The Final Grift
How Spiritual Deconstruction Fuels Technocratic Control
(Note: this is just a reproduction of the original X article I posted March 25th, you can find a link to that article here. In fact I appear to be largely throttled on that site so if you like the article and could retweet I would be grateful.)
You may think propaganda only comes in the form of public health mandates, mainstream news, or ESG talking points. But some of the most potent manipulation of the modern mind doesn’t wear a white coat or speak with bureaucratic jargon. It wears beads, talks about energy, and hosts YouTube interviews with names like "Gnostic Informant" or "MythVision."
This is what I call the final grift: the commodification of spiritual skepticism, disguised as intellectual awakening, that strips people of deeper meaning and leaves them disarmed in the face of authoritarian systems.
The Video That Sparked This
A friend of mine—a sharp guy, culturally Jewish, philosophically an atheist with mystical leanings—shared a video titled something like:
“How Christianity Took Over the Roman Empire: Not by Faith, But by Force.”
It featured self-styled "truth seekers" unpacking the early church's supposed lies, political ambitions, and myth-making. The description read like clickbait:
"Did Christianity win through faith and martyrdom, or by suppressing pagan religions?"
This isn’t just historical revisionism. It’s a spiritual sales pitch. The message is clear: don’t trust what your ancestors believed; trust us instead. We have the real story. Buy in.
And what are they really selling? Disenchantment. Rootlessness. A vision of history in which no one believed anything real—they were just pawns in imperial chess games.
From Rome to Reddit: Manufactured Doubt as a Lifestyle
In another era, religion was attacked for being too authoritarian. Today, it’s attacked for being too sincere.
These new prophets of reason don't offer clarity—they offer endless suspicion. They deconstruct, but never reconstruct. They scoff at metaphysics but have no coherent ethical or ontological alternative to offer.
What fills the vacuum? The same thing that always does:
Commoditized spirituality
Algorithmic conformity
Psychological atomization
It's not a coincidence. Once you hollow out tradition, you leave people vulnerable to new forms of control.
Why It Matters Now
Since March 2020, the world has been subjected to what can only be described as a technocratic initiation ritual:
Obey authority.
Reject your senses.
Mistrust your neighbor.
Inject meaning into your body from approved sources only.
If you were grounded in a spiritual tradition, you likely saw the incoherence and manipulation for what it was. But if your worldview is built on deconstruction and irony, you may have applauded it.
This is why these seemingly innocent "myth-busting" videos matter: they prepare people to accept control by stripping them of the spiritual antibodies that resist it.
The Structure Beneath the Surface
Just as we've dissected the way the medical-industrial complex captured regulatory agencies, we need to look at how spiritual disintegration has been industrialized too:
Rockefeller-funded medical schools rewrote the definition of health.
The Gates Foundation rewrote the definition of global well-being.
And YouTube gurus now rewrite the definition of spiritual truth.
In each case, the result is the same: you outsource your discernment to a credentialed class, and you’re told that the past was a lie—but they have the real story now.
The Small Gods and the Big Lie
This is how we get to the theology of the technocratic age: a patchwork of flattened myths, weaponized relativism, and disembodied dogma. It’s the gospel of the algorithm. It promises liberation from tradition, but delivers obedience to trend.
It whispers:
“Don’t believe in Christ. Believe in consensus.”
“Don’t follow the Logos. Follow the Data.”
These are the small gods: the ones who promise you freedom but demand your passivity. Who offer knowledge but punish discernment. Who sell you novelty and call it truth.
Why This Hits Close to Home
I wasn’t raised to be a zealot. I was brought up Roman Catholic, but drifted from it. What brought me back wasn’t a mystical experience—it was watching the secular world implode under the weight of its own contradictions.
The events of 2020 didn't just break my trust in institutions—they revealed a deep hunger for meaning that no technocrat, no myth-debunker, and no false prophet can ever fill.
And now I see it clearly: every time I hear someone smugly sneer about Christianity's rise to power, I see another person unwittingly playing into a world order that hates faith, hates beauty, and hates the very idea of objective Truth.
Final Word
This isn’t just about a video. It’s about a pattern.
We are in a spiritual war. The battleground isn’t just medicine or politics. It’s meaning.
If we don’t defend the idea that some things are sacred, some truths transcendent, and some traditions worth preserving, then we leave the door wide open for every grifter, globalist, and algorithm to define reality for us.
So to my friend, and to anyone else caught in the shiny trap of spiritual skepticism: I get it. I really do. But if you care about truth, freedom, and human dignity, maybe it’s time to start questioning the people who tell you to question everything except them.
Discernment isn't about rejecting faith. It's about knowing where to place it.