Don’t Let the Empire Gaslight You into Believing You Are Powerless

Don’t let the empire gaslight you into believing you are powerless and helpless. There are always actions you can do to make you heard and improve your life.

It’s so easy to fall into the trap of believing there’s nothing we can do. Nothing we can do to fight the machine because it’s too large and entrenched, and nothing we can do to transform our own personal circumstances because the deck is stacked so unfairly against ordinary people.

It’s a strong illusion because at a surface glance it appears to be true. Our political systems are locked down by the rich and powerful to ensure that our votes don’t inconvenience them in any way, and any new political movement which challenges establishment power structures will find itself facing sabotage from the outside and from within. Our voices are kept marginalized and our countrymen have been turned into inept empire automatons by a lifetime of propaganda indoctrination.

And at first glance we appear to be just as powerless in our personal lives as well. Unless you’re lucky enough to have obtained some capital which you can use to open a successful business, or possess some special aptitude that our system values, you can spend your whole life struggling in poverty. The life of a worker is getting harder and harder, and it’s easy to feel like there’s nothing you can do about your own unhappiness and psychological distress because you’re labouring under a system that’s so abusive and unfair.

So while it is true that there are many doors that are closed to a person of our dystopia, that doesn’t mean you are powerless to transform the situation. Believing that you are powerless serves no one but the powerful.

We are never truly powerless unless we choose to be so. As a collective we have the power to inform and educate the public, to help them understand that they’ve been deceived their whole lives about our society, and that a better world is both needed and possible. As persons we have the ability to do inner work to heal our suffering and liberate ourselves from the chains of ego, which will have radically transformative effects on our quality of life in a whole host of ways.

There is nothing our rulers can do to take these abilities away from us. We will always have the ability to do something to help awaken the people to the need for societal transformation, and we will always have the ability to heal our inner wounds. Every single day there are concrete actions we can take toward both of these ends.

It serves nobody but the powerful to believe there’s nothing we can do to ignite transformation. Too many socialists are content to just sit around smugly knowing better than everyone else and having all the correct opinions about everything while expressing distain for everyone who tries to expand awareness or make the world a better place. Get active in your community. Use your discernment to filter the information in alternative media and share whatever may be helpful and beneficial for the ones around you. Make Godly inspired art. Have heartful conversations. Help transform points of view for the better. Open some eyes. Wake people up, with discernment and common sense, so that one day there will be enough of us to ignite real transformation.

It serves nobody but the powerful to believe you are doomed to a life of misery. Too many socialists are content to blame all their internal dysfunction on the abuses of capitalism and just spend their days complacent in their inner wounds, in meetings and online, without doing the adequate spiritual inner work necessary to come to inner peace.

Get curious about your internal processes. Research the many modalities for inner healing that are available. Listen to the brilliant sages who’ve been sharing groundbreaking new insights about inner spiritual work. Read the Godly inspired texts which acknowledge that spiritual enlightenment is a real phenomenon that is entirely achievable by human beings. Take responsibility for your own inner wellbeing, and start doing the adequate and beneficial actions towards it.

We don’t need to sit around paralyzed by power-serving learned helplessness. We don’t need to sit idly by waiting for some ‘deus ex machina’ resolution to our plight. We don’t need to resign ourselves to a life of suffering and making the same mistakes over and over again because we’re being whipped about by unconscious forces within us that we’ve never taken the time to investigate.

There is always something we can do. We may not be able to do extremely much from the start, but we can always start to do something. There’s no good reason not to do that beneficial effort we can do, every single day of our lives.

yogaesoteric
December 13, 2025