[Note from TriTorch: for today’s entry Author Franklin O’Kanu has courteously agreed to write an essay on democide and menticide—two terms the majority of the world’s population have never heard, but which have had and continue to have a colossal over-sized impact on our daily lives. As we look around and find the governments of the world further and further adrift from any anchor or baseline of morality, these two ideas loom ever larger above us as our reality warps into a cartoonish carnival-ride disaster-in-uncontrolled-motion (menticide) and the floors of our lives become saturated with tears for our fallen loved ones (democide).
Franklin is a philosopher, researcher, and an astute student of the human condition. Here he provides many insights and remedies for the bleak smorgasbord of horrors that we are all collectively facing.]
The term ‘democide’ is one that the vast majority of people have never heard of. In fact, according to Google’s Ngram Viewer, which charts the frequency of words in books over time, “democide” is a very rare term, with a frequency of less than 0.000001% in 2019. Additionally, GPT4 estimates that even less than 0.1% of the American population is familiar with the term “democide.” So, if most of the population has no idea what this term is, how would they recognize it if it occurred in their country?
Democide refers to “the intentional killing of an unarmed or disarmed person by government agents acting in their authoritative capacity and pursuant to government policy or high command.” What’s interesting about the term is that it can cover a wide range of deaths, such as forced labor or extrajudicial summary killings, but it can also be mass deaths due to governmental acts of criminal omission and neglect. Understanding the term in this light is where things get interesting.
“Governmental acts of criminal omission and neglect can include withholding aid during disasters, or failing to act in situations where the government has a duty to protect its citizens.”
Ask yourself: When has your government engaged in acts of omission and neglect that have resulted in deaths? The first answer that comes to mind would be the pandemic, but if we take a step back, we can see that democide has been happening for quite some time before that. We are talking about acts from the government that have led to deaths— and we have quite a history of that occurring.
One thought that comes to mind is the 2008 bank bailout. I asked this question of GPT4, and here’s the conversation:
Me: Can Democide be financial in nature?
GPT4: Yes, democide can potentially be financial in nature. While the term “democide” traditionally refers to the murder of people by a government, it can also encompass actions that lead indirectly to death.
For instance, if a government’s policies or actions result in severe economic hardship that leads to increased poverty, malnutrition, lack of access to healthcare, and other conditions that could increase mortality rates, this could be seen as a form of democide. This is especially the case if these actions are taken with the knowledge that they will likely lead to an increase in deaths.
For More Information: Check out my article titled “The Feds Plan For Inflation Will Bring Pain For Americans” if you’re looking for a recent historical event that could be seen as democide.
To recap what we have covered so far:
We have a term, idea, or concept that most people have no idea exists (democide), and
This act isn’t black or white but can come in many forms and warrants further examination.
Even more rare than ‘democide’ is the term ‘menticide’. GPT4 also estimates that less than 0.1% of the population is familiar with it. Menticide refers to “the systematic effort to undermine and destroy a person’s or group’s mental or intellectual faculties, often through propaganda, manipulation or coercion.”
Here’s where things get really interesting: I asked GPT4 if the ideas of democide and menticide can be used together. Here’s the response I got:
GPT4: Yes, menticide can be used in conjunction with democide. Menticide, or brainwashing, is a process that can alter or control the human mind using certain psychological techniques. It can reduce a person’s ability to think critically or independently, allowing for the introduction of new, unwanted thoughts and ideas into their minds, as well as changing their attitudes, values, and beliefs. In the context of democide, a government could potentially use menticide to manipulate its population’s perception of reality, making them unaware of the atrocities being committed. This could be done through propaganda, censorship, misinformation, or other forms of psychological manipulation.
So there’s the term democide, where the country kills its citizens – either blatantly or subtly, and, two, the term menticide refers to how the government manipulates its citizens. Hence, they are unaware of the reality they are in. Now ask yourself:
This realization is the hard part: coming to terms with this truth. More than likely, we all believe that we live in this great country with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but it could not be further from the truth. The idea of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is an ideal to strive for, which was the origin of this and other great countries, but in today’s world, that is not the case. Governments have become run by political assassins who no longer care for the citizenry but rather care only for political control, upholding the political class, and overall retaining their power, and if democide can be used to maintain power, what better way to do so than by using menticide?
Once we understand this as a population, we can begin our great ascension out of the cave of lies in which we’ve found ourselves. Unfortunately, this won’t be an easy journey out of illusions, but there are steps that we can take to begin to see and walk towards the light. Here are three ideas I propose:
Know your enemy – once I concluded that this world was not as it seemed, I decided to dive deeply into history, unlearn what I was told, and learn what is out there and how the world operates. This research opened my eyes to the truths of science, governments, our society, and many more. I’ve written on these in plenty of articles, but in my book, I arrange my thoughts from A to Z to show how this world came to be. Once we know our enemy by tracing their steps, we’re that much closer to defeating them.
Know yourself – in my book, I also discuss knowing ourselves, and we need to know our strengths and resources. Our education, or better yet, indoctrination system, has gone hard to ensure that the divine nature within us, with freedom, skills, and resources, never comes to light. These resources have been buried deep beneath years of social programming and propaganda (just ask Betrand Russell). However, when we begin to awaken to the notion of the power we each have, we can start using our power to create the reality we want – one where we are no longer under the threat of democide. I’ve written the following articles to help such as: Critically Thinking Parts 1 through 3, How to Use Your Brain, and many, many more.
Know your focus – lastly, once we know who the enemy is and our strengths and resources, the next step is to use our powers and skills to create the life we want to live. This area is where I focus on the seven pillars of life. By focusing our resources on these seven pillars and doing this daily, we are slowly and surely breaking the chains of menticide given to us. Little by little, we begin to see this fake reality for what it is. We then see the true reality of what it could be, and last, we begin to fashion reality for ourselves, what we want it to be.
This analysis is why democide and menticide exist. To cull the population and keep us under control. On a deeper note, this is actually a spiritual attack manifesting in physical, but that’s a deeper, more philosophical dive that I discuss in articles and podcasts such as Esoteric Philosophy Part Two and Are We Under Satanic Attack. By becoming aware of this reality, we can break free and thus are free to pursue life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thank you for your time in reading this article. Ashe.
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Great article, thank you for sharing! I would submit that democide and menticide have been going on a long time, possibly for millenium. Vietnam War and other needless wars come to mind. How many lives were lost due to democide because young men were drafted into going to Vietnam but came home in a coffin? How many went because they were brainwashed (menticided)? You can go back even further to the great Spanish flu epidemic of 1918? It was an epidemic very similar to what we just went through in 2020; it was contrived and many were killed by the jab in 1918, as well as in 2020 up until the present time. These are just 2 examples, I'm sure there are more even further back in time.
Menticide is democide in a different dimension. As Morpheus says in The Matrix, "The body cannot live without the mind."