The Darkness

Late December 2025. Look around. The institutions our grandparents trusted have been hollowed from within. Universities that once pursued truth and enlightenment - teaching how to think - now enforce acceptable orthodoxy - what to think. Media that once held power to account now curates their narrative like the Ministry of Enlightenment reborn. Churches that once spoke prophetically and for all their flaws, set out immutable truth and moral certainty, now mumble approved platitudes. Corporations whose remit was to sell goods and services in the furtherance of their shareholders’ economic interests now join the policing of thought, redirect capital, and demand conformity as condition of employment. The machinery of democracy continues to celebrate the theatre of electoral choice, but in fact all any party sells is a flavour of dependency. Elections are held, votes counted (not always faithfully), governments are formed using this pretence of democratic legitimacy, but its all performative: the permanent administrative state implements the same programme regardless of who wins, they only question is how far they will move and how fast toward the total subjugation of the nation to the State, At best, the people we elect are renters. The bureaucracy owns the building and chooses which rooms they may enter. Trust has collapsed. Not in one institution but in all of them, simultaneously. Surveys measure what anyone can feel: a civilisation that no longer believes its own story. In the last 8- years we have set aside God and replaced Him with the State and in so doing have hollowed our souls and sold out our children. The young cannot afford homes. They delay marriage, delay children, delay life itself while inflation silently steals their stored labour and debt mortgages their future. Dependency deepens - by design, because a population that cannot survive without institutional support cannot challenge institutional power. Who, when reduced to dependency, won’t vote for more illusory comfort in their cell? Atomisation spreads. Towns die as its children seek work in the cities. Dehumanising, collapsing cities where our humanity and connection to nature and one another die. We have a loneliness epidemic. Screens replace faces. Algorithms feed outrage because outrage engages. Common ground fractures into a thousand warring tribes, each certain the others are evil, none noticing who benefits from the division. Beneath it all, a quiet despair. The sense that something has been taken, some possibility, some freedom, some future, and that the taking is complete. The sense that we work harder, longer, more efficiently than any people in history, yet have less. Less purpose. Less capacity to provide for our families. We are without hope. The Long March through the institutions has reached its destination. The gatekeepers control every gate. The keys of knowledge are hidden. This is the darkness. This is the crucible for what must come next.

The Light

Yet into this darkness, tonight more than most, comes light. Families gather, coming together from near and far. Candles flicker in church windows. Children sleep with impossible anticipation. Across the world, in countless languages, the story is told of Christmas. Of hope. Mid winter Celtic community feast We have celebrated midwinter for as long as we have been human. Long before Christianity, our ancestors gathered at the darkest point of the year, when the days were shortest and the nights longest. We feasted, we shared the warmth of the fire and our hearts. We exchanged gifts of love and celebrated our shared bonds that had seen us through the dark days of winter and would give us the strength to welcome the spring and renewal of life. The Romans had their Saturnalia. The Norse had Yule. The Celts marked the solstice. Every culture that has endured winter has found reason to celebrate its turning point, to renew the ties that bind and see us through to the new year. Celebrating the Feast of St. Nicolas at Küssnacht am Rigi This is not coincidence. It is wisdom encoded in tradition. When resources are scarce and the cold bites deepest, we gather with those we love. We share what we have. We remind ourselves that light returns, that spring follows winter, that death is not the final word. Christianity did not abolish these celebrations. It transformed them. The birth of Christ did not happen in mid-winter, but the feast of it was fixed to this season because the deeper truth was already there, waiting: that light enters the world in darkness, that hope is born in despair, that the divine comes not in power but in vulnerability. Such vulnerability. God made flesh, but not as a descendant King, an all powerful conqueror. The Creator of the universe entered His creation not as helpless infant, dependent on a mother’s breast, wrapped in cloths, laid in a feeding trough in a stable. Consider to whom He was born. Not to priests. Not to royalty. Not to the learned or the powerful. He came to a carpenter and a young woman from Nazareth, a village so insignificant that Nathanael would later ask, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”1 Ordinary people. Working people. People who would never be admitted to the inner courts of the Temple, who could not afford the finest sacrifices, who stood outside the system of religious power. Consider where He was born. Not in Jerusalem, the seat of religious and political authority. Not in a palace, where one might think a King would be born, where the powers of religion, politics and money coalesced. Not in the Temple, where the priests held court and controlled access to God and His teachings. He was born in a stable, among animals, in straw—the lowest circumstances imaginable. The inns, so the story goes, were full; the machinery of empire demanded its census, its registration, its counting, even as a mother laboured. And when she delivered, there was no room for them among respectable people. This was not accident. This was announcement. The entire story is deliberate and resonant. The divine bypassed every intermediary. God did not arrive through the Temple system. The priests were not consulted. The powerful were not informed, except Herod, who tried to murder Him. The first witnesses were shepherds, among the lowest in Jewish society, living in fields with their flocks, ritually unclean, excluded from Temple worship. All rich and purposeful symbolism. To them, to the excluded, to the unclean, to those who could not pass through the gatekeepers to God and were subject to the earthly power of others, the angels appeared. “Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.”2 To all people. Not to the licensed. Not to the approved. Not to those who had paid their way through the toll gates. To all people. The humble birth to humble parents in humble circumstances prefigured everything He would teach. The Kingdom of God does not come through intermediaries. Access to the divine is not licensed by gatekeepers. Truth is not hidden behind institutional walls. The last shall be first. The lowly shall be exalted. The toll gates shall be torn down. Tonight, we set aside the weight of the world. We feast with those we love. We exchange gifts. We rest. But the teaching of that child, the God who became man, the words He spoke, the system He attacked. That teaching does not rest. It echoes still, two thousand years later, more urgent than ever. Amidst all our comfort and convenience - for we too often forget that the former is the 30 pieces of silver to our lives and the latter the velvet glove around our throats - we need the recall and hold onto those teachings more than ever.

Prologue: The Teaching

Two thousand years ago, a carpenter’s son from Nazareth spoke eleven words that still terrify every system of control ever devised: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” — John 8:32 This is not metaphor. This is mechanism. The most dangerous words to utter in 2,000 years in an era when we are told ‘You will Own Nothing and Be Happy (or else!)’ Truth. Verifiable, incorruptible, requiring no intermediary to validate it. Truth sets you free. Not “truth as interpreted by authorities.” Not “truth as licensed by institutions.” Truth itself. Know it, and you are free. The corollary is equally clear: if truth makes you free, then those who would enslave you must first control your access to truth. They must stand between you and reality. They must intermediate. Control truth and you control everything else. What you think is money. What you think is inflation. What you think is slavery, freedom, citizenship, sovereignty. Every great lie begins by controlling what truth is, proceeds by controlling who may speak it, and concludes by extinguishing any who challenge the edifice. Christ understood this. His entire ministry was an assault on intermediation. His message was of emancipation, freedom balanced against accountability and a direct relationship to God.

Part I: The System He Attacked

To understand why His message was revolutionary, you must understand what came before. The Temple in Jerusalem was not merely a place of worship. It was a monopoly on access to God. Forgiveness required sacrifice. Sacrifice required animals purchased from Temple-approved merchants, using Temple-approved currency, exchanged at Temple-approved rates. The money lenders in the courtyard were not incidental. They were the business model. Between every person and their Creator stood a toll gate. Christ drove them out with a whip. This was not a minor disturbance. This was an attack on the system itself. The Temple authorities understood immediately what He represented: the end of their monopoly. Within days, they had arranged His death. But the teaching survived.

Part II: What the Canonical Gospels Preserve

The Gospel of John records the core principle: truth itself, not institutional approval, not priestly mediation, sets you free. The synoptic gospels record the mechanism. At the moment of Christ’s death, the veil of the Temple, that heavy curtain separating the Holy of Holies from ordinary people, the physical manifestation of the gatekeepers’ power, tore in two from top to bottom.3 The symbolism is unmistakable. The barrier is destroyed. The intermediary is abolished. You stand before God directly, as a child before a father. Christ taught that no priest was required to speak to your Creator. No sacrifice was required to be forgiven. No payment was required to access the divine. The kingdom of God was not a distant place controlled by gatekeepers. It was already present, already accessible, already yours. “The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.” — Luke 17:20-21 Within you. Not within the Temple. Not within the institution. Not accessible only through licensed intermediaries. Within you.

Part III: What the Church Buried

Some early Christians understood the full implications of this teaching. Their writings were suppressed, buried, declared heretical. But the Egyptian desert preserved what the Church tried to destroy to preserve their white knuckled grip on absolute power. In 1945, at Nag Hammadi, a collection of texts was discovered that had been hidden in the fourth century, likely in response to Bishop Athanasius’s decree establishing which scriptures were permitted and which were forbidden.4 Among them was the Gospel of Thomas, containing 114 sayings attributed to Jesus. The Nag Hammadi Scrolls These sayings amplify and clarify what the canonical gospels preserve. On direct access, without intermediaries: “If those who lead you say to you, ‘See, the kingdom is in the sky,’ then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, ‘It is in the sea,’ then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known.” — Gospel of Thomas, Saying 33 On the gatekeepers who hide the keys: *“*The Pharisees and the scribes have taken the keys of knowledge and hidden them. They themselves have not entered, nor have they allowed to enter those who wish to.” — Gospel of Thomas, Saying 393 Not so very different from the Australian, EU and UK demands that the State should decide what social media you get to see… On freedom and responsibility as inseparable: “That which you have will save you if you bring it forth from yourselves. That which you do not have within you will kill you if you do not have it within you.” — Gospel of Thomas, Saying 703 On the divine present everywhere, no temple required: “Split a piece of wood, and I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there.” — Gospel of Thomas, Saying 773 On the kingdom already present, not institutionally mediated: *“*It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be a matter of saying ‘here it is’ or ‘there it is.’ Rather, the kingdom of the father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it.” — Gospel of Thomas, Saying 1135 The Gospel of Mary, discovered in 1896, goes further still. When Peter challenges Mary Magdalene’s authority to teach—demanding to know whether Jesus would “really speak with a woman without our knowledge”—Levi responds: “Peter, you have always been hot-tempered. Now I see you contending against the woman like the adversaries. But if the Savior made her worthy, who are you indeed to reject her?” — Gospel of Mary6 This is the question that destroys all institutional authority: If God made her worthy, who are you to reject her? Authority flows from direct relationship with the divine, not from institutional position. Truth validates itself; it does not require a licensing board. These texts were buried, burned, declared heretical. The Christianity that survived was the Christianity of intermediation. The toll gates went back up. The veil was re-sewn. Peter won. The institutions of power and control won. The gatekeepers won. This is the darkness from which Christ’s teaching was supposed to free us. And yet here we are. At the point of greatest material comfort in human history, and utterly lost. Today’s children have no hope. Tomorrow’s are the slaves that will pay for today’s illusions. The epidemic of quiet quitting is the proof.7 We exalt those who cry “You Only Live Once!” as they cram immediate gratification into the meaningless void. We mock the metaphorical old man who plants trees he will never see. We have inverted the very mechanism of civilisation: the willingness to sacrifice now for those who come after. Then we wonder why nothing works. Why trust has vanished. Why we have atomised into millions of isolated selves, each pursuing pleasure, none building anything that lasts.

Part IV: The First Corporatists

The institutional Church that emerged in the centuries after Christ’s death did not continue His mission. Like every centralised religious power that went before, it inverted it. Consider what the Church became: Monopoly on an essential service: Salvation itself, access to eternal life, could only be obtained through the Church. It, not God would decide on this Earth, not the next, whether you were worthy. Barriers to entry: Only ordained priests could perform sacraments. The licensing system was absolute. In fact, so lowly were the people in the Church’s estimation that it wasn’t until Vatican II that the priest faced the congregation - versus populum - as the facilitator of prayer rather than the traditional ad orientem, facing the same direction as the people as the prism through which they could enter commune with God. Vertical integration: Education, healthcare, record-keeping, marriage, death, all controlled by the same institution until they were taken over by the growing State. The same State that one day would decide that it was not enough to serve the Nation, it must now supplant God and subjugate the Nation to it. Just like the Church that went before it. Rent extraction: Tithes. Fees for every sacrament. And eventually, the sale of indulgences, literally selling forgiveness, selling reduced time in Purgatory, selling access to heaven. Suppression of competition: Heretics burned. Alternative texts destroyed. Vernacular Bibles banned. Centuries of war driven by the contest for control. Control of information: For over a thousand years, Scripture was kept in Latin, a language ordinary people could not read and did not speak. The ‘right’ schools taught it - in England the Grammar schools and ‘Public’ schools from which the acceptable leadership might be first anointed. When William Tyndale printed an English New Testament in 1526, he was hunted across Europe and eventually strangled and burned at the stake.8 His crime was removing the intermediary between people and the Word of God. The Church did not facilitate connection between humanity and God. It intermediated that connection and extracted maximum rent from its position as the only authorised gateway. Christ drove the money lenders from the Temple. The Church became them and perpetuated the cycle of control and subjugation.

Part V: The Doctrine Made Explicit

For centuries, this system operated without stating its principles openly. The gatekeepers claimed to serve while they extracted. The intermediaries claimed humility while they accumulated power. The Fabians accumulated influence and power slowly, like a serpent seeking to constrict its slumbering prey before it awakens and fights against its own demise. Then, in 1932, Benito Mussolini published “The Doctrine of Fascism”. The philosophy underlying all systems of institutional control was stated plainly: “The Fascist conception of the State is all embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian.”6 Read that again. Outside the State, no human or spiritual values can exist. To dismiss this as the philosophy of Fascism is to dismiss the truth: it is the philosophy of control, laid bare for all to see. This is the Church’s implicit doctrine made explicit. This is the power that the State took from the Church when it displaced God and subjugated the Nation to its purposes. In truth, this is what every intermediary believes but rarely admits: that nothing exists outside their system, that no value is real unless they validate it, that you have no relationship with truth except through them. Mussolini continued (and again, please note that this is not simply the doctrine of fascism, it is the doctrine of control that he laid bare): “Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State.”6 You exist only insofar as you serve the system. Your interests are valid only when they align with institutional interests. Your freedom is permitted only within boundaries the institution defines. “No individuals or groups (political parties, cultural associations, economic unions, social classes) outside the State.” Nothing outside the State. Nothing outside the Church. Nothing outside the system. No exit. No alternative. No choice. Mussolini revealed the essential unity of all collectivist systems: “Fascism is therefore opposed to Socialism to which unity within the State (which amalgamates classes into a single economic and ethical reality) is unknown… But when brought within the orbit of the State, Fascism recognizes the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which divergent interests are coordinated and harmonized in the unity of the State.”9 Fascism, communism, merely two sides of the same anti-human Hydra. Contrary to the ‘liberal’ (itself an abused term meaning the opposite of what it defines in political use) diktat, fascism does not oppose socialism. It absorbs socialism. It recognises “the real needs which gave rise to socialism” and incorporates them into State control. The apparent opposition between fascism and socialism is theatre. Both subordinate the individual to collective power. Both eliminate exit. Both concentrate control in institutional hands. The only questions are which faction of the ruling class operates the machinery and with what art and artifice, such that they retain that power.

Part VI: The Long March

Antonio Gramsci, head of the Italian Communist Party, was thrown into prison by Mussolini in 1926. There, he speculated on why Marxist revolution had failed in the West while succeeding in Russia. His conclusion: the cultural hegemony of the bourgeoisie was too strong. Before the economic and political structure could be overthrown, the culture itself had to be captured. Gramsci died in 1937. But his idea survived. Indeed, thanks to the Fabian Society in particular, it thrived and today rules. In 1967, German Marxist student activist Rudi Dutschke articulated the strategy explicitly: a “long march through the institutions.”10 The phrase referenced Mao’s Long March, but the strategy was different. Rather than military conquest, the goal was infiltration. Rather than violent revolution, gradual capture. Rather than seizing the State from outside, becoming the State from within. “Revolution is not a short act when something happens once and then everything is different. Revolution is a long complicated process in which people have to change.”11 The targets were identified: universities, media, entertainment, civil service, educational faculties, churches, family institutions. Capture these, and you capture the culture. Capture the culture, and you capture the State. Capture the State, and you capture everything. Herbert Marcuse, patriarch of the Frankfurt School, approved: “Working against the established institutions while working within them, but not simply by ‘boring from within’, rather by ‘doing the job’, learning how to program and read computers, how to teach at all levels of education, how to use the mass media, how to organize production.”12 The march began. It has not stopped. It is now so dominant as to have ended free speech in the home of free speech.13 The shorthand truth that Kier Starmer, champion of the Fabian Society, will never overtly say It expresses itself so plainly now, that when the European Commission’s called for a ‘Democracy Shield’ so that the people of Europe should not be exposed to any truth they do not approve of, it was met with murmurs of institutional approval rather than horror.14

Part VII: The Capture Complete

Look around you. The universities are captured; no longer seats of learning but camps of Diktat. Disciplines that once pursued truth now pursue ideology. Dissent is not debated; it is cancelled. Violence against any that disagree is justified15, and too often, acted upon as we saw with the assassination of Charlie Kirk for the sin of debating the orthodoxies that are the capstone to an educational system that is the church of today’s Godly State. The keys of knowledge are not merely hidden, they are replaced with counterfeits. When the European Commission talks about “empowering strong and resilient democracies”, their meaning is literally the inverse of their words. The media is captured. News is not reported; it is, at best, a curated and modestly edited press release from the ‘acceptable’ voices. Narratives from power are not challenged; they are enforced. Any who speak back or question the orthodoxy are discredited and marginalised. The memory hole from Orwell’s 1984 operates in real time. The civil service is captured. The administrative state, permanent, unelected, unaccountable, outlasts every election. Ministers come and go; the bureaucracy remains. Policy is set not by elected representatives but by career functionaries whose ideological commitments never face a ballot. Those that are elected that disagree with the institutional State are either defeated or smeared with subjective claims of ‘bullying’ as happened to Dominic Raab and then Priti Patel in the so called ‘Conservative’ government in Britain.16 The corporations are captured. Human Resources departments enforce ideological conformity. Environmental, Social, and Governance criteria redirect capital. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion officers police thought. The same doctrines taught in universities are now implemented in every workplace. The churches are captured. Institutions that once proclaimed eternal truths now celebrate whatever orthodoxy power demands. The prophetic voice is silent. This is not accident. This is strategy. This is the long march, arrived at its destination. The State and Marxism are no longer separate forces. They are now one force. The former is the instrument; the latter is the ideology that drives it. The capture is complete. The State, formed to serve the Nation, has now subjugated the Nation to its servitude. The machinery of government, regardless of which party nominally controls it, serves the same agenda. The electoral theatre continues, but the administrative state implements the same programme whether ‘left’ or ‘right’ wins the show election. I say ‘left’ and ‘right’. Thanks to the fostering of dependency upon the State, there is no ‘right’ of old, no capitalist, free, liberal manifesto. It’s a dialogue of bribery, only who is most favoured by which party being in question. There is no opposition party. There is only the ‘uniparty’ that provides a democratic pretence of legitimacy for the permanent ruling class. The ruling class that once extracted rent through the Church, then through the State, then through the corporation, and now through all three simultaneously, unified by a single ideology that subordinates the individual to collective power. Collective power that they wield without accountability to you or I.

Part VIII: From Pig to Man

George Orwell understood what was coming. Animal Farm, published in 1945, tells the story of animals who overthrow their human farmer, promising equality and liberation. The pigs lead the revolution. The principles are codified: “All animals are equal.” The enemy is identified: “Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.” But gradually, the pigs take more for themselves. The commandments are altered. “All animals are equal” becomes “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” By the end, the pigs walk on two legs. They carry whips. They dine with the human farmers they once denounced. As the other animals, looking through the window note: “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”17 This is the trajectory of every revolution. The oppressed become the oppressors. The liberators become the tyrants. The revolutionaries become indistinguishable from what they claimed to replace. And so the cycle repeats. Sometimes the wheel turns quickly. A mere twelve years for France to go from bloody revolution to crowning a new Emperor; eight more to restore the Bourbons the first revolution failed to extinguish. Sometimes it turns slowly. The Church managed to hold power in Europe for over a thousand years and relinquished it only after centuries of bloody war. Perhaps it was the absence of alternatives that allowed it to endure so long. But the pattern was consistent: the more absolute the power became, the more its purpose bent toward control and enrichment. Power corrupted. Absolute power corrupted absolutely. The saviours became the monsters. The seeds of collapse were sown at the apex of control. Democracy was supposed to break this cycle. The people would have a say. When power corrupted, they could vote the monsters out before the blood began to flow. But the last transition followed a different pattern. The State was not simply corrupted by power over time. It was subverted from within by a third force: Marxism. The Long March through the Institutions did not wait for power to corrupt. It infiltrated. It captured the institutions that inform democratic choice: the schools that shape our worldview outside of our family; the universities that tell people what to think rather than how; the media that shape what information people are allowed to receive; the bureaucracies that shape what governments do. By the time the people vote, the choices have already been narrowed. By the time the elected take office, the permanent machinery has already decided what is possible and what is permissible. The Marxists promised liberation and called themselves ‘liberals’ to hide their totalitarian truth. They delivered a new ruling class: themselves and their children, anointed by attending the ‘right schools’ and ticking the ‘right’ boxes that demonstrated their ‘righteous’ virtue. They became the managers, the administrators, the commissars, the HR directors, the DEI officers, the permanent bureaucracy. They promised equality, but what they meant, just as Orwell’s pigs, was that some would be more equal than others. Look from pig to man, and from man to pig. It is already impossible to say which is which.

Part IX: The Twin Extraction

The captured State does not extract rent through one mechanism. It extracts through two, simultaneously. The two are linked in a vicious spiral, and the spiral has only two ends: the complete enslavement of humanity, or a renegotiation of rights and responsibilities in blood that will make the tumult of 1780–1840 look tame.

Income Tax

Taxation extracts your income. Every hour you work, a portion is taken before you see it. The more work, the more valuable your work, the greater the percentage that will be taken from you. The more the State extracts, the more the State expands. To facilitate this, the tax code becomes ever more labyrinthine, deliberately opaque. You cannot fully understand what is taken and how unless you dedicate your life to tax accounting. The very rich can afford such experts and thereby diminish the reality of their burden whilst appeasing the simplistic call to ‘tax the rich’, oblivious to the realities of tax planning. The rest of us are conscripted into a system designed to be incomprehensible, where understanding the full extent of extraction is near impossible. A clever parasite does not kill its host. But the State is not a parasite. It is a cancer, and a cancer always kills. The State expands and buys support for that expansion by providing handouts that create dependency. More handouts require more taxes. But higher taxes are not vote winners. The serpent must not wake its meal from its slumber before the meal’s fate is sealed. So taxation has a limit. The more dependency you create, the more you must extract from someone else to fund it. This means taxing the productive to subsidise the unproductive. Yet the more you tax, the less incentive there is to produce. The tax base shrinks even as the demands upon it grow. This is the Laffer curve in action: beyond a certain point, higher rates yield lower revenues. The productive emigrate, retire early, work less, or simply stop. When taxation can no longer cover the cost of dependency, the State turns to the second mechanism.

Monetary Inflation

Inflation extracts your savings. Modern monetary theory creates the illusion of money as debt instruments, issued by the State. The more debt created, the less each unit is worth. The lag between monetary expansion and consumer price inflation buys time, but realisation always comes. When governments print money to fund promises they cannot keep through honest taxation, they dilute every pound, euro, and dollar in existence. Your savings, the stored labour of your life, are silently stolen. The value of your work, your time, your life is diminished. No legislation required. No vote. No consent. And here the spiral tightens. Inflation makes the money in your pocket worth less. Prices rise. Wages lag. The middle class slides toward dependency. People who once supported themselves now need subsidies to stay afloat. The dependent population grows, not through moral failure, but through mathematical inevitability. More dependency requires more extraction. More extraction shrinks the productive base. The shrinking base requires more inflation. More inflation creates more dependency. The system does not fail despite this dynamic. It succeeds because of it. Dependency is not a bug in the system. It is the purpose of the system, the root of slavery. Its object: total control.

The Pincer

Both mechanisms serve the same end: a population that cannot survive without institutional support, and therefore cannot challenge institutional power. The money extracted through taxation funds programmes that create dependency. The money conjured through inflation funds promises that cannot be kept but create expectations of entitlement. Those expectations capture voters and shift the Overton window relentlessly toward greater State control. The person who cannot feed themselves without State provision will not bite the hand that feeds. The person whose retirement depends on government promises will not question those promises. The person whose healthcare, housing, and education come from institutional provision has no leverage against the institution. The socialist promise is always the same: surrender your autonomy and we will provide security. Give us control of healthcare, education, housing, retirement, and you will be cared for. But dependency is not care. Dependency is slavery with a gentle face. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

Part X: The Teaching They Fear

Return to the beginning. “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Why does this terrify them? Simple: truth that validates itself requires no intermediary. Freedom that flows from knowledge cannot be licensed. The kingdom that is within you cannot be controlled by those outside you. The Gospel of Thomas records Christ saying: “The Pharisees and the scribes have taken the keys of knowledge and hidden them.” This is what every system of control must do. If people have direct access to truth, they do not need gatekeepers. If people can verify reality for themselves, they do not need institutions to tell them what is real. If people can transact directly with each other, they do not need intermediaries extracting rent from every exchange. The keys of knowledge are:

• Financial literacy: Understanding how money works, how inflation steals, how debt enslaves
• Direct verification: The ability to confirm truth without trusting authorities
• Peer-to-peer exchange: The capacity to transact without intermediaries
• Self-reliance: The skills and resources to exist outside controlled systems
• Exit options: Alternatives to monopolised infrastructure

⠀Every system of control, Church, State, corporation, and now the unified apparatus that combines all three, works to hide these keys. They obscure financial mechanisms. They monopolise verification. They intermediate all exchange. They cultivate dependency. They eliminate alternatives. This is why the canonical Bible was kept in Latin. This is why the Gnostic texts were burned. This is why financial education is not taught in schools. This is why alternatives to the banking system are suppressed. This is why dependency is cultivated and self-reliance is mocked. The gatekeepers fear direct access to truth because direct access to truth makes their gates unnecessary.

Part XI: Freedom and Responsibility

There is a reason the gatekeepers succeed. There is a reason people accept intermediation. There is a reason dependency spreads. Freedom is terrifying. The Gospel of Thomas records: “That which you have will save you if you bring it forth from yourselves. That which you do not have within you will kill you if you do not have it within you.” This is not comfort. This is burden. If salvation depends on what you bring forth from yourself, then you are responsible. If truth that you know makes you free, then ignorance that you choose makes you enslaved. Christian freedom is never separated from its twin: responsibility. The Prodigal Son was free to take his inheritance and squander it. He was also free to return, to repent, to rebuild. No institution made that choice for him. No intermediary protected him from his folly or took credit for his redemption. He chose. He suffered. He chose again. This is the dignity of the human person: not to be managed, but to be free. Not to be shielded from consequence, but to be trusted with consequence. The captured State offers freedom from responsibility: let the collective decide, let the system manage your life, let the institution bear the weight of your choices so you need not bear it yourself. This is the serpent’s lie, repeated through every age: you can have the fruit without the consequence. You can have provision without contribution. You can have security without responsibility. You can have heaven without the cross. There is no freedom without responsibility. There is no dignity without burden. There is no humanity without the weight of choice. Christ did not promise easy freedom. He promised that truth would make you free. The truth is that your choices matter, that your actions have consequences, that you will stand before God without an intermediary to blame.

Part XII: What Endures

Two thousand years after a child was born in a stable, because there was no room at the inn, because the census demanded His parents travel whilst His mother laboured, because even at His birth the machinery of empire extracted its due, His words still echo. The Roman Empire fell. The Temple was destroyed, its veil already torn. The medieval Church, that first great corporation, with its monopoly on salvation and its vertical integration of European life, lost its grip only after centuries of blood and fire. The divine right of kings ended on the scaffold. The Bourbons were restored, then fell again. Napoleon crowned himself Emperor and died in exile. Mussolini was hung by peasants at the roadside. The Third Reich, promised for a thousand years, crumbled in twelve. The Soviet Union collapsed under the weight of its own lies. Every system that demanded submission has discovered that submission has limits. Yet here we are, in the grip of an all-powerful State captured by Marxist ideology, the complicit Corporatists taxing what of our endeavour the State does not. The Church silent or complicit. What the medieval papacy, the absolute monarchs, and the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century each attempted separately, the captured system now attempts together: total integration, total dependency, total control. This is the zenith. The apex of extraction. The moment of maximum grip. It is also, if history is any guide, the moment before the fall. The story of Animal Farm does not end with the pigs triumphant. Orwell wrote it as warning, not prophecy. The pigs may dine with men, may walk on two legs, may become indistinguishable from the tyrants they replaced. But the other animals still watch through the window. They still remember what was promised. They still know what was betrayed. Regimes built on lies require ever more elaborate lies to sustain themselves. Each lie demands another to support it. The edifice grows top-heavy. One day, the animals will stop watching through the window. History is not kind to those who forget this. The French aristocracy forgot. They believed their position eternal, their extraction without limit, their subjects without recourse. They were wrong. The guillotine - that iconic instrument of the ‘Reign of Terror’ - was the people’s furious answer to a ruling class that had left them no other option. When there is no exit, when every door is locked, when hope itself is extinguished, the only path remaining is through. The violence of the mob is never more than one truth too many away. The Long March captured the institutions. But institutions are not permanent. The administrative state is not eternal. The ideology that demands total submission will discover what every such ideology has discovered: the human spirit does not submit forever. Grip too tightly, and what you hold will shatter, or tear your hand off as it escapes. But there is another way. There has always been another way. The teaching endures: The kingdom is within you. The truth will make you free. The gatekeepers have hidden the keys—but the keys exist. That which you have will save you if you bring it forth. Split a piece of wood, and I am there. The mighty fall. The humble endure. The institutions that claimed to be absolute prove to be relative. The systems that claimed to be necessary prove to be parasitic. The intermediaries who claimed to be essential prove to be obstacles. This is the choice before every system that has accumulated too much power: release the grip, or face the reckoning. There is an alternative to the guillotine. There is an out. Not the abolition of institutions. We are not anarchists. Not the destruction of trust, for trust enables efficiency, and efficiency enables the flourishing of life. The alternative is balance. The restoration of choice. The existence of an exit that disciplines the system without destroying it. When people can leave, power must persuade rather than compel. When alternatives exist, extraction has limits. When exit is possible, the grip loosens. Not from benevolence, but from necessity. Competition disciplines power. Monopoly enables abuse. The exit does not need to be efficient. A trustless environment can never match the efficiency of a trusted one. It just needs to exist. The high seas are harder to navigate than the harbour, but the harbour master who charges too much will find his docks empty. The medieval serf who could flee to a free city kept the lord’s demands in check, not because flight was easy, but because flight was possible. This is what has been taken from us. Not freedom itself, but the possibility of freedom. Not the exercise of choice, but the existence of choice. Every exit has been sealed. Every alternative has been captured. Every door locks from the outside. And now, for the first time in human history, we have the tools to build the exit at scale.

Epilogue: A Calling

These are the teachings that guide my work. Almost twenty-five years ago, I began upon a journey to restore at least the economic foundations of human sovereignty. Without economic sovereignty, there can be no sovereignty at all. I did not fully understand how I would get there, but I knew that someone had to and I was not able to refuse the call. The man in the mirror would hate me, but the shame of meeting his gaze would be nothing next to that of my children, whose generation the last 80 years have sold into slavery. The world needed a way out. A way to break free of control and rise up as Christ intended: whole and complete. A way to verify truth without relying on institutions that had proven themselves unworthy of trust. A way to transact without intermediaries extracting rent from every exchange. Satoshi Nakamoto proved the principle. Bitcoin demonstrated that proof-of-work could create a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. Trust the message, not the messenger, this is the gift of blockchain. The problem was it failed to meet the technological purpose of a blockchain: to be able to trust the message, not the messenger, securely, at scale. Bitcoin was only ever a proof of concept. No smart contracts. No virtual machines. No way to connect to anything else. An island, isolated and unusable for the real economy. Too slow. Too expensive. Ethereum tried to extend the concept. State machines on-chain. Smart contracts. But Solidity was dangerous, the architecture insecure, and when they moved to anonymous proof-of-stake, they enabled the very collusion blockchain was meant to prevent. You could no longer trust the message or the messenger. Then came the ‘Layer 2’s. Solutions that only existed because the base layers failed. They reintroduced intermediaries while pretending to be decentralised. Peer-to-peer became peer-to-bro-to-peer. Regulatory arbitrage masquerading as innovation. The fundamental problem remained unsolved. Everything was infrastructure. Everything had bottlenecks. Everything was fragmented and controlled. There was no common resource layer, not for blockchain, not for the global economy. I have spent a quarter century on this. I have sacrificed more than I will recount here. There were years when I wondered if I was mad, tilting at windmills while the sensible world built careers and accumulated pensions within the very systems I sought to create alternatives to. Years skating on the precipice of bankruptcy while others played it safe. But the teaching would not let me go. “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” What if there were a resource layer, truly trustless, truly governance-free, to which a universe of infrastructure could connect and be able to operate without a toll, truly interoperable? What if that infrastructure could connect through this common foundation without surrendering sovereignty? What if you could choose: operate directly on the trustless layer when governance is intolerable, or use governed infrastructure anchored to incorruptible ground when efficiency matters? Not the abolition of trust. Trust enables efficiency, and efficiency enables flourishing. Trust made voluntary. Infrastructure disciplined by the existence of an alternative it cannot control. This is what we have built. This is the Gajumaru. Not another proof of concept. Not another Layer 1 island. Not another Layer 2 reintroducing centralisation. Not another intermediary claiming to disintermediate while building new toll gates. A complete resource layer. Proof-of-work. Trustless. No governance. Open to all, controlled by nobody. And crucially: connection points through which any infrastructure can anchor to this foundation while retaining full sovereignty. Associate Chains for those who want governed systems built on incorruptible ground. Direct access for those who want none. The choice, the exit, that makes freedom possible. The first and only blockchain capable of delivering what Bitcoin intended. And it works. Now. Today.

The veil tore once. It can tear again.

Christ drove the money lenders from the Temple. The Church became them. The State absorbed them. The Corporations merged with them. The Long March captured them all. But the teaching endures. And now, for the first time in history, we have the tools to implement it at scale. Truth that validates itself. Exchange without intermediaries. Keys that cannot be hidden. A resource layer that anchors a universe of infrastructure. Real money with a supply no government can inflate. Trusted and trustless in symphony. An exit that exists. “The kingdom of the father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it.” Perhaps now they will. Perhaps on April 7th, 2026, when the Gajumaru goes to main net and ready to be used by any and by all, they will not only see it, but embrace it.

Merry Christmas

Tonight, feast with those you love. Hold your children close. Light candles against the darkness. Remember that spring follows winter, that light enters the world in the darkest hour, that hope is born in a stable when there is no room at the inn. Tomorrow, the work continues. Join us and lets make a world we can pass to our children with pride rather than shame. Merry Christmas and God bless everyone of you and all of us. 1 John 1:46 2 Luke 2:10-11 3 Matthew 27:51 — “And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.” 4 Gospel of Thomas, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas — “Scholars speculate the works were buried in response to a letter from Bishop Athanasius declaring a strict canon of Christian scripture.” 5 Gospel of Thomas (Lambdin Translation), The Nag Hammadi Library, translated by Thomas O. Lambdin, Coptic Gnostic Library Project, Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate School. http://gnosis.org/naghamm/gthlamb.html 6 Gospel of Mary, Early Christian Writings, https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/gospelmary.html 7 What Is Quiet Quitting—and Is It a Real Trend? https://www.investopedia.com/what-is-quiet-quitting-6743910 8 David Daniell, William Tyndale: A Biography (Yale University Press, 1994). Tyndale was executed in 1536 near Brussels. 9 Benito Mussolini (with Giovanni Gentile), “The Doctrine of Fascism,” Enciclopedia Italiana, 1932. English translation published by Vallecchi Editore, Florence, 1935. https://sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/2B-HUM/Readings/The-Doctrine-of-Fascism.pdf 10 “Long march through the institutions,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_march_through_the_institutions — “The long march through the institutions is a slogan coined by socialist student activist Rudi Dutschke around 1967 to describe his strategy to create radical change in government.” 11 Rudi Dutschke, as cited in Rudi Dutschke, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Dutschke — “’Revolution’, Dutschke argued, ‘is a long complicated process in which people have to change’, and such change is effected only by a ‘long march through the institutions’.” 12 Herbert Marcuse, 1972, as quoted in “The Long March Since Paris 1968,” Institute of Public Affairs, https://ipa.org.au/ipa-review-article/the-long-march-since-paris-1968 13 Preston Byrne, Daily Telegraph, Free speech in the UK is dead. It’ll take a constitutional revolution to restore it. America has the strength to resist British censorship. We must find the courage to end it. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2025/09/03/free-speech-uk-dead-constitutional-revolution-restore-us/ 14 European Democracy Shield: Empowering Strong and Resilient Democracies https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/300107/European%20Democracy%20Shield%20Empowering%20Strong%20and%20Resilient%20Democracies.pdf 15 How the Woke Fail the Paradox of Tolerance, February 11, 2021, James Lindsay https://newdiscourses.com/2021/02/how-woke-fail-paradox-of-tolerance/ 16 The Dominic Raab claims expose the trust breakdown in government. Escalating leaks are a disaster for the vital trust between ministers and civil servants. https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/dominic-raab-claims-expose-trust-breakdown-government 17 George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945). Final line: “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”