"...there always has been a small, hard core of men who have been, and still are, Illuminists or Atheists."

"Their only concern is to gain greater economic and political power."

In this they demonstrate hubris. When I consider the universe, or even just my home, I am immediately struck by my lack of competence to understand anything in toto. It is relatively easy to grasp that water gaining egress to the structure of a dwelling facilitates rot, and to then seek to create an unyielding envelope to prevent such egress. It is then easy to dismiss the myriad ways in which water acts on a structure to weaken it, whether rusting fasteners or welcoming insects and fungi to dwell within it. These failures of understanding then cause many to neglect securing the envelope of their home from water, because they don't know most bugs can only eat wood if it's wet.

In managing civilization, similar deficits of understanding become relevant, and the hubris of them that have mastered accumulating fiat leads them to neglect that money isn't actually wealth, and there are an increasing number of people that dodge taxes through avoiding fiat, while accumulating actual wealth. I think this continues to be unrecognized by moneymasters, who only see a rate of success and failure and then undertake to make money more able to victimize, rather than less, which would draw in more of them that eschew it.

Increasingly, the truism that independent means is the best definition of wealth becomes ever easier to demonstrate as means of production increasingly decentralize. The necessity of working for a corporation that pooled capital to fund collective industrial production is less true today than it has been since the Stone Age. Despite massive censorship, I have learned of Dr. Simon Goddek, who grows his own food and creates his own power and fuel deep in the Amazon jungle, and of a crusty old deer hunter that manufactured his own civil war cannon which he used to hunt whitetail.

The reality is that civilization is transcending a clinal boundary, and the blatantly apparent flaws of the legacy financial system that will destroy it are best avoided by using that system to redeploy assets as above indicated, to gain means of production that create wealth without creating dependence on fiat. Make fuel, rather than earning money to buy fuel, and the price of fuel won't matter to you.

When the hubris of them uncomprehending of the reality of wealth being means of production of goods and services, rather than money to buy goods and services with, leg sweeps that Machiavellian ilk intending to enslave us with CBDCs, because when billions of people refuse to accept CBDCs and remain availed of the blessings of civilization, we will see the rapid self-destruction of the moneymasters as they compete with one another for control of money, while free people will create ever more prosperous civil society without money at all.

Money is a service that facilitates commerce, and only the centralization of industry that depended on commerce created the false appearance that money was wealth. As automation and decentralization of production replace commerce, money will lose relevance and the more toxic dependence on money becomes the more rapidly it will be eschewed. As moneymasters only have expertise in acquiring and controlling money, they will be as clueless about actual wealth creation as homeowners are powder post beetles.

Thanks!