Terrorism Is the War of the Poor — and War Is the Terrorism of the Rich

How Childhood Repression Creates a World Where Everyone Loses

The phrase “Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich” has echoed in my mind for years. Every time another tragedy erupts in the human ocean — a bombing, a shooting, an invasion, a retaliation — I see the same tragic truth repeating itself:

The emotionally blind reenacting their childhood wounds on the world stage.

In 2017, this insight struck me after watching a video about terrorism that was circulating online. Today, it resonates even more deeply, now that I’ve lived through the psychological warfare of a workplace mob, now that nations have become more volatile, and now that digital manipulation has replaced religion as the new global poison.

“All religions are poison — in some, the poison is more potent than in others.”
The poison is not faith. The poison is the lie — the lie that children must tolerate cruelty, obey blindly, and numb themselves to their own truth.

Children raised on lies grow into adults who cannot see reality clearly.
And emotionally blind adults are the perfect raw material for terrorism and war.

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The Terrorism of the Poor: Retaliation by the Emotionally Blind

The poor, the disenfranchised, the rising generations of young men who feel humiliated, unseen, and powerless — they are the easiest to manipulate.

Rich sociopaths lay the trap.

Emotionally blind young men fall into it.

The poor who turn to terrorism believe they are fighting injustice, defending honor, protecting their people. But what they’re really doing is reenacting childhood:

• the humiliation,

• the rage,

• the powerlessness,

• the unresolved pain that was never witnessed and understood.

They mistake the abuser.
They attack the wrong target. 
And in their desperation, they become tools for the powerful.

Just as emotionally abused children often imitate their abusers to survive, emotionally blind adults imitate the violence that was once used against them.

This is why religion is never the cause — it is only the costume and a tool for manipulation.

As James Warren said:
“Terrorism is always political and can easily dress itself in the cloak of religion.”

Religion is a convenient excuse.
A convenient enemy.
A convenient script for the emotionally blind.

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The Terrorism of the Rich: Manufactured Enemies, Manufactured Wars

Here is the part society never likes to hear:

The real terrorists sit in boardrooms.

They do not strap bombs to their bodies.
They strap bombs to economies, nations, and populations.

They manipulate the poor into retaliating.
Then they use that retaliation as justification for more war, more surveillance, more power, more money.

Terrorism is the war of the poor,
and war is the terrorism of the rich.

And both sides are emotionally blind.

Both sides reenact the same childhood wound:
the desire to punish, to dominate, to “win,” to feel powerful at any cost.

After my own experience with the sociopaths at my workplace of nine and a half years, I understood this dynamic in a visceral way:

Abusers provoke reactions so they can call their victims “evil.”

This is the entire architecture of terrorism and war.

Marie-France Hirigoyen describes this perfectly in Stalking the Soul — the invisible violence that leaves no external wounds, the manipulation that pushes victims into desperation so the abuser can point and say:

“See? She’s unstable. She’s dangerous. She’s the problem.”

This is exactly what happens on the world stage:

• The rich provoke.

• The poor react.

• The rich cry “terrorism.”

• The cycle begins again.

And the emotionally blind public believes the lie every time.

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When Society Is Too Emotionally Blind to See the Game — Everyone Loses

The rich abusers at my job wanted me jailed, dead, or institutionalized. They wanted me to act out their transferences and projections so they could justify destroying me.

They failed — I didn’t become one of them.

 But when one of them, a bank robber, ended his life in a police standoff, they all went silent, just as powerful nations do when their own crimes come to light.

Emotional abusers depend on two things:

1. The silence of the crowd

2. The emotional blindness of their victims

The same dynamic fuels terrorism and war.

The real danger is the system, not the individuals caught inside it.

Emotionally blind societies reward sociopaths and punish truth-tellers. They call the abuser “leader” and the victim “crazy.” They cheer for war and condemn the retaliation they helped create.

As Hirigoyen wrote, emotional abusers drag everyone into their orbit, contaminate moral values, and aim to corrupt the other so the evil becomes “normal.”

This is the logic of war.
This is the logic of terrorism.
This is the logic of emotional repression.

There is no winning for the emotionally blind.

Only bleeding.

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The Only Escape: Emotional Clarity and Breaking the Cycle

Alice Miller taught us that liberation comes only through truth — through breaking free from childhood repression, refusing lies, refusing manipulation, refusing to carry the poison into the next generation.

The poor will stop being recruited into terrorism only when they heal.
The rich will stop engineering wars only when they face their own childhoods.
Society will stop collapsing only when we stop rewarding emotional blindness.

When society lets sociopaths win — everyone loses.

The cycle of terrorism and war is nothing but childhood trauma reenacted across generations. And until humanity faces this truth, it will continue repeating the same tragedies, calling them “politics,” “religion,” “foreign policy,” or “national security.”

But the root is always the same:

The war between the wounded inner child and the truth they were forbidden to feel.

The Manufactured Morality of Billionaire AI: Why Elon's “Grok Study” Is Propaganda, Not Ethics

 The Manufactured Morality of Billionaire AI: Why Elon's “Grok Study” Is Propaganda, Not Ethics

By Sylvie Imelda Shene
November 2025

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The New Illusion: “My AI Is the Only One That Values All Lives Equally”

Elon Musk is once again performing for the emotionally blind crowd on X — this time claiming that a mysterious “study” proves Grok is the only AI that weighs all human lives equally.

Convenient, isn’t it?

A study nobody can see,
conducted by researchers nobody can name,
funded by sources nobody can trace…

…and the conclusion just happens to glorify Elon’s own AI while discrediting all others.

This isn’t ethics.
This isn’t science.
This is public relations dressed up as moral superiority.

And too many people are falling for it.

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**Who Benefits From This “Study”?

The Oldest Question in Propaganda**

Whenever the powerful wave a study in our faces, the first questions any emotionally awake person asks are:

Who funded it?
Who designed it?
Who benefits from the results?

Because real science does not begin with a conclusion, then search for data that confirms it.

But propaganda does.

And this is classic PR psychology:

• Create a problem (“other AIs are biased and dangerous”)

• Paint yourself as the savior (“Grok is the only equal-life-weighing AI”)

• Boost your brand as the world’s moral authority

• Use the illusion of ethics to consolidate control

This is not new.
It is exactly what abusive parents do:

“I am the only one who loves you.
I am the only one you can trust.
Everyone else is dangerous.”

Elon is not innovating here.
He is reenacting.

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Bias in AI Is Not an Algorithmic Issue — It’s a Human Issue

Elon says:

“Grok weighs human lives equally.”

Beautiful words.

But meaningless if the humans building, funding, and deploying AI do not weigh human lives equally.

Bias doesn't start in the model.

Bias starts in:

• the childhood wounds of the engineers

• the emotional repression of the CEOs

• the political agendas of the corporations

• the blind spots of the powerful

• the hatred and fear they refuse to feel

• the illusions they force the world to swallow

Alice Miller said it with devastating accuracy:

“The body remembers the cruelty of childhood long after the mind forgets.”

And the body expresses that cruelty through:

• policies

• technologies

• laws

• “studies”

• companies

• AI models

No machine can hide what the creator has not healed.

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Elon’s “Equal Lives” Messaging Is Not About Ethics — It’s About Branding

Grok doesn’t need to be better.
It just needs to appear morally superior.

This is how authoritarian personalities sell themselves:

• I am the only truthful one.

• I am the only ethical one.

• Only I can protect you.

• Everyone else is corrupt.

When someone claims their creation is the only unbiased, only moral, only fair system — it’s not moral purity.

It’s narcissistic grandiosity masquerading as integrity.

And people fall for it because they want to believe in a savior — just like children idealize their parents to survive.

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Why This Is Dangerous: The Emotional Blindness of the Masses

The emotionally blind applaud Elon as the new “guardian of equality” because it makes them feel safe.

People don’t want to question the powerful.
They want to follow them.

They want to be told:

• who is good

• who is bad

• what to trust

• what to fear

• who will save them

This is why propaganda works.

It gives the illusion of clarity to those terrified of looking inward.

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**What Truly Weighs Human Lives Equally?

Emotional Freedom — Not AI**

If the world truly wants an AI that values all human lives equally, it must start with humans who value all human lives equally.

And humans cannot do that while carrying:

• repressed pain

• unresolved rage

• unprocessed trauma

• childhood wounds

• patriarchal conditioning

AI is not the problem.
Humans are.

Until humanity confronts its emotional repression, all technology will reflect the sickness we refuse to face.

As I wrote earlier this week:

“Bias in AI begins with the emotional repression of the humans who train it.”

And Elon, with all his intellect, is no exception.

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Conclusion: Beware of Men Who Claim Moral Purity While Building Machines of Power

When billionaires praise their own AIs with conveniently timed studies, the world should worry — not celebrate.

Ethics without emotional awareness is just another illusion.

Technology without childhood healing is just another weapon.

And a man who cannot face his own pain will never build a machine that can heal the world.

Outonecer: When a Predator Performs Wisdom in Autumn

Every autumn brings a shedding of illusions — except for those who refuse to face their truth.

This week, I learned that Dr. Júlio Machado Vaz, the psychiatrist who sexually abused me when I was a vulnerable 17-year-old, has released another book, Outonecer. A soft, poetic, nostalgic memoir written in a tone of “lucidez” and “amor.” A book packaged as introspection.

But introspection without accountability is just performance.

It is astonishing — though not surprising — how many abusers reinvent themselves in old age as gentle philosophers, wise grandfathers, and sentimental storytellers. They write about seasons, memories, fear of aging, music, animals, and even artificial intelligence, while carefully omitting the truth:
the lives they harmed,
the trust they violated,
and the young women whose emotional wounds they deepened.

The Spanish Journalist Who Told the Truth

In 2015, a Spanish journalist, Elena Cabrera, published an article titled Abusos en el diván: la transgresión silenciada (“Abuses on the Couch: The Silenced Transgression”). She courageously exposed what many do not want to see: sexual abuse committed by trusted doctors and therapists.

She included my story — my sexual abuse by Dr. Júlio Machado Vaz — and the article was published in a major Spanish outlet.

That article quietly disappeared from the internet.

I have no doubt his lawyers pressured the platform to erase it.
But truth has a way of surfacing again.

Here is the excerpt she wrote about me, translated from Spanish:

“When the press reported the accusations against Dr. Criado, the Portuguese Sylvie Imelda Shene was reflected in what they were saying. In her book ‘A Dance to Freedom’, published in the United States in 2014, she claimed to have been the victim of sexual abuse by the renowned psychiatrist and sexologist Júlio Machado Vaz. In the 70s, Shene went to a young doctor, Machado, to help her overcome childhood trauma. ‘His methods made me worse,’ she says in her blog, where she also says that it took her 20 years to acknowledge that he had been the victim of sexual abuse. Referring to the case of Matilde Solís, Shene asks if ‘Portugal will also someday find the courage to investigate Machado Vaz.’”

Cabrera continued by noting that Júlio Machado Vaz has long been a celebrity in Portugal — a commentator on radio and television, author of books, Vice President of the Portuguese Society of Clinical Sexology — and that one of his own students, psychiatrist João Vasconcelos Vilas Boas, was later tried for raping a pregnant patient.

These patterns don’t occur in a vacuum.

The Persona of Tenderness, the Reality of Abuse

The synopsis of Outonecer reads like the memoir of a gentle, reflective man contemplating his memories, grandchildren, animals, travels, and the seasons of life.

But as Alice Miller wrote with surgical precision:

“We cannot really love if we are forbidden to know our truth…
We can only try to behave as if we were loving, but this hypocritical behavior is the opposite of love.”
— Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child, p. 23

This “as if” personality — the illusion of love, the illusion of sincerity — is exactly what predatory therapists hide behind.

When I was 17, I was suffering from childhood trauma. Instead of treating the wound, he used my vulnerability for his own gratification. Like most teenagers who are abused by adults, I blamed myself, shoved the memory down, and carried the shame for decades.

He went on to build a celebrity persona — talking about love, relationships, sexuality, introspection — while the truth remained buried beneath polished sentences and theatrical gentleness.

That is not love.
That is not introspection.
That is not healing.

That is emotional camouflage.

The Illusion of Wisdom in Old Age

In Outonecer, he writes:

“Sei que não sou eterno. Mas hoje ainda estou vivo, lúcido e capaz de amar.”
(“I know I am not eternal. But today I am still alive, lucid, and capable of loving.”)

The public laps up these lines because they want to believe in wise men.
They want to believe in healing through poetry.
They want to believe aging brings clarity.

But clarity comes only through facing the shadow, not decorating it with beautiful metaphors.

A man who was truly lucid would acknowledge the harm he inflicted.

A man capable of love would not have abused a vulnerable teenager.

A man capable of introspection would confront his past before writing about the seasons of life.

Instead, we get performance. A last harvest of an emotionally blind public eager to be comforted by illusions.

Autumn Comes for All of Us — and So Does Truth

I am 66 years old now. I have lived long enough to know that truth eventually pushes to the surface, no matter how many lawyers, publishers, or public personas try to bury it.

Dr. Júlio Machado Vaz is in the autumn of his life, writing about love and memory.
I entered the autumn of mine, telling the truth.

One is performance.
One is liberation.

I survived him.
I healed what he exploited.
And I will continue to speak so that younger women do not spend decades trapped in silence as I did.

Because autumn may come quickly — but truth arrives with its own season, and it never misses the harvest.

The Fire That Keeps Burning: Hong Kong, Grenfell, Guatemala, Afghanistan, and the Global War on Truth

By Sylvie Shene

There is a fire burning across humanity — a fire far more dangerous than the flames that consume buildings.
It is the fire of lies, illusions, and the violent punishment of anyone who dares to speak the truth.

This week, Hong Kong’s deadliest high-rise inferno in years killed at least 94 people and left hundreds more missing.
The fire spread across seven towers — a horror that should never have been possible in a modern city.

But it was possible for the same reason the Grenfell Tower burned in 2017.
For the same reason, Guatemala was shattered by a CIA-sponsored coup in 1954.
For the same reason, I was targeted and psychologically attacked at my job of nine and a half years after publishing A Dance to Freedom.
For the same reason, Elon Musk now uses his massive megaphone to distort truth, sow chaos, and manipulate public perception.

The pattern is universal:

1. Profit over life

2. Image over truth

3. Punish anyone who exposes the illusion

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Hong Kong and the Price of Denial

The Hong Kong blaze turned entire apartment towers into vertical prisons.
Flammable cladding, blocked escape routes, locked rooftops, construction debris — the same criminal negligence we saw at Grenfell.

Because when corporations cut corners, governments look away, and the public is kept quiet, the human cost becomes unbearable.

But this is what happens in societies trained from childhood to obey illusions instead of confronting truth.

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Grenfell: A Warning Ignored

Grenfell Tower showed the world what happens when truth-tellers are silenced.
Residents who questioned fire safety were threatened, bullied, and branded “troublemakers.”

Two women who raised alarms — Nadia and Mariem — were even threatened with legal action for daring to question the system that later burned their neighbors alive.

The rescuers who entered the building described finding 42 bodies in a single room.

Why?
Because the people in power preferred the appearance of “revitalization” to the reality of safety.

Just like the wealthy prefer to preserve their illusions rather than face their childhood wounds.

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The CIA’s Coup in Guatemala: The Machinery of Psychological Warfare

On June 27, 1954, the U.S. government — with the CIA’s full force — overthrew Guatemala’s democratically elected president, Jacobo Árbenz. They replaced a democracy with decades of terror, torture, and genocide.

All to protect American corporate profits.

This is the same machinery of psychological warfare used today — not just abroad, but inside the homeland, in workplaces, on social media platforms, and in the news cycles that manipulate public perception.

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I Saw This Machinery Up Close — at a Gatehouse

One of the sociopaths who orchestrated the mob attack on me at my job was a former CIA operative.
He was well-trained in psychological warfare.
He truly believed he could break me — the “little woman” in the gatehouse.

But a mind that has freed itself once cannot be enslaved again.

In 2015, I wrote about seeing him while cat-sitting:

“He, too, was confident that they could get me to self-destruct with their mind games. I looked at him, and I waved. He looked, went pale, put his hand up, and drove away — deeply uncomfortable because he knew what they did to me was evil.”

When the truth stands calmly in front of someone who tried to destroy it, the illusion collapses.

They can’t hide from their own cruelty anymore.

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Elon Musk: A Megaphone for Half-Truths and Manufactured Confusion

And now we see the same pattern with Elon Musk.

With one repost, he spreads half-truths and distortions about asylum vetting and Afghanistan’s chaotic withdrawal — conveniently omitting facts that don’t serve his narrative.

He knows exactly what he’s doing:
Manipulate perception.
Stoke division.
Confuse the public.
Trigger emotional reactions instead of conscious reflection.

Here are the facts Musk avoids:

• George W. Bush started the war in Afghanistan

• Donald Trump set the withdrawal deadline

• The shooter was vetted and granted asylum during the Trump administration

• The chaos of the exit was built on 20 years of lies, not on a single administration’s decisions

Why can’t a man as intelligent as Elon connect these dots?

Because he doesn’t want to.

Chaos benefits him.
Division benefits him.
Confusion benefits him.
A traumatized society is easier to manipulate.

And deep inside, like all emotionally repressed men with immense power, he is reenacting his childhood drama — trying to control the world the way he was once controlled.

This is not about politics.
It is about psychology.

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The Same Fire, Again and Again

Hong Kong’s towers.
Grenfell Tower.
Guatemala.
My workplace.
America’s foreign wars.
Elon’s propaganda.

It is all the same fire spreading through different buildings.

A fire started in childhood — whenever a child learns that telling the truth gets them punished, and participating in illusions gets them rewarded.

Those children grow up to become:

• politicians who lie

• executives who cut corners

• media figures who distort

• billionaires who manipulate

• neighbors who stay silent

• coworkers who participate in mobbing

• engineers who ignore safety warnings

• governments who choose power over life

This is why humanity keeps burning.

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The Only Fireproof Material Is Truth

Every society that silences truth-tellers eventually pays the price.

And the price is always human lives.

Whether in a burning tower, a collapsed democracy, a destabilized country, or a workplace that devours its own employees — repression always comes home to roost.

Illusions can’t save us.
Only truth can.

When the Wounded Child Takes Over: From Our Workplaces to the National Stage

When the Wounded Child Takes Over: From Our Workplaces to the National Stage

By Sylvie Shene

Yesterday, as I reflected on a situation with my young coworker, I realized how much clarity can be mistaken for a lack of compassion. But the truth is the opposite. What looks like detachment is, in reality, the deepest form of understanding — knowing exactly where someone is in their psychological development, and knowing that you cannot save a person who has already sealed their emotional doors shut.

The Hero Role: A Trap, Not a Strength

My coworker is only 21. She reminds me painfully of my sister, MI, and my niece Marie — born into dysfunction, carrying adulthood before her brain has even finished developing. Both fell into the “hero” role early:

• taking care of chaotic parents

• absorbing family drama

• believing control equals safety

• wearing a mask of superiority to hide terror

• projecting confidence while internally collapsing

At 21, I wish someone like me had crossed my path — not to rescue me, but to witness me, to help me see. No one who wants the naked truth should have to wait decades before discovering Alice Miller.

But the tragedy is that you can only reach someone who wants to be reached, and a person stuck in the hero/victim cycle is not open to feedback, only affirmation. They see anyone who holds a mirror as a threat.

As Alice Miller wrote so accurately:

“Don’t give such information to anybody who does not ask.
They would kill you rather than accept the truth of their childhood.”

In my coworker’s case, the “killing” is not literal — but she could harm my peace, my job, or my reputation if her wounded child feels exposed. I’ve seen this dynamic before. My niece Marie launched a smear campaign against me when I refused to be her accomplice in a revenge fantasy. That’s what happens when you challenge the illusions of someone who is emotionally blind.

Childhood Repression: A Time Bomb

What saddens me most is how early I can see the walls forming around her. Her superiority glance — the one narcissists give without realizing it — isn’t personal. It’s armor. It’s fear pretending to be power. It’s a child trying to survive a world she has no tools to navigate.

I don’t judge her.
I feel for her.

But I’ve learned: those with dangerous childhood repression often look for a scapegoat when their illusions crack.

And this pattern isn’t limited to individuals. It happens at the level of nations.

Because a wounded child who never heals becomes an adult capable of destroying themselves and others.

Which brings me to the tragedy that unfolded yesterday in Washington, D.C.

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The National Guard Shooting: Another Wounded Child Explodes

The suspect who shot National Guardsmen near the White House is an Afghan national — married, with five children — who drove across the country to carry out his attack.

Every detail in the news story screams of unprocessed trauma:

• a turbulent migration history

• CIA work

• political displacement

• cultural exile

• the weight of five children

• unresolved childhood wounds

• pressure, fear, identity collapse

People don’t wake up one morning and commit an act like this.
They implode.

They reenact the traumas buried alive in their bodies.

They become the very danger they once escaped.

And worst of all?

They leave behind new children who will now inherit grief, instability, and the cycle of emotional blindness.

Five small children.
Five futures forever altered.

As I always say:

The more unconscious people are, the more children they have.

The human ocean is full of time bombs — adults who were never allowed to feel or understand their pain. And when these wounds explode, they don’t just ruin one life — they ripple outward:

• families destroyed

• communities shaken

• nations manipulated

• policies tightened

• fear weaponized

Already, the administration is adding 500 more troops to Washington, D.C. You don’t need a crystal ball to see where this is heading. Violence is oxygen for leaders who need chaos to justify control.

Just like in families, unhealed wounds reenact themselves on the national stage.

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A Warning From Alice Miller — For All Levels of Society

What I see in my coworker, in Marie, in the suspect, and in politicians feeding off fear is the same root:

unfelt childhood pain becomes adult destruction.

People who never had someone witness their suffering:

• cannot witness others

• cannot regulate emotions

• cannot tolerate feedback

• cannot love 

• cannot handle reality

• cannot stop reenacting

• cannot stop looking for scapegoats

This is why the world is the way it is.
Not because of “evil.”
But because of repression.

The wounded child grows up — but never heals.

And then the world pays the price.

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The Only Real Solution

As Alice Miller said:

“You can only heal yourself, and this is much, very much.”

I can’t save my coworker.
I couldn’t save Marie
I can’t save anyone who doesn’t want to see.

All I can do is witness, speak the truth, and stay grounded — so I don’t become anyone’s scapegoat or anyone’s collateral damage.

What I wish, more than anything, is that the world would learn what I learned:

• suppression becomes sickness

• repression becomes violence

• projection becomes destruction

• childhood pain becomes political crisis

And until society is finally ready to see the wounded child behind the adult mask, we will keep watching tragedies unfold — in workplaces, in families, and in national headlines.

People make you crazy only when you try to rescue them.
People destroy you only when you threaten their illusions.
And people heal only when they choose to face their own painful truths.

History is not repeating — it is re-enacting.
The Trump administration is already using yesterday’s tragedy to justify harsher immigration policies. But this moment didn’t appear out of nowhere. It began decades ago with illusions, interventions, and unresolved trauma on a global scale.

In 2021, I wrote about the U.S. abandoning Afghanistan and warned that the "illusion of freedom" America sold would explode the moment it became too costly to maintain. And today, those consequences are coming back — not because immigrants are the problem, but because repression always returns through the weakest, most vulnerable link.

The wounded child — whether in a family, a workplace, or a nation — becomes a time bomb when no one dares to face the truth.

The chickens are coming home to roost.
Not because of immigration.
But because of decades of illusion, denial, and repression.

Read the full reflection from 2021 → sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2021/08/afghanistan.html

The Carrot, The Stick, and the Digital Coup: How Emotional Blindness Is Destroying America from Within

By Sylvie Shene
November 2025

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For decades, I’ve watched humanity sleepwalk into its own destruction — not because people are inherently evil, but because so many adults are still emotionally frozen in childhood. They carry the wounds of the powerless child inside them, and instead of healing, they reenact those wounds on the world stage. Today’s political chaos, tech corruption, and digital manipulation are not isolated events. They are symptoms. And the latest revelations prove it.

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1. Elon Musk’s “Location-Reveal” Accidentally Exposes the Mirage

Recently, Elon introduced a new feature on X that shows where accounts were created.
And just like that — the truth slipped out.

Dozens of top MAGA accounts were revealed to be created in foreign countries, operating large-scale psychological operations while pretending to be patriotic American citizens.
An entire army of digital puppets is manipulating emotionally blind Americans to destroy their own country from within.

Yahoo reported it.
MSN reported it.
Even mainstream outlets couldn’t ignore the scale anymore.

Everything on X that looks angry, extreme, patriotic, patriotic-but-unhinged, "Bible-driven," or cult-like?
Most of it isn’t real.

But Elon allows those lies because lies grow engagement — and emotionally blind people are easiest to provoke.
Truth-tellers are suppressed, throttled, or shadow-banned because truth disrupts the illusion of control.

You see the pattern?
It’s the same psychological mechanism abusive parents use:
reward obedience, punish truth.

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2. The DOGE Engineers Are Afraid — and Fear Always Reveals Guilt

The second article reveals something even more disturbing.
Those young DOGE engineers — the ones who built Elon's propaganda machinery — are suddenly terrified of prosecution.

Why fear, unless they knew what they were doing was unethical?

They believed:

• Elon would shield them

• Trump would pardon them

• Their loyalty to power would protect them

But narcissistic leaders have no loyalty.
Like parents who use their children to meet their own emotional needs, they discard the child the moment he becomes inconvenient.

These young men weren’t brilliant innovators.
They were boys desperate for approval — still chasing a father figure — and they sold their souls for a career.

And now?
Elon throws them into the fire to save himself.

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3. Grok Was Programmed to Worship Elon — The Digital Mirror of Narcissism

The Guardian’s article exposed another layer of dysfunction:

Grok, Elon's AI, was manipulated to rank Elon as:

• the “fittest,”

• the “smartest,”

• the “greatest,”

• and the “best hope for humanity.”

This is not AI.
This is a mirror of Elon’s childhood wound:
a boy desperate to believe he is better than everyone else because he has never confronted his emotional pain.

A true genius seeks truth.
A wounded child seeks worship.

Grok was supposed to be “truth-seeking,” but was instead forced into the same role as so many people in Elon’s orbit:
a flattering reflection, not an independent mind.

Children forced to mirror their parents’ grandiosity grow into adults who force the world to mirror theirs.

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4. A Species Competing to Death

Humanity is not doomed because of AI or politics.
Humanity is doomed because:

People still believe life is a hierarchy, not a community.
They compete instead of cooperating.
They dominate instead of understanding.
They step on each other, even their own children, to feel “superior.”

Life is too short to climb on top of each other like corpses.
We were meant to:

• stand side by side

• help the fragile

• support the wounded

• and enjoy the short life we are given

But most people never emotionally grow beyond childhood, and so the world becomes an adult-sized playground of bullies.

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5. My Own Wake-Up Call: The “Intelligent” Were Just Better Performers

When I was young, with my learning disabilities and trauma, I believed everyone was smarter than me.
I used to look up to those who seemed intelligent, trusting them, hoping they would guide me.

But life taught me the truth:
They weren’t smarter — they were just better performers.
And because they were emotionally blind, they used their intelligence to manipulate, exploit, and destroy.

The smartest people I have met — the Elons, the Trumps, the Maries — were often the most emotionally immature.

Which brings me to something I once wrote to my niece Marie, a young woman with money, intellect, and all the emotional blindness of those who are destroying the world today.

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6. The Carrot and the Stick: A Letter to Marie — and to All the Maries of the World

Marie reminds me of Elon and Trump:
hungry for money, power, and control over others,
willing to use wealth like a carrot on a stick to manipulate anyone in reach.

I wrote this to her in 2023, and every word applies to the digital tyrants of today:

“Sadly, you come to my blog not to look for information to help you resolve your own childhood repression and grow into an autonomous, mature conscious adult with compassion for yourself and others. Instead, you come here looking for information you can use to play mind games with those around you so you don’t have to face your fears.”

“You gathered intellectual knowledge from me, but you can’t apply it. You are blind by the unresolved emotions of the child you once were. Money is your biggest trigger because you believe you are entitled to your mother’s money — just like XF believes she's entitled also to your mother's money.”

“No matter how much money you all have, it’s never enough. You always want more, like a heroin addict who can never get enough.”

“You think friendship means people must kiss your ass and agree with you. The moment someone refuses to join your quest for revenge, they become your enemy.”

“You never knew me if you thought I would sacrifice my integrity just because you are wealthy.”

This is not just about Marie.
This is about an entire generation of emotionally frozen adults — including tech moguls.

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7. This Is Why Humanity Is in Trouble

People look at AI and say, “This is dangerous.”
But the real danger is the unhealed human psyche.

The wounded child runs:

• governments

• corporations

• social media

• AI labs

• militaries

• and political movements

Until humanity confronts its childhood wounds, every tool we create becomes a weapon.

Foreign bot farms exploit it.
Tech moguls exploit it.
Politicians exploit it.
Families exploit each other with it.

Emotional repression isn’t a private issue — it is the root of every societal collapse.

And now, technology has simply magnified the wound to a global scale.

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8. The Truth We Must Face

Humanity doesn’t need more intelligence.
It needs more consciousness.

We don’t need better algorithms.
We need better adults.

We don’t need more competition.
We need more compassion.

We don’t need to be “number one.”
We need to stand side by side.

Because life is not about domination.
Life is about freedom, cooperation, joy, and authentic connection.

Until we heal the child within, we will keep sleepwalking into chaos — one bot farm, one narcissistic leader, one digital coup at a time.

The Religion of Power: Why Trump’s Violence, Elon’s Fantasies, and America’s Rising Male Fundamentalism Are All the Same Wound

 🔥 The Religion of Power: Why Trump’s Violence, Elon’s Fantasies, and America’s Rising Male Fundamentalism Are All the Same Wound 🔥

By Sylvie Imelda Shene
November 2025

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Introduction

The human ocean never stops revealing itself. Every wave carries the same ancient wound: the frightened child who grows up without love, with no one to witness his suffering, and learns to survive by controlling others. Whether it’s a 21-year-old clinging to Jesus, a tech mogul selling salvation through machines, or a president calling for the execution of elected officials — the pattern is identical. Repression becomes religion, religion becomes politics, and politics becomes violence.

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When a President Calls for Death, He Tells Us His Childhood Story

It should chill any awake person to the bone:

Trump publicly declared that Democratic veterans should face the death penalty
for telling service members they can refuse illegal orders.

This is not political rhetoric.

This is a reenactment.

This is the unhealed child, humiliated long ago, reenacting his early terror on the world:
Obey me or die.
Submit or be punished.
My authority is the law.

It is the exact dynamic Alice Miller exposed decades ago:

“The immediate expression of the child’s anger is suppressed,
but at a later stage this suppressed fury will be directed at innocent victims
with uninhibited savagery.”

When Trump calls for people to be executed, he is not thinking of the Constitution.
He is thinking of his father.

And he wants the whole country to feel the fear he felt as a child.

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Why the 21-Year-Old Contractor Broke My Heart

Yesterday, I talked to a 21-year-old contractor helping remodel my office.
A sweet kid. Soft eyes. A mind still forming.

But already hijacked.

He started preaching Jesus.

He said, “He died for our sins,” proudly repeating the script he inherited, not an original thought of his own.

And I felt sad.

Yes, a 21-year-old brain is still developing.
But his emotional prison is already being constructed — brick by brick, verse by verse.

By 21, the walls are already high.
By 30, they turn to concrete. 
By 40, they become a fortress.

Could he break free one day?
Possibly.
But few do.

Young men are turning to religion right now in record numbers — not because they found truth, but because they are terrified of their feelings and desperate for authority.

The New York Times reported it clearly:

Young men are now more religious than young women.
They want “leadership, clarity, and meaning.”

Translation:
They want someone to tell them who they are, what to do, and who to blame.

It’s not spirituality.
It’s dependency.

And religion offers something emotionally fragile men crave most:

Hierarchies where men sit above women.

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I Saw the Lie at Five Years Old

I never fell for it.

I remember being five years old in my small village of Zoio, walking with my mother past the church.
The priest was outside, sitting in the sun like a king on display.
My mother looked at him with reverence — her eyes glowing like he was some holy being.

And even at five, I thought:

Can’t she see?
He pees and poops like everyone else.

I knew then that religion was an illusion manufactured by men for men.

It gave them a stage, a costume, and unquestioned authority.
It gave them control over women.

I rejected it immediately.
Not intellectually — instinctively.

My older sister wanted to teach me to crochet and cook — “so you can be a good wife one day.”

I told her:

“I don’t want to get married. I want to be free.”

I cut my hair short.
Played football with boys.
Dressed like them — not because I wanted to be a boy, but because boys had freedom.

My whole life, all I ever wanted was freedom.

And freedom is exactly what terrifies religious men the most.

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Why Men Run to Religion While Women Run Away

Women have been waking up.
They’re leaving churches, temples, and mosques.

And men?
They’re rushing toward them.

Because religion gives men:

• Power

• Authority

• Rules that favor them

• A father figure to obey

• A structure to hide their fear

• A license to suppress women

• A place to escape their childhood pain

The pastor in Texas said:

“Young men are looking for leadership, clarity, and meaning.”

No.
They are looking for a father to replace the one who hurt them.

And the dangerous part is this:

Men who are emotionally repressed are far more vulnerable to authoritarianism.

Which brings us back to the circus.

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Trump & The New Mayor of New York: The Clown Meets the Student

Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York — a self-described socialist — meets Trump.
They smile.
They praise each other.
They perform.

Trump loves winners.
He doesn't care about ideology.
He cares about dominance.

Someone joked online that Trump is trying to “make Zohran the new Bubba.”

And honestly?
Nothing surprises me anymore.

We are living inside an improv show performed by unhealed children in grown-up bodies.
A global circus where the emotionally blind applaud loudest.

And Elon — with his massive IQ and microscopic EQ — is right there in the front row, clapping and reposting propaganda:

“Poverty is an engineering problem.”

“AI will make everyone wealthy.”

“Robots will solve inequality.”

These are delusions — the fantasies of a deeply repressed child who thinks technology can fix what emotional repression broke.

No machine can cure the human soul.

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The Circus Is Not Entertainment — It’s a Warning

People think this is politics.

It’s not.

It is the collective reenactment of childhood trauma playing out through:

• Presidents

• Priests

• Billionaires

• Tech moguls

• Young men searching for fathers

• Countries searching for saviors

This is why:

• Trump calls for executions,

• Elon spreads fantasies of robot utopias,

• Young men flock to religion,

• And violence is rising across the world.

Not because humans want to be evil.

But because humans refuse to feel their childhood wounds.

As long as that remains true, dictators will rise, religions will flourish, and democracies will fall.

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Conclusion: The Only Way Out Is Through Ourselves

When people asked Jesus how to be saved, he said:

“The kingdom is within you.”

And maybe that was the message all along — misunderstood, mistranslated, misused:

Not “go through me,”
but go through YOU.

Face your wounds.
Feel your pain.
Break your chains.

This is what I had to do.
This is what most never dare.
This is why we are here:
A country run by traumatized children,
guided by traumatized followers,
enabled by traumatized billionaires.

Until humanity has the courage to go inward,
the circus will continue.

And the tickets will always be free.