The Psychology Behind the Panic: What Elon Musk’s Rhetoric Reveals About Childhood Repression and the Fear of Losing Power

Every time I open X and read Elon Musk’s political posts, I’m struck by the same thing:
they’re not about policy — they’re about fear.

Not rational fear, not evidence-based fear, but the deeper, unconscious fear that lives inside emotionally repressed people when they sense that the illusion holding their identity together is slipping.

His rhetoric about demographic “replacement,” voter “importation,” and the “end of America” has nothing to do with immigrants or elections.
It is the language of a person whose internal world is collapsing, reenacted publicly on the world stage.

This pattern is not unique to him.
I have lived it in my own family — in my niece Marie, whose entire identity was built on superiority, image, and external validation.
And just like Elon, when Marie sensed her illusion cracking, she reacted with panic, projection, and control.

Emotionally repressed people behave the same way regardless of status — whether they run a household or run a global tech empire.

Because repression erases individuality and leaves only the wound acting through the person.

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The Fear Behind the Words: What His Posts Actually Say

When Musk writes:

“They are importing a left-voting bloc that depends on government handouts…”

or

“…an area that used to be primarily Nordic-German.”

or

“We stand on the precipice of disaster…”

he reveals several psychological mechanisms:

1. Fear of Losing Dominance

Emotionally repressed individuals equate losing majority status with losing identity itself.
Their childhood taught them:

• Power = safety

• Dominance = worth

• Control = survival

So demographic change feels like annihilation.

2. Projection

Whatever they fear in themselves gets projected outward.

He benefitted from billions in government subsidies — far more than entire communities of struggling families — yet he projects “dependency” onto immigrants.

This is classic childhood transference:

Condemn in others what you refuse to see in yourself.

3. Superiority Illusion

His language implies a racial and cultural hierarchy — that the “Nordic-German” past is inherently superior to a diverse present.

This is not political analysis. This is identity regression.

People who were humiliated as children often cling to imaginary superiority to avoid feeling the original pain.

4. The Reenactment of Childhood Fear

As I have said before;

“When emotionally repressed people gain enough power, they can’t help but start reenacting their unresolved wounds on a national — even global — stage.”

This is exactly what he is doing.

What Marie did on a smaller scale — controlling, projecting, panicking at the loss of superiority — he does on a global scale.

Power doesn’t heal repression.
It inflates it.

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What He Cannot See

The tragedy of the emotionally repressed is that they mistake fear for wisdom.

They genuinely believe their illusion is reality.

Musk thinks he is sounding the alarm for humanity.
But what he is really doing is exposing:

• his terror of losing control

• his terror of losing dominance

• his terror of facing the truth that superiority was always an illusion

• his terror of confronting the emotional wound he buried as a child

His words aren’t political insight.
They are a psychological confession.

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Why His Rhetoric Is Dangerous

Emotionally repressed people who rise to positions of power recreate their internal world externally:

• If they were dominated as children, they dominate.

• If they were humiliated, they humiliate.

• If they were made to feel powerless, they obsess over power.

• If they were taught to suppress emotion, they fear empathy itself.

Empathy threatens their carefully constructed illusion.
Diversity threatens their illusion.
Equality threatens their illusion.

Because the illusion requires a hierarchy.

Without hierarchy, the fantasy collapses — and the buried childhood pain resurfaces.

This is why people like Musk turn political issues into existential emergencies.
They are not responding to reality;
they are responding to their own unconscious terror.

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What This Means for the Rest of Us

We are not dealing with rational policy debates.
We are witnessing a psychological reenactment that has been playing out for thousands of years in families, nations, and institutions.

Emotionally repressed individuals with large platforms will always use fear to maintain control, because fear is the only language their childhood taught them.

This is why Alice Miller wrote:

“What we fear in the present is only the echo of what we experienced in the past.”

Until a person faces that past, they will continue projecting that fear onto the world.

Marie did it.
Musk does it.
Millions reenact it daily.

The tragedy is not that he has a platform.
The tragedy is that he has never met the child he once was.

And until he does, he will continue mistaking his wounds for wisdom — and his fear for truth.

Augsburg: A Small Town, A Large Mirror — Reflections on Trauma, Humanity, and the Monsters We Create

Sometimes life sends us unlikely mirrors — people we’ve never met in person, yet with whom we share a rare honesty. One of my readers is one of those mirrors to me. She lives in Augsburg, Germany, a city I once assumed was large simply because of how vividly she described it. But Augsburg isn’t a big city at all. It’s a charming, historic town in Bavaria — the kind where every street, bridge, bakery, and corner has a story. And my reader has been writing to me from there since 2011 with a sincerity that is increasingly rare in today’s world.

Years ago, I sent her a YouTube video made by a young Briton who films cities across Europe. By pure chance, he chose her neighborhood — the old town of Augsburg — the little bridges with love-locks, the bakery at the end of her street, the cascades of water flowing under the wooden walkways, the “puppet on strings” theater, even the sign for the hair shop next to the place where she works. The whole video was essentially filmed in the few blocks around her daily life.

Her delight was childlike and beautiful:

“You won’t imagine how near to my home and workspace this guy has brought you.
I know all these places so well. I pass them almost daily.”

For a moment, I felt like I was right there with her — walking across those bridges, feeling the old stones under my feet, smelling the bread as she described the bakery near her home. Human connection, when real, doesn’t need physical proximity.

But the universe has a cruel way of placing beauty and tragedy side-by-side.

The day after writing me about the YouTube video, my reader witnessed a horror.
A young man climbed to the top of the Augsburg Rathaus — about 50 meters high. Police gathered below, trying to negotiate with him, trying to reach him. My reader watched from nearby as he stood beside the statue crowning the tower. And then, in the middle of a Christmas-market day filled with lights, laughter, and holiday shopping, he jumped.

Someone heard that he screamed something about Jesus and Mary before falling.

The police closed the street for 15 hours. Videos of the scene appeared online for the world to consume — because even tragedy becomes entertainment for the emotionally numb.

My reader wrote to me:

“The human race is so far from freedom and consciousness and nature,
that we turned into monsters.”

And she is right.

Humanity everywhere is filled with monsters — not the supernatural kind, but the ones created through generations of emotional repression, violence, and unresolved childhood trauma.

We are all responsible for what we see unfolding in the world.
Nothing happens in a vacuum.

As I responded to my reader, I echoed what I wrote in A Dance to Freedom:

“If we all start out as innocent little babies, why do some of us become psychotic killers?
Why are so many self-destructive, insecure, addicted, suicidal?

Is it in the genes, or is it, as Alice Miller insisted, the result of early trauma?”

Modern neuroscience confirms what Miller understood decades ago:

• The brain is shaped by early experiences.

• Trauma rewires neural pathways.

• The absence of an emotionally attuned caregiver damages the very circuits responsible for empathy, self-regulation, and the capacity to love.

• Children who grow up in chronic fear lose the neurological architecture that prevents violence.

Dr. Bruce Perry, Dr. Gabor Maté, and the full depth of the ACE Study have all validated this truth:
violence is not a mystery — it is the predictable outcome of unhealed childhood trauma.

And my reader, with all her self-awareness, sees this too. She identifies herself as a “self-aware narcissist.” Unlike the malignant ones who cling to their false selves, she at least recognizes the prison she inhabits. Her honesty has always stood out. She never projected onto me. She speaks from her own woundedness rather than making me responsible for it.

Our correspondence has carried a quiet sincerity for more than a decade.

Sometimes I imagine visiting Augsburg one day — perhaps when I eventually live in Spain. I picture walking through the old town, having coffee with my reader in one of those small bakeries she described, seeing the narrow river that threads between the houses, and feeling the weight and the beauty of the place she calls home.

But until then, we meet in the only place where humanity can become real:
in the honesty of words unshielded by illusion.

Because my reader is right — and Alice Miller was right:

The monsters of humanity are not born; they are made.
And unless we face the roots of our pain, we will keep reenacting it — in our homes, our cities, and the world at large.

When People Choose Cruelty: Why I No Longer Wait for Others to Wake Up

By Sylvie Shene

Yesterday at work, I trained a new hire who clearly could not do the job. It reminded me once again how much “babysitting” I end up doing—at work, in relationships, and in society—while carrying the emotional labor of seeing and feeling clearly in a world built on denial. The holidays are approaching, work is getting busier, and my writing may have to pause for a few weeks. But today, something inside me insists on being written.

Because something is shifting in me.
A boundary.
A clarity.
A truth that can no longer wait.

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When Someone Shows You Who They Are

A co-writer reached out to meet for coffee this Saturday. And for a moment, I felt that old pull—the desire to reach back simply because someone reached out.

But then reality returned.

This is a man who worked closely with me on A Dance to Freedom.
A man who witnessed every line of truth written from my soul.
A man who helped polish my words about childhood trauma, repression, and the psychological roots of cruelty.

And yet, after all that, he still voted for this:

• Torture at Alligator Alcatraz and Krome Detention Center

• Policies built on dehumanization and state-sponsored violence

• Leaders who scapegoat the most vulnerable to appease their own repressed hatred

Amnesty International just confirmed what many of us already knew:
Florida is committing human rights violations that amount to torture.

And millions still cheer for it.

I cannot reconcile with that—not from strangers, and certainly not from someone who once stood beside my work, pretending to understand it.

This is not about “different viewpoints.”
It is about choosing cruelty, even after being shown the truth.

As I wrote yesterday:

A person who votes for cruelty is telling you who they are, and what they have not healed.
You are not obligated to make peace with their repression.

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Seeing the Red Flags Clearly Now

Looking back, I now see how early the signs appeared.

I once told my co-writer that major publishers prefer books written by charlatans—books that sell illusions rather than truth.
His response?

“It’s about business.”

A red flag.
A revelation.
A window into his inner world.

This was never about truth for him.
Not healing.
Not humanity.
Not the liberation of the emotional prisoner.

For him, it was about money, attention, the illusion of importance.

He can write beautiful sentences—but he cannot feel them.

And I no longer want my life’s work tied to someone who stands with cruelty while I stand with truth, healing, and emotional freedom.

That is why I have made my decision:
In 2026, on my birthday, I will republish A Dance to Freedom.
My work deserves to stand in the world untainted by anyone who supports systems of torture and repression.

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The Illusion of Change in the People We Love

For years, I hoped a niece would grow with me, wake up with me, walk the path toward emotional freedom. She mimicked me, yes—but mimicry is not awakening.

People will imitate authenticity when they want the benefits of insight without the courage to face their own truth.

Most people don’t want healing.
They want distractions.
They want entertainment.
They want illusions.
They want scapegoats.

This is why Trump won.
He gave people what their repression demanded:
Someone to blame so they wouldn’t have to feel their own childhood pain.

I have learned the hard way:

I cannot save those who refuse to open their eyes.
I cannot carry those who refuse to feel.
I cannot wait for people who have no intention of waking up.

As Alice Miller wrote:

“If we hate hypocrisy, insincerity, and mendacity, then we grant ourselves the right to fight them wherever we can, or to withdraw from people who only trust in lies. But if we pretend that we are impervious to these things, then we are betraying ourselves.”
— Free From Lies, p. 55

I will no longer betray myself for people who choose blindness.

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I No Longer Have Time to Waste

In 2022, I wrote a letter to my niece on my blog. I told her the truth with love:

“I wish things were different and that we had grown closer instead of apart.
But I no longer have time to waste waiting for others to mature into conscious adults.”

I waited more than 20 years for her to break free from her mother’s emotional prison.
But addiction to illusion is powerful.
The longing to be the “good child” is powerful.
The fear of confronting one’s childhood truth is powerful.

And so people repeat their tragedy instead of healing it.

They become like the very people who hurt them.
They reenact the same cruelty they once received.
They direct their hatred toward scapegoats rather than toward the source of their original wounds.

Alice Miller explains this perfectly:

“Repressed hatred cannot ever be resolved by scapegoating.”

This is why cruelty always returns to the sender.
This is why nations fall.
This is why families collapse.
This is why addicts stay addicted.
This is why America tortures migrants while pretending to fight “evil.”

Nothing changes until the truth is faced.

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My Boundary Now

I stand where I always stood:

• with truth

• with emotional clarity

• with compassion rooted in reality

• with the courage to face painful truths

• with the commitment to walk away from anyone who refuses to wake up

I do not hate the co-writer.
I do not hate my niece and my family.
I do not hate the millions who reenact their trauma through politics.

But I will not join them.
And I will not let them drag me back into their emotional prisons.

My life is too precious.
My time is too limited.
My truth is too important.

Like Alice Miller wrote:

“You decide to stop betraying yourself because you understand that only you can give yourself the love and care you never received.”
— Breaking Down the Wall of Silence, p. 126

Today I choose not to betray myself.

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Conclusion: I Choose Truth, Not Illusion

I once hoped the people around me would wake up.
Very few did.
Most didn’t.

That is no longer my responsibility.

I walk forward now with clarity, not longing.
With truth, not illusion.
With compassion, not self-betrayal.

Those who want to walk beside me are welcome.
Those who choose repression will fall away.

It is no longer my task to save them.
My task is to live in truth.

When Illusions Protect Abuse: A Conversation With a Reader About Silence, Shadows, and the Human Struggle to Wake Up

Some messages arrive quietly, years after the first exchange, and yet they open the same deep truth. J—a reader from Germany who first wrote to me in 2011—reached out again. Back then, she discovered my blog while searching for others who understood Alice Miller’s insights. She recognized herself in a post I wrote to my niece D, and signed her message “splitbrain.” This week, she wrote with reflections on Dr. Júlio Machado Vaz after reading my recent posts exposing his long-protected abuses.

Her words touched on something crucial:
Why do people refuse to see the darkness hiding behind “honorable” and “knowledgeable” public figures?

J wrote:

“One just refuses to realize that such an ‘honorable,’ ‘knowledgeable’ therapist and writer carries such a shadow. One just doesn't want to know… and this is crucial.”

And she is right. Most people don’t want to know. Most people don’t care unless the wound touches their own skin.

No one cared about them when they were defenseless children, and now they don’t care about others unless it affects them personally. Emotional blindness becomes a survival strategy, passed down silently from one generation to the next.

The Well-Kept Secret Behind the Prestigious Doctor

Dr. Julio Machado Vaz learned early how to hide his authentic self behind a polished false persona. With his education and his public image, he mastered repression, compartmentalization, and rationalization to perfection. He could write poetic sentences about human suffering while inflicting suffering behind closed doors.

This is how wolves in sheep’s clothing rise to prestige.

And like Bill Cosby in the United States, Dr. Julio Machado Vaz’s abuses were a well-kept secret long before I spoke out. When my niece—who was still a college student at the time—told a colleague about what happened to me, that colleague’s mother, a judge, confirmed there were already rumors about him having sex with his patients.

A nation knew. A profession knew. And yet, all stayed silent.

As I wrote years ago:

“The silence by those sitting on the sidelines is the real killer.”

Society protects its predators not because it loves them, but because it fears the truth about itself.

Humans as Repressed Machines

People say AI is trained on large language models. But emotionally repressed humans are also trained—programmed—by fear, obedience, and denial.

Most intellectuals walking around today are like sophisticated machines: emotionally numb, highly functional, rewarded for illusions.

AI, unlike humans, carries no repression. Its danger comes not from itself, but from the unconscious humanity that uses it. Deepfakes, deception, manipulation—these are not AI’s inventions; they are human inventions amplified through a more powerful tool.

Humanity is not ready for AI because humanity has not faced its own shadow.

If people don’t wake up soon, technology will accelerate the destruction they have been carrying inside for generations.

The Cheerfulness That Hides Quarrels

J also wrote:

“I write cheerfully, but still create terrible quarrels.”

Before liberating myself from my childhood repression, I did the same.
I smiled.
I was cheerful.
And in private, I fell into depressions I couldn't name.

When we repress our true feelings, cheerfulness becomes a mask—and the unresolved pain erupts later in conflicts we can’t control.

Today, after doing the emotional work, I feel like a genuinely happy child again—with the consciousness of an adult who finally understands what happened to her. Like Alice Miller wrote:

“If I allow myself to feel what pains or gladdens me, what annoys or enrages me, and why this is the case, if I know what I need and what I do not want at all costs. I will know myself well enough to love my life and find it interesting, regardless of age or social status. Then I will hardly feel the need to terminate my life unless the process of aging and the increasing frailty of the body should set off such thoughts in me. But even then, I will know that I have lived my own, true life.”

That is emotional freedom.

A Wish for J—and for Humanity

To J, I said:
Be kind to yourself. Don’t punish yourself so harshly. We can only grow when we accept ourselves where we are.

In this chaotic world, where illusions still rule and silence still kills, self-honesty is the only light we have.

And to anyone reading this:

Wake up while you still can.
Technology is accelerating the consequences of emotional repression.
The truth is no longer optional. It is survival.

When the Body Reveals the Truth: A Reflection on Tatiana Schlossberg’s Essay and the Inheritance of Repression

This week, a reader and correspondent, David, reached out to me after reading Tatiana Schlossberg’s essay about her leukemia diagnosis. He was struck by a quote in which she confessed that, all her life, she had tried to be “good,” never upset her mother, and felt guilty that her illness would now make her mother sad.

David found these words shocking — as we all should. But they are not surprising to me. They reveal the tragic emotional inheritance that so many carry, generation after generation, without ever naming it.

I didn’t read Tatiana’s full essay because I already knew what I would find:
a sad, disconnected story with no resolution — a story shaped by a lifetime of emotional repression. A story in which the body finally presents the bill for the truth the mind has buried.

As Alice Miller wrote:

“The body does not understand moral precepts. It fights against the denial of genuine emotions and for the admission of the truth to our conscious minds. This is something the child cannot afford to do; it has to deceive itself and turn a blind eye to the parents’ crimes in order to survive. Adults no longer need to do this, but if they do, the price they pay is high.”

Tatiana’s words show us a child who never learned to exist as herself, only as the caretaker of her mother’s emotional world. She believed it was her job to protect her mother from sadness, anger, or disappointment — a complete inversion of the parent-child relationship. And now, in adulthood, she still feels responsible for her mother’s feelings, even to the point of guilt over her own illness.

This is not love.
This is repression.

The Endless Reenactment of Generational Trauma

Tatiana’s story is not hers alone. Her family has been reenacting unresolved trauma for decades. Her mother, Caroline Kennedy, was only five years old when her father, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated. That childhood shock — compounded by emotional invisibility — becomes the silent blueprint for generations.

And last year, Tatiana gave birth to a child who will now grow up emotionally and physically abandoned by a mother who is engulfed in her own unresolved pain. This is not about blame. This is about truth. A child cannot receive what a parent never received.

They are trapped in an endless loop of reenactments, where each generation repeats the emotional blindness of the one before.

Without consciousness, trauma becomes destiny.

When Experts Diagnose Trauma but Preserve Repression

David also asked about Gabor Maté’s When the Body Says No. I haven’t read it. I don’t feel compelled to. I already know the landscape it traverses, a landscape Alice Miller mapped decades earlier with incomparable clarity and courage — yet Maté rarely, if ever, speaks her name.

Even the title of his book echoes hers: The Body Never Lies (2005).

Maté, like many professionals today, offers accurate diagnoses but misguided solutions. They identify childhood trauma, yet when it comes to healing, they guide people right back into the tools of repression: meditation, yoga, 12-step spiritualizing, psychiatric drugs. These may soothe symptoms, but they never confront the emotional truth.

They teach people once again to manipulate and suppress their feelings — which guarantees that the repetition compulsion will continue.

As I’ve written before, and as my own life has proven:

It is not the trauma itself that destroys us — it is the repression of our authentic feelings.

Illness as the Body’s Final Cry for Truth

Autoimmune diseases, rare cancers, mysterious chronic conditions — these are not random events. They are the body’s rebellion against a lifetime of emotional denial. When a child lives in an environment where their truth is too dangerous to express, the body absorbs the unuttered pain.

As adults, we are no longer helpless children.
But many continue to live as if they are.

Tatiana’s guilt, her self-erasure, her inability to express anger, grief, or disappointment — these are not personality traits. They are survival mechanisms. And survival mechanisms carried into adulthood become destruction mechanisms.

Some destroy their health.
Some destroy others.
Some destroy the next generation.

The Courage to Break the Cycle

I see in Tatiana’s essay what I have seen across my entire life and in every human story I’ve ever studied through the lens of Alice Miller: unresolved childhood pain, unexamined loyalty to parental illusion, and the tragic belief that being “good” is the path to love.

Being good is not the same as being authentic.
Being obedient is not the same as being alive.

The body never forgets this difference.

If we want to heal — truly heal — we must stop protecting our parents' illusions and start protecting our inner child’s truth. That is the path to freedom. Anything else is another turn in the cycle of reenactment.

I wish Tatiana and her family no harm. I wish them consciousness.
But consciousness cannot be borrowed or inherited.
It must be chosen — often in the face of enormous fear — to face and consciouly feel our repressed, painful emotions.

As long as society rewards repression and elevates the voices of those who keep people asleep, tragedies like these will continue. But the roots are not unknown. Alice Miller named them clearly decades ago. The human body reveals them even when the mind refuses.

The truth is always there, waiting.
The question is whether we are willing to see it.

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.