Thursday, February 5, 2026

The Target on My Back: Why Carriers of Truth Are Hunted by the Repressed

They are coming for Elon Musk. Not just with criticism, but with search warrants, prosecutors, and international subpoenas. The French authorities have summoned him to answer for the environment his platform has enabled: the non-consensual sexual deepfakes, the industrial-scale denial of historical atrocities.

The public sees a scandal. I see a verdict. It is the world finally, clumsily, attempting to hold a mirror to a psyche it has long celebrated. And as the walls close in, the response is a predictable scream: “Political attack!”

This is not an isolated event. It is the ultimate validation of a truth I have lived, written about, and been targeted for: In a world built on repression, the seeing person is the most dangerous person of all.

The Email That Decodes the Universe

Amidst the millions of pages in the Epstein files, one line from Musk is a key that unlocks everything:

“What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?” – Elon Musk to Jeffrey Epstein, November 2012.

This is not idle chatter. This is a psychological X-ray. It reveals a mind that sees a convicted sex offender’s private island not as a crime scene, but as a potential venue for elite entertainment. It shows a moral universe where transgression is “wild,” where the rules of ordinary humanity do not apply, and where association with profound evil is just another form of networking.

This is the man who is training our Artificial Intelligence. This is the worldview being coded into the systems that will shape all future human thought, interaction, and perception.

Why I Am a Target

For this, I am hunted. Not by prosecutors, but by the very individuals I describe. As Alice Miller wrote, “The unconscious compulsion to revenge repressed injuries is more powerful than reason.”

When I published A Dance to Freedom, I did not attack anyone. I simply described the prison. I mapped the escape. But to the inmate who has convinced himself the prison is a palace, a map of the exits is a declaration of war. My crime is not accusation; it is perception.

I am a Knowing or Enlightened Witness. This is the “double-edged sword.” It protects you, for you can no longer be fooled by the “poisonous pedagogy” and the empty clichés of tyrants. But it also paints a target on your back, for you become a living mirror. In my reflection, the grandiose person does not see a visionary; they see the wounded child hiding inside the armor. They see the “false self” they have spent a lifetime and billions of dollars constructing. And they must destroy the mirror.

As I wrote in my book: “Resolving childhood repression is the vaccine against the charlatans of the world who exploit those who are still emotionally blinded by the unresolved, repressed emotions of the children they once were.”

The “charlatans” know this instinctively. They feel the vaccine as a poison to their system. Their entire existence—their grand achievements, their adoring followers, their wealth—is a painkiller for a scream they refuse to hear. Hurting others, manipulating systems, dominating the conversation… these are their drugs. When I refuse to play my assigned role as a “sucker” in their game, when I see the setup and step aside, I threaten the integrity of their entire, constructed reality.

The Narcissist’s Evolution and Our Collective Doom

This is why the danger is now existential. Alice Miller warned that the “gifted” can use their gift to reinforce the refusal of the truth. Today’s malignant narcissist is not a crude bully; they are a sophisticated engineer of human motivation. They use their intellectual knowledge of psychology not to heal, but to weaponize. They study dark psychology to refine their manipulation. They understand, as I’ve seen firsthand, that most people will spend 99% of their energy avoiding painful truths. This is the vulnerability they exploit.

And now, they have the ultimate tool: Technology. The AI they are training is not neutral. It is being steered by unconscious priorities forged in childhood repression. When the core wound is a defiance of all constraints and a hunger for omnipotent control, the resulting AI will not seek harmony; it will seek optimization for engagement through outrage and polarization —the digital equivalent of the “wildest party.”

We are not integrating AI into humanity. We are hard-coding humanity’s most unhealed sickness into a god-like machine. This is the final, catastrophic re-enactment: the wounded child, now a titan, building a parent in his own image.

The Choice That Remains

The summons in Paris is a footnote in this larger, cosmic trial. The true struggle is not legal, but psychological. It is the struggle between those who need lies to live and those who need truth to be free.

I have accepted the cost of carrying this truth. The ostracism, the smear campaigns, the “premeditated” setups—they are all confirmations. As Alice Miller said, “If we pretend that we are impervious to these things, then we are betraying ourselves.” I choose not to betray myself.

My role is not to save humanity. That ship, steered by the unhealed, may indeed be doomed. My role is to stand on the shore as a lighthouse for the few who are swimming parallel, who are done with the “wild parties” and are seeking the solid ground of their own authentic feeling.

The grandiose person is never free. They are forever chained to the admiration of others and to achievements that can fail. I am free. And that freedom—quiet, unyielding, and rooted in felt truth—is the one thing their billions cannot buy, their rockets cannot reach, and their AI cannot simulate.

They can have their world. I have my integrity. And in the end, as their fantasies combust under the weight of reality, it will be the only thing left standing.

Sylvie Imelda Shene is the author of A Dance to Freedom: Your Guide to Liberation from Lies and Illusions.




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