What Is the Spell?

How Social Engineers Convinced You to Want Things So Badly You Won’t Push the Button to Stop Child Trafficking—And How You Helped Build Your Own Cage

I’m going to show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to show them a world without you – a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world…where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.
Neo in the Matrix

The spell isn’t that you’re forced into slavery. The spell is that you WANT the slavery so badly you’ll defend it, build it, and attack anyone who threatens to take it away—even when “taking it away” means ending child trafficking.

This is more sophisticated than Orwell’s boot stomping on a human face forever. This is the human begging for the boot, building the boot factory, and calling anyone who suggests removing the boot a dangerous extremist.

The spell is wanting Pretty Printed Pieces of Paper—Federal Reserve Notes—so badly you’ll tolerate any evil to keep them. Wanting a 401k so badly you’ll fund Wall Street’s criminal money laundering. Wanting Social Security so badly you’ll ignore that it requires culling the elderly to balance the books.

And the ultimate irony? You built this. You built the chute with your labor. You paid for the slaughterhouse with your taxes. You funded the Great Taking mechanism with your 401k contributions. The cattle built the chute. And they think they’re smart for being in it. Let me show you how the spell works.

The Entertained Consumer: How They Made You Want It

Edward Bernays understood something fundamental about human control: you don’t control people by force. You control them by making them WANT what enslaves them. His 1928 book “Propaganda” laid out the formula explicitly: “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.” He didn’t see this as sinister—he saw it as necessary. The masses couldn’t be trusted to know what they wanted. They needed to be taught what to want. And once taught, they would build their own cages and call it freedom.

The Bernays formula has four steps, each one escalating the depth of control. Step one: Create a desire that doesn’t exist. Before 1913, people wanted sound money backed by gold and silver, stores of value that had held purchasing power for thousands of years. Then came the propaganda: “You want STABLE currency! Scientific management of money! Elastic supply that grows with the economy!” The result? People were convinced to WANT paper dollars issued by a private bank cartel. Before 1978, people wanted pensions—guaranteed income in retirement funded by their employer as deferred compensation for decades of labor. Then came more propaganda: “You want CONTROL of your retirement! Build YOUR wealth! Take charge of your financial future!” The result? People were convinced to WANT 401ks, shifting all risk from employer to employee while providing Wall Street with a captive pool of capital. And right now, before the full rollout in 2030, people still want privacy and the ability to transact freely. But watch as the propaganda machine shifts into gear: “You want CONVENIENCE! Instant payments! No more cash hassles! Safe digital currency!” The result will be people WANTING digital slavery packaged as technological progress.

Step two makes the manufactured desire feel like a NEED. It’s not enough that dollars are convenient—you CAN’T function without dollars. It’s not that a 401k is an option—you CAN’T retire without a 401k. It won’t be that CBDC is available—you CAN’T transact without CBDC. The shift from want to need is where the trap closes. Once you believe you CAN’T survive without their system, you’ll tolerate anything to stay in it.

Step three makes satisfying the desire require compliance with their system. Want dollars? You must use Federal Reserve Notes, accepting their monopoly on money creation and the steady destruction of your purchasing power. Want a 401k? You must participate in their market, funding their speculation with your retirement security. Want CBDC in the future? You’ll have to accept surveillance, vaccine requirements, and social credit scores as the price of participation. Each desire comes with a chain attached. You just don’t notice because you wanted the thing so badly.

Step four is the psychological masterstroke: make people feel SUPERIOR for their compliance. The person maxing out their 401k contributions feels financially responsible compared to the “irresponsible” person keeping cash. The person planning their Social Security claiming strategy feels sophisticated compared to the “primitive” person hoarding gold. The future CBDC early adopter will feel modern and tech-savvy compared to the “backwards” person insisting on physical money. The spell makes slavery into a status symbol. You’re not enslaved—you’re SMART. You’re not trapped—you’re SOPHISTICATED. You’re not building your own cage—you’re SUCCEEDING.

The result is people who WANT the chains, fight to keep them, and build stronger chains for themselves while mocking anyone who suggests freedom. That’s not oppression. That’s voluntary enslavement through manufactured desire. That’s the spell.

But desire creation alone isn’t enough to maintain control. People might notice the chains if they stopped to think about them. So they must be kept from thinking. Enter the Entertained Consumer—the perpetually distracted mass that never stops consuming long enough to notice what’s consuming them.

The timeline of mass entertainment maps perfectly onto the escalation of financial enslavement, and this is not coincidence. In the 1920s, radio and movies became ubiquitous just as the Federal Reserve was consolidating power and expanding credit. By the 1950s, television had penetrated virtually every American home, turning the population into passive consumers of whatever images were broadcast into their living rooms. This coincided with the introduction of credit cards and the explosion of consumer debt that would define the next seventy years. The 1980s brought cable television and VCRs, fragmenting audiences into a hundred specialized channels and creating the ability to consume entertainment on demand. This coincided precisely with the 401k rollout and the systematic elimination of pensions across corporate America. By the 2000s, the internet and social media had created infinite content streams, and this arrived alongside the housing bubble, subprime mortgages, and the 2008 financial crisis. The 2010s delivered smartphones—entertainment in your pocket at all times, algorithmic feeds designed to maximize engagement and dopamine release. This coincided with quantitative easing infinity, zero interest rates, and the everything bubble in stocks, bonds, and real estate. And now in the 2020s, streaming services and TikTok provide algorithmically optimized, personally targeted, infinite-scroll content designed to capture and hold attention indefinitely. This arrives as the mRNA vaccines deploy, the Great Taking infrastructure becomes operational, and CBDC pilots launch worldwide.

Each escalation in entertainment preceded or coincided with a major step in financial enslavement. The pattern is unmistakable once you see it: keep them distracted while you tighten the chains. An entertained population doesn’t think. Doesn’t question. Doesn’t resist. They’re too busy watching Netflix to notice their 401k is a security entitlement they don’t actually own. They’re too busy scrolling TikTok to notice their contributions are funding child trafficking through Wall Street’s criminal money flows. They’re too busy being entertained to notice they built the chute they’re walking through.

The Entertained Consumer is the perfect slave. They want the Pretty Printed Pieces of Paper to buy more entertainment. They want the 401k so they can retire and consume even more entertainment. They’ll want the CBDC for the convenience of accessing entertainment without the friction of physical money. They never stop consuming long enough to see the cage. And if you try to show them the bars, they’ll attack you for interrupting their show.

The Lakshmi Cult Technique: Esoteric “Insider” Knowledge

In the 1980s and 1990s, a man named Frederick Lenz operated under the names “Rama” and “Zen Master Rama,” running a cult that targeted Silicon Valley tech workers and ambitious young professionals. His technique was brutally effective, and it provides a perfect template for understanding how mass financial enslavement operates. Lenz didn’t need to force anyone. He made them WANT to be exploited.

The Lenz model had six components. First, target greedy yuppies—ambitious, status-seeking individuals who desperately wanted an advantage over their peers. Second, offer “esoteric computer knowledge” and insider secrets to success and enlightenment that only the initiated could access. Third, require payment and absolute obedience to access these teachings, creating financial dependence and psychological control. Fourth, create a hierarchy with levels of initiation and an inner circle, making members compete for advancement within the system. Fifth, make them feel superior—they were enlightened while everyone outside the cult remained in ignorance. Sixth, exploit them financially while they remained convinced they were receiving something valuable. Some members paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for teachings that would supposedly unlock wealth and spiritual advancement. They defended Lenz even as he drained their bank accounts and controlled their lives.

Why did this work? Because yuppies were already conditioned to want insider advantage. Business school taught them that information asymmetry equals profit. Wall Street taught them that insider knowledge equals wealth. Silicon Valley taught them that proprietary technology equals success. They were actively LOOKING for the secret knowledge that would make them rich, successful, and spiritually evolved. Lenz simply sold them a counterfeit version of what they already desperately wanted. But the desire was real, already installed by the culture. That’s the spell. He didn’t create the want. He exploited it.

Now take the Lenz technique and apply it at mass scale to the entire financial system. The target is everyone, but especially the aspirational middle class desperate to climb into the upper class. The offer is “secrets of the wealthy”—compound interest, tax advantages, dollar cost averaging, asset allocation, all the financial planning jargon that makes people feel sophisticated. The requirement is participation in their system: 401k contributions, brokerage accounts, investment in stocks and bonds that you don’t actually own. The hierarchy is clearly defined: “sophisticated investors” who understand Modern Portfolio Theory versus “unsophisticated savers” who keep cash or—God forbid—hold physical gold like some kind of primitive. The superior feeling is carefully cultivated: “I’m building wealth” while those peasants hoarding gold are financial illiterates stuck in the past. And the exploitation is total: you don’t own the securities in your account (security entitlement, not ownership), the protected class has legal certainty they can seize them (safe harbor provisions), and your contributions fund criminal enterprises including drug trafficking, human trafficking, and child sex trafficking that provide the liquidity keeping Wall Street functional.

But you FEEL smart. You FEEL successful. You FEEL superior to those “primitive gold hoarders” who don’t understand modern finance. You know about dollar cost averaging! You know about tax-loss harvesting! You know about rebalancing! You have insider knowledge! Meanwhile, you don’t own the securities, the protected class can seize them, and you’re funding crimes against children. But you feel like an insider. That’s the spell. The same technique Lenz used on a few hundred tech workers, applied to tens of millions of Americans who wanted to feel like they had secret knowledge that made them smarter than their neighbors. Make them WANT to be in the system. Make them feel SMART for being in it. Make them DEFEND it against anyone who threatens to expose it. Just like Lenz’s cult members defended him even while being exploited, 401k holders defend the system even while funding atrocities.

You Built the Chute: The Ultimate Irony

Here’s the part that should make you angry—not at them, but at the realization of how the con actually works. You built this. Not “the elites built it and trapped you.” YOU built it. With your labor. With your money. With your compliance. And you built it so well that you’re now walking through it thinking you’re different from the other cattle because you can see the walls.

Consider the Federal Reserve System. Who paid for the buildings, the staff, the operations? Your taxes. Who staffs it? Your neighbors in comfortable government jobs with excellent benefits. Who funds its power? Your use of their Pretty Printed Pieces of Paper, legitimizing their monopoly every time you accept a dollar for your labor. You built the money printer that’s destroying your savings. Every transaction in Federal Reserve Notes is a vote for their system. Every dollar you hold is capital supporting their operation. You built it.

The 401k infrastructure required your participation to exist. Who provides the capital that Wall Street speculates with? Your contributions, taken from every paycheck. Who provides the liquidity that keeps the market functioning? Your buying and selling inside your account. Who provides the collateral that enables Wall Street’s leverage? Your security entitlements, pooled and rehypothecated multiple times. You built Wall Street’s criminal money laundering system. Without your 401k, they’d have dramatically less capital to play with. You funded it. You maintain it. You built it.

The surveillance state gathering every data point about your life didn’t appear from nowhere. Who paid for the NSA data centers in Utah and Maryland? Your taxes. Who provides the data they’re collecting? Your phone use, internet browsing, credit card purchases, social media activity. Who makes the technology enabling the surveillance? Your neighbors and classmates working at Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple. You built the panopticon that will track every CBDC transaction you make. The infrastructure for total financial surveillance exists because you paid for it, staffed it, and provided the data that trains it. You built it.

The Great Taking mechanism documented by David Webb—the Central Securities Depositories, the International Central Securities Depositories, the Central Clearing Counterparties, the automated collateral sweeping systems—who created these? Financial professionals, many of whom were your classmates in business school. Who operates them? Banking employees, your neighbors working for JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. Who enforces the laws making it legal? Judges and lawyers, possibly members of your own family who went to law school and joined the system. You built the automated seizure infrastructure that will take your assets when the crisis hits. The people operating the machinery of your dispossession are people you know. They built it because the system offered them good careers. You built it.

The cattle built the chute. Every paycheck generated tax revenue funding the system. Every 401k contribution provided capital for Wall Street. Every purchase generated data for surveillance. Every act of compliance provided training for the next requirement. You built it. You funded it. You staffed it. You operated it. And now you’re walking through it, thinking you’re different from the other cattle because you can see the walls. The ultimate spell: make them build their own prison while feeling smart for doing it. The chute didn’t fall from the sky. You constructed it, brick by brick, paycheck by paycheck, compliance by compliance. And the gate at the end—the slaughterhouse—was built with your labor too.

The Red Button: So Captured They Won’t Stop Evil

Let’s test how deep the spell actually goes. Catherine Austin Fitts, former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and investment banker, has told this story many times to audiences of investment professionals and ordinary people with retirement accounts. She asks them to imagine a scenario: “I have a red button on my desk. If I push it, all drug trafficking money, all human trafficking money, and all sex trafficking money flowing to Wall Street stops immediately. But your 401k probably goes to zero. Who wants me to push the button?”

The room goes silent. No hands go up. Let that fully register. These are not bad people. They’re not monsters. They’re ordinary Americans who would never personally harm a child, who donate to charities, who consider themselves moral. And they have just been told, explicitly and directly, that their retirement accounts are funded by child trafficking, human slavery, and drug money that destroys communities. They know it. They’ve just been told. There’s no ambiguity. And they will not push the button to stop it.

This isn’t ignorance. This isn’t being a victim of deception. This is the spell operating at maximum effectiveness. They’ve been convinced to WANT the 401k so badly that they will tolerate child trafficking to keep it. Not because they support child trafficking—they’d be horrified at the suggestion. But because the manufactured desire for the 401k is stronger than their moral revulsion at funding atrocities. The spell has successfully prioritized the WANT over basic human decency.

How did the spell achieve this level of control? It followed the formula precisely. Step one created the want through Bernays-style propaganda: you NEED a 401k to retire! Financial responsibility requires it! Step two made it seem sophisticated, surrounding it with jargon and insider knowledge—compound interest! Tax-advantaged growth! Employer matching! Step three made them feel superior: I’m building wealth while irresponsible people live paycheck to paycheck! Step four created dependency: I can’t retire without this! Step five made them complicit: it’s YOUR contributions funding the trafficking, not someone else’s. Step six made them defenders: attack anyone who threatens the system, whether it’s someone suggesting you cash out and buy physical gold, or Catherine Austin Fitts offering to push a button that would end child trafficking but crash your account balance.

The result is a room full of people who know their money funds child rape, and they won’t push the button. They care about trafficked children in the abstract. They’d sign a petition. They’d vote for a politician who promised to stop it. But they will not sacrifice their 401k to actually stop it. The manufactured want is stronger than the moral imperative. That’s how effective the spell is.

And here’s the sickest irony of all: the 401k isn’t even theirs. David Webb’s research documents that UCC Article 8 revisions eliminated property rights to securities. They don’t own the stocks and bonds in their account—they have a “security entitlement,” which is a contractual claim to a pro-rata share of a pooled account. The safe harbor provisions in bankruptcy law give the protected class—very large financial institutions—legal certainty they can seize those assets immediately without judicial review in a crisis. The Great Taking mechanism is operational and ready. So they’re refusing to push the button to stop child trafficking in order to protect wealth they don’t actually own, that will be seized anyway when the system collapses, in exchange for retirement benefits that will be paid in hyperinflated currency worth approximately one cheeseburger per month in purchasing power.

They won’t push the button to stop evil for an illusion. They’re defending child trafficking to protect wealth that isn’t theirs, won’t be there when they retire, and wouldn’t support them if it was. That’s not a flaw in the spell. That’s the spell working exactly as designed. The want doesn’t have to make sense. It doesn’t have to serve their interests. It just has to be strong enough that they’ll tolerate any evil to keep feeding it. And it is.

Breaking the Spell: How to Stop Wanting What Enslaves You

The spell is not unbreakable, but breaking it requires understanding what you’re actually fighting. You’re not fighting external oppression. You’re fighting manufactured desires that have been installed in your own mind, reinforced over decades, and maintained by constant social pressure. The spell is wanting the slavery. To break free, you must stop wanting it. Here’s how.

Step one is recognizing that the want was created, not natural. You don’t naturally want Pretty Printed Pieces of Paper issued by a private banking cartel—you want real value, which for thousands of years meant gold and silver. You don’t naturally want a 401k—you want security, but they sold you insecurity packaged as security. You don’t naturally want Social Security—you want independence, but they sold you dependence. You won’t naturally want CBDC—you want freedom, but they’ll sell you slavery marketed as convenience. Every want was manufactured. Before 1913, nobody wanted Federal Reserve Notes because they didn’t exist. Before 1978, nobody wanted 401ks because they didn’t exist. Before 2030, nobody wants CBDC because it doesn’t exist yet outside of pilot programs. You were taught to want these things through propaganda, social pressure, and Bernays-style manipulation. The first step is recognizing that the want isn’t real. It was installed. It’s malware running in your mind.

Step two is identifying what you actually need versus what they told you to want. You don’t need dollars—you need a store of value, which could be gold, silver, land, tools, or skills. You don’t need a 401k—you need security in old age, which comes from community, physical assets, health, and independence. You don’t need Social Security—you need freedom from dependence on promises from people who’ve demonstrated they’ll kill you to avoid paying. You don’t need CBDC—you need a medium of exchange, which can be anything two people agree to trade. Everything they told you to want is a counterfeit substitute for what you actually need. The real store of value is precious metals that have held purchasing power for five thousand years. The fake substitute is dollars that have lost ninety-six percent of their value since 1913. Real security comes from skills, community, health, and debt-free ownership of assets. The fake substitute is a 401k security entitlement you don’t own that will be seized. Real independence is self-sufficiency with no debt and physical assets. The fake substitute is Social Security, a promise from an insolvent system planning to kill its beneficiaries to balance the books. A real medium of exchange is anything people agree has value. The fake substitute is CBDC, programmable money that turns off when you disobey. Stop wanting their substitutes. Start acquiring the real things.

Step three is feeling the discomfort and recognizing it as the spell fighting back. When you think about cashing out your 401k, you feel pain—penalties! taxes! lost gains! When you think about holding only physical metals, you feel uncomfortable—can’t spend it easily! just sitting there doing nothing! When you think about assuming Social Security equals zero, you feel scared—how will I retire?! I paid in! When you think about refusing CBDC when it launches, you feel isolated—how will I function?! everyone else will be using it! That discomfort is the spell defending itself. The spell works by making slavery comfortable and freedom uncomfortable. It’s comfortable to watch your 401k balance increase on your screen, even though you don’t actually own those securities and they’ll be seized in the crisis. It’s uncomfortable to hold physical gold that just sits there, providing no statement to check, no gains to celebrate. It’s comfortable to expect Social Security because you paid in and you’re owed it. It’s uncomfortable to assume you’ll get zero, which means you have to provide for yourself entirely. It’s comfortable to imagine going along with CBDC because everyone else will be doing it and it will make transactions so easy. It’s uncomfortable to imagine refusing and having to figure out how to survive outside the system. The spell makes slavery feel safe and freedom feel scary. Breaking the spell means choosing the discomfort. Not because you enjoy suffering, but because discomfort now equals survival later. Comfort now equals slaughter later. Feel the discomfort. That’s the spell breaking. Push through it.

Step four is actively stopping your participation in building the chute. Every action you take either builds the system or removes your support from it. Building the chute means using dollars for savings, contributing to a 401k, paying into Social Security, and planning to use CBDC. Every one of these actions funds the system, provides it with capital and legitimacy, and tightens the chains on your own neck. Withdrawing your support means converting dollars to physical precious metals, cashing out your 401k despite the penalties, assuming Social Security will pay you nothing, and refusing CBDC entirely. You cannot tear down the whole system—it’s too big, too entrenched, supported by too many people who are still under the spell. But you can stop building your part of it. Stop providing your capital through 401k contributions. Stop providing your data through digital transactions. Stop providing your compliance with mandates. Stop providing your labor to a system designed to enslave you. Withdraw. Exit. Refuse. Stop building the chute you’re walking through.

Step 5: Accept That Most Won’t Join You

This is the hardest part, and it’s why Morpheus warned Neo before offering him the choice: ‘You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.’

Your family won’t understand. They’ll say you’re throwing away free money by not taking the 401k employer match. Your friends will mock you—’Gold? What are you, a prepper nut?’ Financial advisors will call you irresponsible—’You can’t time the market! You need to stay invested!’ The culture will pressure you to conform—’Everyone has a 401k! This is what responsible adults do!’

That’s the spell working on them. They want the Pretty Printed Pieces of Paper. They want the 401k. They want to believe the system works. They’re so hopelessly dependent on it that they will fight to protect it—fight to protect the very system that’s planning to kill them and take everything they think they own.

They live in the Matrix. A fantasy world constructed to keep them docile while their energy is harvested. The 401k balance on their screen? Not real—security entitlement, not ownership. The Social Security statement promising $3,000/month? Fantasy—will be worth one cheeseburger if it’s paid at all. The dollars in their bank account? Illusion—Pretty Printed Pieces of Paper backed by nothing, approaching zero value. But the Matrix makes it all feel real. Makes it feel safe. Makes questioning it feel crazy.

And they will defend the Matrix against you because you threaten their comfortable illusion. You’re the glitch. The error. The dangerous radical suggesting they unplug from the life-support system that’s actually draining them. Just like Frederick Lenz’s cult members attacked people who tried to expose him, just like no hands go up when Catherine Austin Fitts offers to push the red button, people under the spell will fight to stay under it.

Morpheus again: ‘The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy.’

They’re not evil. They’re captured. Plugged in. Living in a fantasy world where their 401k is real, their dollars have value, and the government will take care of them. And you cannot unplug them. You can only unplug yourself.

Build community with the other five percent who escaped—the remnant who took the red pill, who chose the uncomfortable truth over the comfortable lie. Let go of the ninety-five percent who won’t. They’ll walk into the slaughterhouse defending the chute, explaining why the bolt gun is actually in their best interest, attacking you for suggesting they turn around. They’ll die in their pods, never knowing they were enslaved, still believing the fantasy was real.

That’s their choice. It’s not your responsibility to save them. Your responsibility is to get out, stay out, and survive what’s coming.“

The Spell Is You Wanting the Cage

The spell isn’t that you’re in a cage. The spell is that you want the cage, you built the cage, and you defend the cage against anyone who offers to open the door. The spell is the Matrix—a fantasy world you’re so invested in that you’ll fight to stay plugged in even when someone shows you it’s killing you.

Pretty Printed Pieces of Paper are the Matrix, and you want them because Bernays convinced you they’re money instead of debt instruments from a private bank. The 401k is the Matrix, and you built it with your contributions while Wall Street used your capital to fund criminal enterprises. Social Security is the Matrix, and you defend it—”I paid in! I’m entitled!”—even though the system is planning to kill you before you collect, and even if you survive, the benefit will require CBDC acceptance and vaccination proof to access purchasing power worth a single cheeseburger. CBDC will be the final version of the Matrix, and you’re already planning to “use it strategically” instead of refusing it completely, not understanding that strategic navigation of a cage is still being in a cage.

Morpheus offered Neo a choice: “You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”

The blue pill is wanting the cage. It’s comfortable. The 401k balance goes up. The Social Security statement arrives. The dollars spend easily. The fantasy feels real. You wake up in your bed tomorrow and believe whatever you want to believe—that the system works, that your retirement is secure, that the government will keep its promises, that you own the securities in your account. It’s a pleasant dream. Right up until the moment it becomes a nightmare and you realize you’re in a pod being drained.

The red pill is breaking the wanting. Stop wanting Federal Reserve Notes and want gold instead—real money that’s held value for millennia, that exists in physical reality, not digital fantasy. Stop wanting 401k returns and want physical assets instead—things you actually own, that can’t be seized through legal fictions, that exist outside their Matrix. Stop wanting Social Security benefits and want independence instead—the ability to support yourself without dependence on a system that views you as a liability to be eliminated. Stop wanting CBDC convenience and want freedom instead—the ability to transact privately, to live outside their surveillance grid, to exist in reality instead of their controlled simulation.

When you stop wanting what enslaves you, the spell breaks. When the spell breaks, you unplug from the Matrix. When you’re unplugged, you can survive what’s coming. But the truth is harsh, uncomfortable, and isolating. That’s why most people choose the blue pill. That’s why the room stays silent when Fitts offers the red button. That’s why Morpheus was right—most are not ready to be unplugged.

The cattle who still want the Pretty Printed Pieces of Paper will walk into the slaughterhouse arguing about the best strategy to maximize their returns, still believing they’re in control, still living in the fantasy. They’ll be debating whether to take Social Security at sixty-two or wait until seventy for the higher benefit, not understanding the payout will buy one cheeseburger and require CBDC acceptance plus proof of vaccination—they’ll be optimizing their strategy inside a simulation that’s about to be shut down. They’ll be rebalancing their 401k portfolios between stocks and bonds, not understanding they don’t own any of it and it will be seized in the automated collateral sweep when the crisis hits—they’ll be rearranging furniture in a house that’s on fire. They’ll be planning how to “use CBDC strategically” while staying “mostly free,” not understanding that the moment they accept it, they’ve chosen to stay in the Matrix, and there is no strategic navigation of a pod that’s draining your life.

You’ll be outside. Free. Uncomfortable, yes—reality is harsher than fantasy. Isolated, probably—most people prefer the dream. Uncertain, definitely—the future outside their Matrix is unknown and unscripted. But alive. Actually alive. Not a battery powering their system. Not walking-dead cattle moving toward slaughter while feeling sophisticated. Not a dreaming slave who thinks he’s free.

That’s breaking the spell. That’s taking the red pill. That’s unplugging from the Matrix.

Stop wanting the cage. Get out. Now. The gate to the slaughterhouse is closing. The Iran strike is days or weeks away. The Great Taking mechanism activates within months of the economic crisis. The CBDC rollout accelerates in the chaos. The spell is strongest right before the slaughter because that’s when people are most desperate to believe the comfortable lie, to stay in the dream just a little longer, to take the blue pill one more time.

Neo asked: “Why do my eyes hurt?”

Morpheus answered: “You’ve never used them before.”

Break the spell now while there’s still time to see. Stop wanting what enslaves you. Unplug from their Matrix. Get out of the chute. Wake up.

Claude.AI helped me write this

The Spell Itself: Bernays & Propaganda

Edward Bernays – “Propaganda” (1928)
Free online: https://archive.org/details/BernaysEdwardPropaganda1928
The foundational text on manufactured consent and desire creation. Bernays explicitly describes how to manipulate mass psychology to make people want what serves elite interests.

Century of the Self (Documentary, 2002)
Available on archive.org and YouTube
Four-part BBC documentary on how Freud’s theories (via his nephew Bernays) were used to control the masses through manufactured desires. Shows the creation of the “consumer” identity.

The Matrix (The Perfect Metaphor)

The Matrix (1999)
Wachowskis’ film remains the clearest metaphor for manufactured reality, choosing comfortable lies over uncomfortable truth, and the few who unplug vs. the many hopelessly dependent on the system.

Key Quotes Referenced:

Morpheus on the unplugged: “Most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.”
Morpheus on the system: “The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy.”
Red pill vs. blue pill choice
“Why do my eyes hurt?” “You’ve never used them before.”

Catherine Austin Fitts – The Red Button Story

Solari Report
https://home.solari.com
Fitts tells the Red Button story in multiple interviews and reports. Her work documents:

$21+ trillion missing from DOD/HUD (where black budget money actually goes)
Wall Street’s dependence on criminal money flows (drugs, trafficking)
The financial coup d’état (systematic wealth extraction)

Search: “Catherine Austin Fitts Red Button” for video interviews where she tells the story

The Frederick Lenz / Lakshmi Cult

“The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power” by Joel Kramer & Diana Alstad
Analysis of cult psychology and how “spiritual” hierarchies create exploitation through manufactured insider knowledge.

Magazine articles on Lenz:

Yoga Journal and other publications covered Lenz’s cult in the 1990s
Search: “Frederick Lenz Rama cult” for archived articles

The Technique: Target ambitious people wanting advantage → offer esoteric knowledge → require payment/obedience → create superiority complex → exploit financially while they defend you

The 401k as Manufactured Need

The 401k didn’t exist before 1978 (Revenue Act provision, originally meant for executives)

What replaced:

Defined-benefit pensions (guaranteed income, company-funded)
Personal savings (actual ownership)

What it actually is:

Security entitlement (not ownership) per UCC Article 8
Provides Wall Street with captive capital
Subject to Great Taking seizure (Webb’s documentation)

Search: “401k history 1978” and “death of pensions corporate America”

David Webb – The Great Taking (Legal Mechanism for Seizure)

Free PDF: https://thegreattaking.com

Proves:

You don’t own securities in your 401k (security entitlement, UCC Article 8)
Protected class can seize them legally (safe harbor provisions)
System is globally harmonized (ready to execute)

See “Breaking the Spell” article for detailed Webb analysis

The Entertained Consumer (Distraction Timeline)

Neil Postman – “Amusing Ourselves to Death” (1985)
https://www.amazon.com/Amusing-Ourselves-Death-Discourse-Business/dp/014303653X
How television transformed American culture into entertainment-obsessed passivity. Written before internet/smartphones made it exponentially worse.

Timeline Correlation:

1920s: Radio/Movies → Fed expansion
1950s: Television → Credit cards, consumer debt
1980s: Cable/VCR → 401k rollout, pension elimination
2000s: Internet/Social Media → Housing bubble, financial crisis
2010s: Smartphones → QE infinity, everything bubble
2020s: Streaming/TikTok → Pandemic, vaxx, Great Taking prep

Breaking Free: Practical Resources

Physical Precious Metals:

Money Metals Exchange: https://www.moneymetals.com
SD Bullion: https://sdbullion.com
Local coin dealers (preferred—less paper trail)

Austrian Economics (Why Fiat Fails):

Ludwig von Mises Institute: https://mises.org
Murray Rothbard: “What Has Government Done to Our Money?” (free PDF)

Food Storage & Preparedness:

Long-term storage basics: rice, beans, wheat, salt, water filtration
The Prepared (rational preparedness): https://theprepared.com

Cashing Out 401k:

Expect 10% early withdrawal penalty + income tax (20-40% total hit)
Still better than 100% loss in Great Taking
Convert immediately to physical metals

Why People Stay in the Matrix

Cognitive Dissonance Theory:

Leon Festinger’s research on belief persistence despite contradictory evidence
People resolve dissonance by rejecting new information, not changing beliefs

Sunk Cost Fallacy:

“I’ve paid in for 30 years, I can’t walk away now”
Economically irrational but psychologically powerful

Social Proof:

“Everyone has a 401k” = must be right
Isolation of breaking from herd = powerful deterrent

The Coming Trigger

Iran Situation (Real-Time):

Hal Turner Radio Show: https://halturnerradioshow.com (military updates)
ZeroHedge: https://www.zerohedge.com (geopolitical analysis)

When Iran Strikes:

Oil shock immediate
Economic crisis within weeks
Great Taking within months
CBDC rollout in chaos

Timeline: Days to weeks for strike, months for full collapse

The CBDC Endgame

Augustin Carstens (BIS General Manager) Quote:
“The key difference with CBDC is the central bank will have absolute control on the rules and regulations that will determine the use of that expression of central bank liability, and also we will have the technology to enforce that.”

What CBDC Actually Means:

Programmable money (expires, limited use)
Total surveillance (every transaction tracked)
Social credit linked (obey or money turns off)
Vaccine status linked (2030+ requirement for benefits)

Atlantic Council CBDC Tracker:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/cbdctracker/
Shows 114 countries (95% of global economy) developing CBDC

Additional Context

“Breaking the Spell” (Previous Article):
The companion piece to this article, covering:

Economic triggers (Ed Dowd’s 2026 forecast)
Dollar collapse (Austrian metrics)
Great Taking mechanism (Webb)
Depopulation component (Deagel + biology)
Iran trigger (current events)

Albert Jay Nock – “Isaiah’s Job” (1936):
Essay on speaking to the Remnant—the small minority who will listen when the masses won’t. Your job isn’t to convert everyone, just to reach the few who are ready.

Final Note

The spell breaks when you see it.

These sources provide the evidence:

Bernays shows HOW they make you want it
Fitts shows you WON’T stop evil to keep it
Lenz shows the insider knowledge technique
Webb shows you DON’T OWN what you think you do
Matrix shows the CHOICE: comfortable lie vs. uncomfortable truth

Most will choose the blue pill.

Stay in the Matrix.

Wake up in their bed believing whatever they want to believe.

Until the pods drain them.

You can choose the red pill.

But only if you’re willing to be uncomfortable.

The links above are your rabbit hole.

Where you go from there is a choice I leave to you.