Patrick Peace

Hopefully this explains what we’re all going through and witnessing happening in the world right now. **How Do We Get Out of the Cycle?** People tell me trauma ruined me. It didn't. It gave me a gift: I recognize patterns. That's the highest form of intelligence there is, and once you've lived through evil, you spot it fast, no matter what suit it's wearing. Look at the pattern. The UN gives us 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and on paper they look beautiful. Who's against ending poverty? Who's against clean water? Nobody. That's the trick. The language is bulletproof, so nobody argues with it. But the fight was never about the goals on the page. It's about who decides what counts as meeting them, and what gets pushed through in their name. Same pattern everywhere you look. Banks embedding carbon tracking into your banking app. Digital ID. Central bank digital currencies. Information throttled until fewer and fewer people ever see it. They don't want us sharing information, because shared information breaks the spell. And who is doing it? Governments. Governments are the biggest perpetrators of trauma on this planet. No individual can do what a state can do: wars, displacement, persecution, policies that starve or imprison whole populations. Behind them, the institutions operating under their cover, churches, schools, care homes, where abuse went on for decades because nobody with power stopped it. Here's the trap, and it's the reason the world is in the mess it's in: we can't hold the abusers accountable, because the abusers run the system that would hold them accountable. They run the courts. They run the investigations. They run the media that would report it. You can't report the system to the system. So the abuse continues, and everyone else is told to move on. And that leaves us with an unresolved trauma crisis on this planet, and it never ends, because unresolved trauma does something most people don't understand: it eliminates critical thinkers. A person carrying trauma they never faced has a hard time thinking critically. They react instead of thinking. And a reactive population is easy to divide, easy to frighten, easy to control. So division creates more trauma, and more trauma creates more division, and around it goes. A dangerous and divided world, forever. People ask me how we get out of the cycle. There's only one way, and it's not a policy, and it's not an election, and it's not a better set of global goals. We wrote our own goals tonight, 23 sustainable laws to eliminate government, because the answer was never more government. The answer is less of it, and more of us. The way out is to face it. One person at a time stops numbing it, looks at it honestly, and heals. A healed person can think critically again. A healed person can't be divided so easily. A healed person holds abusers accountable and refuses to live in fear. That's why I do this work. That's why I wrote the books. One person healing gives the next person permission to do the same. This isn't my first spiritual and psychological war. I know how it works. It tries to get inside your head first. It wants you afraid, because afraid people don't think, and people who don't think don't fight back. So here's my answer: be not afraid. Never be afraid of cowards. Without the dark, you'd never see the light.