Some of us were built to see through government lies
Most people stay trapped in the system that raised them. I didn’t. Here’s why I saw through government lies, and why I’ll never bow to state control.
Most people never escape the system that raised them.
Not the one with barbed wire and labor camps; the more subtle one. The system of invisible fences, moral bribery, emotional blackmail, and narratives passed off as “truth.” The kind that tells you: Obey, conform, vote, comply, go to school, get the credential, pay your taxes, be grateful, then die.
Some people never question it, and others fight like hell to escape it.
The real question is: Why do some people, like me, see through it in the first place?
I was born with an allergy to coercion
Even before I had words for it, something in me resisted being told what to do, especially by people who didn’t earn the right to lead.
I wasn’t a rebel for the sake of rebellion. I just knew something was off, almost like Neo in The Matrix.
I knew teachers didn’t really want you to think, even if they thought they had pure intentions. I also knew politicians didn’t really care, and that obedience was a currency used to buy temporary comfort.
And I refused to trade.
The system called that defiance, but I called it instinct.
I saw patterns they didn’t want me to see and still do
I noticed the way schools conditioned us to obey bells like factory workers, and how every crisis led to more government control. I saw how political parties swapped slogans, but the outcome stayed the same: More war, more spending, more surveillance, more debt, and more lies.
I noticed how dependency was always dressed up as compassion, and how dissent was framed as selfish or dangerous. I saw it, and I remembered it.
The matrix glitched, and I caught it.
I found the “forbidden books”
I didn’t even know what I was looking for at first. But then I crossed Economics in One Lesson. Then Chaos Theory, What Has Government Done to Our Money, Revolution: A Manifesto, War is a Racket, and Anatomy of the State. Suddenly, the fog lifted.
These books were keys, and the door had been in front of me the whole time.
Once I saw the world through the lens of natural rights, individual sovereignty, and decentralization, I couldn’t go back to pretending the system was benevolent.
I crossed the point of no return.
I let myself feel betrayal
Most people can’t handle the dissonance. We can’t all be like Morpheus, after all.
“If the state lied to me, my teachers lied. If the schools failed me, my parents were complicit. If the war was unjust, then my patriotism was exploited.”
It’s a hard thing to sit with.
But I did.
I didn’t flinch, and I didn’t hide behind cynicism or apathy. I let the illusion burn, and what emerged was something stronger: clarity.
This is where most people turn back, but I didn’t.
I ultimately chose reflection over bitterness
Pain can wake you up, but it doesn’t always make you wise.
Lots of people let the system screw them. They lose jobs, get fined, get audited, and watch loved ones suffer in the hands of bureaucrats or bad laws.
Some become bitter. Others become statists with a vengeance, hoping their side will do it better.
But I chose a third path: I asked why this system exists in the first place, and what would happen if we built something that didn’t require force to function.
That was the beginning of real freedom.
I realized something bigger and better than government exists
I neither became a nihilist nor did I descend into chaos.
I believe in something the state can’t give or take away:
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Truth that isn’t up for vote.
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Freedom that doesn’t require permission.
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Responsibility without coercion.
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Voluntary order, local decisions, and earned respect.
I believe in the sovereignty of the individual, not the illusion of collective salvation.
I listened to government lies…then I listened to my soul
The real reason I saw through it? Because I listened when I wasn’t supposed to. I listened to my doubts, my anger, and to the little voice inside that said, This isn’t right.
And then I stopped listening to them: The government lies. You know, the experts, bureaucrats, fearmongers, the scripted morality, and the institutions telling me who I was and what I owed.
I stopped, and I listened to truth instead. Even when it hurt and it meant walking alone.
Because real freedom doesn’t come from escape alone. It comes from reclaiming your mind. And once you’ve done that, there’s no going back. It’s what Kaija Jokiharju learns in my dark paranormal fantasy series, Catenarian Chronicles.
Kaija’s a girl who listens to her soul as opposed to government bureaucrats. And the closer she listens and looks inward, the more she navigates through the B.S. Even when it hurts. Meet her in Book I, Cursed Mage. Get the book directly, and save over 20 percent off its price at other outlets.
