From politics to religion, the world is full of actors playing the same old roles — seeking love, validation, and control in all the wrong places. The stage changes, the costumes vary, but the emotional script remains the same.
Watching humans on the world stage can feel like witnessing one endless performance.
A flirtatious exchange between public figures, a politician preaching morality, a priest promising salvation — it’s all the same play. None of it is real.
It’s theater. And most of humanity doesn’t even realize they’re acting.
When I saw the recent story of Erika Kirk and J.D. Vance, I didn’t see a “scandal.” I saw another reenactment. Another pair of wounded children trapped in adult bodies, still chasing attention and validation through performance. This is what happens when pain is repressed instead of felt — it turns into theater.
Every unhealed person becomes a performer, trying to fill the void left by emotional neglect. Some do it through politics, others through religion, others through romantic manipulation. But the source is always the same: the unlived, unseen pain of childhood.
Religion: The Longest-Running Play
People often ask, What’s the difference between religion and a cult?
To me, the only difference is time. All religions began as cults — one person’s fantasy elevated to collective delusion. Over time, the cult becomes respectable, ingrained in society, and protected by ritual and law.
Religion is an emotional prison, built not with bricks but with invisible reins of guilt, shame, and fear.
In different parts of the world, these prisons have different names, languages, and gods. In some, the reins are longer, giving people the illusion of freedom; in others, they’re pulled tight, strangling the soul.
But all are prisons nevertheless.
I broke free when I removed the invisible reins of guilt, shame, and fear.
I am one of the luckiest people in this world.
Why Religions Fail
People are driven by the repressed emotions of the child they once were — compelled to reenact their painful childhood dramas until they face the truth. That’s why they can never truly live the teachings of their religions. They preach love but act from fear, repeat holy words but reenact emotional cruelty.
If children are born into love and experience genuine empathy, they grow into compassionate adults.
But love cannot be taught.
This is why all religions are frauds — they sell something that cannot be sold.
Anyone preaching or teaching “love” as a doctrine is not a healer but a charlatan, profiting from humanity’s emotional blindness. True love arises naturally when we face the truth of our past, stop lying to ourselves, and walk away from those who try to confuse us with their lies, "poison".
When we free ourselves from lies — and from those who perpetuate them — we become authentic, loving adults, incapable of harming ourselves or others.
“Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts and never lies. …If the repression stays unresolved, the parents’ childhood tragedy is unconsciously continued on in their children.” — Alice Miller
“The attempt to be an ideal parent … is, in essence, an attempt to be the ideal child of one's own parents. …I cannot listen to my child with empathy if I am inwardly preoccupied with being a good mother.” — Alice Miller
“Every behavior that is directed against the health of a person … is a repetition of once-endured mistreatment, neglect, confusion, lies, betrayal, and the exploitation of the child.” — Alice Miller
“Without memories of childhood, it is as if you were doomed to drag a big box around you, though you don’t know what’s in it. And the older you get, the heavier it becomes, and the more impatient you are to finally open the thing.” — Jurek Becker
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the politicians as helpful.” — Seneca the Younger
The world doesn’t need another religion, another leader, or another script.
It needs people who dare to stop performing.
