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UNITED WE BARGAIN, DIVIDED WE BEG

If I wanted to weaken a society, I would not take their weapons or silence their speech. I would take their instinct to unite. I would convince them that standing alone is the highest virtue. I would tell them that needing others is failure and cooperation is compromise. I would wrap it all in the word freedom while stripping away the strongest force humans possess: unity.

The say: be your own person. Carry your own load. Do it all yourself. But humans are built for connection. Our nervous systems calm each other. Our survival has always come from groups that trust and move together. Pull a human out of that system and tell them to go solo, and you weaken them without a single sign of force.

A population that stands alone is simple to steer. They cannot organise. They cannot push back. They stay so focused on guarding their personal world that they miss the larger game being played around them. They become predictable, isolated, and too busy surviving to influence anything. Most importantly, they keep fighting each other instead of rising up against the common enemy.

If you feel powerless, it is not because you lack strength. It is because you were told to fight alone. The moment you see that lie for what it is, you start to take your power back. And when we choose to stand together again, the entire system changes.