Statism isn’t a system—it’s a cult.  It doesn’t merely govern.  It demands faith.  It rewards obedience, punishes dissent, and sanctifies power.  You’re told it’s for your own good, but its only interest is self-preservation.  Its aim is not your protection.  It’s your submission.

The state can’t survive among free individuals.  It thrives only when people are reduced to manageable units—docile, distracted, dependent.  It can’t afford thinkers, only followers.  It doesn’t want capable citizens.  It wants compliant subjects.

“Education” is the front line of this agenda.  It isn’t designed to produce critical thinkers.  It produces parrots.  Children are trained not to reason, but to recite.  Memorization replaces understanding.  Obedience replaces inquiry.  Anyone who questions the program is labeled disruptive, problematic, or “conspiratorial.” By adulthood, most have learned not to ask questions at all.

They don’t teach history to reveal the truth.  They teach it to obscure it.  Statism’s greatest fear is memory.  Real memory—the kind that remembers the horrors of unchecked power, the cost of central planning, and the millions who died under regimes that claimed to have “good intentions.” That history is buried beneath slogans and flags.

Statism must keep you confused to keep you controlled.  So, it manufactures problems—war, inflation, shortages, pandemics, crises of every kind.  You’re bombarded with threats so rapidly you lose track of which fear came first.  It’s not incompetence.  It’s design.  A constantly anxious public has no time for deep thought, no patience for skepticism, no energy for resistance.

Every emergency expands their reach.  Somehow, none ever end.  Each new danger justifies more surveillance, more restrictions, more spending, more sacrifice from you and more power for them.  The problem is never statism.  The solution is always more of it.

You’re told this is “civilization.” Real civilization requires freedom, not force.  It requires property rights, not plunder.  It requires morals, not man-made decrees that shift with political winds.  What we’re seeing isn’t progress—it’s a polished descent into managed decline.

Statism can’t tolerate anything that makes you independent.  That’s why it attacks the strong family, the self-sufficient man, the private property owner, the principled dissenter.  All must be labeled backwards, dangerous, or privileged.  They represent life outside the system—and that is the ultimate threat.

This is why faith is ridiculed.  Why masculinity is pathologized.  Why entrepreneurship is regulated to death.  Why speech must be policed.  Why digital currencies must be monitored.  Every channel of independence must be choked until only one remains: the state.

What once was voluntary becomes mandatory.  What once was moral becomes political.  What was once unthinkable becomes policy.  This is the rot that statism spreads.  Not through bayonets at first—but through bureaucracy, ballots, and benevolent slogans.

This isn’t governance.  It’s the cult of control.  Its rituals are elections.  Its sacraments are taxes.  Its clergy are bureaucrats.  Its god is the state itself.

It can’t be reasoned with.  It can’t be reformed.  Its logic is force.  Its product is decay.  Its promise is death dressed as security.

Reject it entirely.  Not because it’s flawed, but because it’s false.  It has no rightful claim on your mind, your labor, or your life.

References

Milton Mayer; They Thought They Were Free

Erich Fromm; On Disobedience