The Programmed Disconnect: How Conditioning Has Silently Stolen Our Power

There was a time when education meant unlocking truth. Today, it feels more like training—conditioning us to obey, not to question.

Let’s start with something that seems small but is deeply symbolic: cursive writing. Once a fundamental part of childhood education, cursive is now considered obsolete. But why? When kids can’t read cursive, they can’t read the founding documents of our country. They can’t understand old land deeds, wills, or letters that hold the truth of who we are and where we come from. That’s not an accident. It’s erasure. It’s a way to separate us from our inheritance—literally and historically.

The conditioning doesn’t stop there. From the moment we enter the school system, we’re prepared for a life of compliance. Sit still. Follow instructions. Ask permission. The goal? To groom us for the 9-to-5 machine. Our creativity is stifled. Our curiosity is boxed. We’re rewarded not for thinking freely, but for thinking correctly—according to someone else’s rules.

Then there’s the issue of taxes—specifically, the 16th Amendment. It shifted the burden of taxation onto our labor. We were never supposed to be taxed on our income. Our labor is our life force. Yet here we are, paying for the privilege of surviving, while corporations gobble up the land that once made people sovereign. The land was power. Now it’s fenced off—sold, seized, hidden behind layers of legal confusion.

And while we’re distracted, something far more sinister may be happening right above our heads. Chemtrails—or what they label as “harmless condensation trails”—are being sprayed across our skies without explanation. Could they be changing the weather? Altering our health? It wouldn’t be the first time a government experimented on its people without consent. The Nazis did it in the open. Today, it’s done in silence and plausible deniability.

Even the Internet, which was sold as the great equalizer, has become a tool for control. We scroll endlessly, connected to everything but deeply disconnected from ourselves, our communities, our natural world. We share data, not truth. We chase likes, not legacy. Well what may look to be connecting between one another is now disconnected more than ever! We have no empathy for one another, not to mention what happened to a man’s word being his bond, or trying your hardest on something without needing a pat on the back.

The conditioning is complete when we forget to question it.

But here’s the thing—they only win if we stay asleep.

Teach your children cursive. Talk to your elders. Read the old documents. Walk the land. Question everything. The war isn’t always fought with bullets. Sometimes it’s fought with silence, omission, and carefully scripted obedience.

And right now, the most radical thing you can do is remember what they tried to make you forget.