Wielding Fear: Control Through Fear Culture

Shut up. Don’t disagree. Agree with the majority. Go with the flow and don’t make waves. Don’t balk at the system or speak your mind. Be like them. Agree with them. Say what they say; believe what they tell you. Don’t be yourself, question, or have your own mind, or else. They’ll ruin you, destroy you, and cast you out of the herd.

What’s Going On?

When did the world become this? When did we adopt Karl Marx’s, Hitler’s, and Mao Zedong’s methods for subduing the masses into compliance and implement them to create this culture of lemmings? And why the hell is no one standing up to it?

I can’t believe what I see every day. People are walking through life like sheep in a herd, led by wolves. This is not a dystopian movie or tale. This is reality. It’s really happening. The patients are running the asylum, and no one speaks out.

We are living in a culture run by fear-mongering. The perpetrators: the media, Hollywood, news, politics, government, social media, and the educational system. The victims: you. I don’t say us because I was raised to be an individual and to be free. This man raised me and taught me never to let anyone tell me what to do, say, believe, or think. And yet no one is doing that.

You want to see society decline and be destroyed? This is how it’s done: fear. Let me paint you a picture.

Painting the Canvas

We now have a world addicted to social media. Never is this more apparent than among our youth. Coup one, win one, for the system. An entire generation is living vicariously through a 3x6’ screen. Millions of others are glued to these wicked little screens that tell them what to do, how to act, and how to dress and behave like everyone else with fame or power. And they do it.

People are having relationships with their phones. Yes, I am saying it, with their phones, not with humans. Don’t argue about it, because every day I learn more and more that these interactions are with bots or scammers pretending to be someone else. AI is facilitating that at light speed, and no one is paying attention. Maybe you have all given up and don’t want to pay attention.

The less interaction we have in the human realm, the more alone we feel. We are more alone than ever, yet the world has never been more populated. They lie to you, saying the internet will draw people closer together and make the world smaller, when the opposite is true. The powerful know it. They have created it and use it to control you, telling you they’re not, and you eat it like candy.

They know that isolation is the fastest and most effective way to control. Why? Because humans are social beings. We thrive and prosper only when we are social. It isn’t a want; it is a requirement for a civilized world. Socialization is integral to being human, and without it we become lonely and depressed. Have you noticed?

There is more depression and loneliness now than ever. Even more so than before we had this glorious internet leviathan. The consequence is simple if you deign to stop and think about it for a minute.

People need people, friends, family, and belonging. Social media feeds loneliness with flashing images of what the world is doing, wearing, watching, and saying. It connects people who, most of the time, will never meet. Connection is promised but, in actuality, not realized. We have been lied into believing that a click, a like, or a join means you are part of something. You are not. You are a tool for something, a victim of their brainwashing. So we click, join, share, and become more alone.

Connect the Dots

Now let me connect those dots for you. Mao, Hitler, and Marx knew that to achieve complete and utter control, you need to change the population’s minds. When you do, you have their hearts. The heart is more powerful than the mind in shaping actions. Don’t believe me; just look at love.

Heinous dictators know that you start by controlling education and the young. They mold the future, so you begin by creating disquiet and chaos there. Make them unnerved and unhappy with what they have, what they see, and how they feel. Feel is the key word. Again, it’s a heart issue, and the heart governs the mind most of the time, especially in youth.

That causes upheaval in the family because this youth becomes disenchanted with their governing entities, which happen to be their parents and elders. Parents, in turn, too lazy or unwilling to be disturbed by their Instagram and TikTok feeds, give in to them to keep the peace so they don’t have to deal with the tough things.

The powerful see this dynamic and create more tension by continually amplifying perceived oppression. Then they become the hero by hand-feeding them solutions, agreeing with them and, again, giving them perceived approval, which to most equals unity. Unification is interpreted as belonging, but it’s not. It is simply corralling.

Once in your nice little pen, they hand-feed you whatever they want, and you take it and eat. Why? Because being alone is so horrible. The sheep not in the pen are hungry to be part of the beloved herd, so they shimmy up to the herded sheep and find an opening to join the group. Then they, too, are fed. You eat what you are given. Kumbaya.

Outsiders

But there is a problem. You can’t enter the barn or eat the quality feed if you are a goat. No. You are different. You are not like the others. They push you out and refuse to feed you. You are on your own.

Remember Sesame Street?

One of these things is not like the other.
One of these things is not the same.

People are being controlled at unprecedented rates. How? Fear. They began conditioning you at a young age: to be the same, to follow, to not want to be different. The people in control are still using that simple, innocent method to control society. People have been taught to fear being alone and out of the popular crowd. This fear carries into grade school, high school, college, and on into the workplace.

It’s that fear they use to reshape society into herds of lemming drones that think only collectively, in tandem. No stragglers. Or you are cut out. They understand the human need to belong to a social group, and they wield fear of ostracism to create compliance. And compliant you become. Compliant you are.

I can name many things I have seen and am seeing that prove this point. You will have to stop internet trolling, step out of the social media stupor, and open your eyes to see it. I won’t show it to you. I see it. Others do as well. If you want to stop being herded right off the cliffs, then you have to do the work. If you don’t want to because it is too much of a hassle, then stay in your pen, caged. You don’t want freedom, so stay there and fatten up for slaughter.

Stop Eating the Feed

The goat and the sheep that don’t follow the others into the pen will go to roam the fresh fields of verdant grass. They’ll feast on natural things, not manufactured. The outcasts get to be free, while the sheep are loaded into trailers and told they will remain with the others in the group, all the way to the butcher.

People, stop being afraid. Stop letting the machine tell you what to do, say, think, and believe. Be an individual, a leader, not a follower. Seek, research, do the homework, and stop acquiescing to the collective out of fear of not belonging. Stop letting the insanity rule the sane. It’s not real because they made something up that you are told to assimilate. If you don’t fall in line, they destroy and abandon you. That is control. Control via our innate need to belong.

Don’t believe me. Always seek answers for yourselves.

Read Hitler’s Mein Kampf, Karl Marx’s and Friedrich Engels’s The Communist Manifesto, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, and the writings of Mao Zedong- the playbooks for control that are being used to control you.

As for me, I’ll think, as I choose, not as I am told. I will not follow.

(Published by Illumination on Medium, August 2026)

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