Why Every System Is a Lie Built on Top of Another Lie

Introduction: The Cracks in the Foundation If truth is a foundation, then everything we live in was built on sand. Look around—what you thought was solid turns out to be hollow when you knock on it. Our institutions are facades, propped up by tradition, authority, and repetition. But behind the curtain, it’s deception all the way down.

Every system you were taught to trust—education, money, food, media, healthcare, governance—is a neatly packaged illusion. Worse, each one reinforces the next, like scaffolding made of lies. The result? A world that looks stable but trembles beneath your feet.

Section 1: The Comfort of Control (Why Systems Exist) Humans crave structure. We want to believe there’s a plan, that someone’s steering the ship. So we built systems—schools to educate us, banks to safeguard us, governments to protect us. But over time, these systems stopped serving us and started managing us.

The illusion of structure is intoxicating. It tells you, “You’re safe because there are rules.” But when the rules only benefit those who wrote them? That’s not order—that’s control dressed up as guidance.

Section 2: A Tower of Lies (Examples Across the Spectrum) Let’s pull back the curtain:

Education: Memorize, repeat, forget. Critical thinking gets sidelined for standardized testing. U.S. students now spend up to 25% of the school year preparing for standardized tests (National Education Association, 2023). Meanwhile, essential skills like financial literacy and creative thinking are often left out of the curriculum.

Money: The fiat system is faith-based theater. Since the 1971 Nixon Shock removed the gold standard, U.S. dollars are backed by nothing but promises. Inflation has averaged 3.8% annually since then (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024), eroding your purchasing power year after year. This isn’t a bug—it’s the system working as intended.

Healthcare/Pharma: We call it healthcare, but it’s sick-care at best. The U.S. spends $4.5 trillion annually on healthcare (CMS, 2023), yet chronic diseases like diabetes continue to rise. Pharmaceutical companies now fund 75% of the FDA’s drug review budget (ProPublica, 2018). Prevention rarely makes headlines—because it rarely makes money.

Food Industry: The food pyramid was never about health. It was about lobbying. USDA records show heavy grain industry influence in shaping guidelines. The result? Promotion of low-fat, high-carb diets while sugar skated by. Now, obesity affects over 42% of Americans (CDC, 2022).

Media: The fourth estate became the first enforcer. Six corporations now control 90% of U.S. media (Business Insider, 2020), narrowing the spectrum of thought. Sensationalism is the algorithmic king. Polarizing content gets 10x more engagement than neutral posts (X internal data, 2024).

Each of these lies props up the others, forming a tangled mess of co-dependence. A gray fog that blurs the line between what’s real and what’s sold.

Section 3: The Gray Fog (Living in the In-Between) Ever get that gut feeling that something’s off, but you can’t quite explain it? That’s the gray.

The gray is engineered ambiguity. It’s when everything is nuanced but nothing is clear. It’s the space where people stop questioning, because the answers are too muddy to chase. It’s the dull hum of a world designed to sedate your instincts.

You’re told you’re free—so why does everything feel like a choice between bad and worse?

Section 4: Building on Truth (What It Actually Looks Like) Truth isn’t glamorous. It doesn’t come with a press release. It’s simple, transparent, and often uncomfortable. That’s how you know it’s real.

Bitcoin is a truth-layer. It doesn’t need your permission or your belief. It doesn’t beg for trust—it earns it through code, math, and proof. Anyone can verify it. That’s why it's revolutionary. Yes, it consumes about 0.4% of global electricity (Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, 2024), but it replaces the need for armies of middlemen, endless bureaucracy, and centralized corruption.

The same goes for fasting, for self-education, for facing your own shadow in meditation. These aren’t comfortable systems—they’re truthful ones. They don’t pamper your illusions. They challenge your reality.

To build on truth is to risk rejection. But it’s also the only way to create something that lasts.

Conclusion: Tear It Down, Build It Right These systems aren’t broken—they’re functioning exactly as they were designed to. To trap, to distract, to extract.

So stop trying to fix what was never meant to serve you. Let the house of cards fall. Let the sand wash away. And when the dust settles, build something that doesn’t need lies to stand.

Build on truth. Let the lies collapse. Reclaim your mind. Reclaim your world.

Tick tock, next block.