into the mind of Macbeth who has been bewitched by three feminists.

These three haggard witches pontificate the unholy doctrine that "fair is foul and foul is fair", the zeitgeist of post-modernity.

Macbeth, possessed with this idea, assassinates the king, becomes mad, and is ultimately destroyed.

A cautionary tale.

A target had been placed on the Protestant monarchy ever since Pope Pius V issued the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis on the 25th February 1570, excommunicating Queen Elizabeth and effectively calling for Roman Catholics to rebel against her rule and assassinate her.

The Society of Jesus (Jesuits), a militant arm of the Roman Catholic Church, was going to see independent Britain brought back under the subjection of Rome, the globalist super state of the time, even if it meant gunpowder, treason and plot.

John Gerard was the Jesuit priest who was going to see this through with the help of accomplices, which included Guy Fawkes. Yes, Guy Fawkes was a Jesuit henchman seeking to promote Roman globalism and destroy British independence which promoted freedom and greater religious tolerance. Those wearing and promoting the Fawkes mask are, in fact, embodying an emblem of the globalist technocratic super state of its day.

The Jesuits would have very much been like certain centralised intelligence agencies of today, (read Confessions of An Economic Hitman if you want to know their modus operandi), using lies and deception to promote their political agenda.

The Jesuit doctrine of Equivocation permitted this, alongside their adopted philosophy of pragmatism (ends justify the means), likewise embraced by communists that wrought havoc on the world (of whom South American Jesuit priests partnered with in the 70s, see The Jesuits by Malachi Martin).

Ironically for cypherpunks garnishing the Fawkes mask, it was a lack of encrypted communications which foiled the Gunpowder Plot.

The Monteagle Letter, which was not encrypted and sent in plain text, warned fellow Roman Catholics in the Privy Council of the Gunpowder Plot (yes, some Roman Catholics held positions of power in Protestant Britain due to their religious tolerance, as long as they were not seditious). The famous line highlighting the danger to Robert Cecil's intelligence apparatus:

...they shall receive a terrible blow this Parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them.

V for Vendetta and the Fawkes mask is a form of social engineering designed to further a technocratic super surveillance state.

Through the inversion of morality, a condition of low moral standing can be manufactured in the populations who must be controlled with pleasure/pain operant techniques with the use of technology.

Notice how ID verification, and soon digital ID, will be required to access pornography in the UK. Some will willingly accept this digital tyranny to continue to satiate their digital addictions.

This will then be used on social media and video games which stimulate similar parts of the brain to manufacture psychological dependence on technology.

The mask is therefore not a fitting symbol of contemporary technocratic resistance and should be abandoned.