What is Obedience Theory?
Basically, obedience theory, is the idea that within a hierarchical society all people are obedient instruments of authority, first and foremost. And all of us signal obedience, often unconsciously, as the primary way to climb socially and economically.
Yet the abstract principles we all make highly visible, such as observed fact, saving the world, empathy, identity, charity etc... are a sham used with a theatre of virtue to mask the guilt and shame that must come from having submitted to authority as an obedient human. Nonetheless, these principles come a very remote second place to signalling our obedience.
All people follow this theory not because it is right or wrong, but because it works. Obedience is rewarded highly by the tribe. Dis-obedience is punished severely with exile from the tribe.
All other factors determining what a society is and how it operates in all aspects are founded on obedience. And obedience theory is pointing out the mechanics and motivations driving it all from the root. i.e. rumours are a subset of obedience signalling the archetypes we use to create narratives -stories which reinforce unconscious societal activity. Economics and politics are also subsets governing how obediences regulates the distribution of wealth. There are more. Suffice to say that obedience is society's top level master and everything else worships it.
You may well ask what or who is this authority we all obey with such conviction? You can find out more here: What is Authority? First time observers will be unhappy about what is seen here. That's OK. The goal of this blog is to show you forbidden knowledge and that will take you directly into uncomfortable territory. It's a signal you are on the right path, but you have to keep following it if you are serious, honourable and authentic as a person.
To help identify how far along this path you might be, read these posts under the label of rumours.
You can find out more about obedience theory by reading the posts under the label of obedience.
There's a specific post on it here Obedience Theory - Drives Success More Than Every Other Factor.
What is this blog about?
This blog tells you all about forbidden knowledge, or hidden forms of obedience. Stuff which happens all the time and all around us yet no one is permitted to speak about without risking exile from the tribe. So to all intents this knowledge is forbidden.
I can't be more specific on the subject matter. Because it covers everything which happens on the earth, socially, politically, economically and spiritually, which is forbidden. It is nearly everything that happens.
These forbidden things are not illegal. It's worse. Merely thinking about these things risks being sent into exile - a virtual death sentence, as it always has been.
Practically, this means our world must be built on a foundation of obedience, to a master of some kind, which I call authority. This authority is not a person but a collective of people - and the root of Power.
My hypothesis for this is called obedience theory.
The net effect is that people signal obedience as a priority in all aspects of daily life - "it's my first duty to my master". And abstract principles such as observed facts, morals, the law, empathy, charity not only come a very distant second place to the primacy of obedience. They are used in a masquerade to hide the shame and guilt of the obedience behind a veil of planet saving virtue.
This systemic activity is root cause of all the world's great social problems and its carried out by pretty much all people. Yet no one is permitted to speak about it. And we're about to take it wholesale into the unbounded reaches of space soon. Are you starting to understand yet? Can you see now?
Obedience is the principle form of forbidden knowledge I'll tell you about, upon which all others rest, such as politics, economics, religion, institutions, businesses, education, healthcare, property rights and so on.
So beware. Do not enter into your search lightly - be self aware at all times. Because you might start to find yourself refusing to obey the master you never knew you had. Yes, that will be a good thing for you personally, a transformation perhaps. But it will also mean exposure to fire and the sword. So I'm recommending you take care, if you choose to read on...
Who is this blog for?
Anyone who really wants to know. Anyone who is deadly serious about it. If you're honourable you will be more likely to make good way across that ocean.
If you're an obedient instrument of authority - the vast majority of people, you will certainly not be happy about anything written here - you would be signalling your dis-obedience by just looking at it and putting your position within the tribe in jeopardy.
But, you may be on the cusp of a personal transformation where you recently started to see through the obedience structure dominating your life since you were about 7 years old. And now you really want to know why - you have suddenly become deadly serious about it. You find you are ready to keeping looking no matter where it goes and realise that falling back into a cosy armchair is a no longer the act of those who our descendants will remember with honour. That is to say, your descendants lives have suddenly become more important than you own.
So, do you really want to know?
Why did I start this blog?
Work in Progress...a long story of a life I think in personal transformation...wanting to be remembered by those who come after us.
I write this blog primarily for myself and my own benefit. If others can make way with it then so much the better for it. I am not trying to change the mind of anyone else.
All I know for certain is that I know very little about anything important. And knowing that little means I know far more than I ever knew before. Specifically, I know that I cannot change anyone else's mind and nor can anyone else. And only I can change my own mind, in an instant without the need of a teacher or guru.
This is the basis of why I started this blog.
I was never comfortable with obedience to authority from very young, given the extraordinarily huge structures society has built to promote it and assure its continuance. But never understood why me. And carried on challenging it nonetheless, knowing intuitively obedience is wrong but not understanding why. I just took it for granted and tried to rise above it never really achieving that.
Meaning I never fitted in well within tribal organisations. And have spent my entire life 'acting' as a defence against attacks, while allowing me to continue challenging all tribes and their obedient slaves.
20 years in the so called wilderness (corporate life) I did well out of dotcom - by luck(everybody works hard). This wealth gave me the freedom to ignore tribal activity in spite of the inevitable attacks.
Later, during think tank activity, immersing myself everywhere I could politically and infiltrating many well funded protest movements, I started observing that systemic problems were not rooted in material world functions of economics and politics. But people acted from a psychological basis primarily. Yet did not appear to be aware of this individual activity which was apparently being mastered by the collective these individuals followed religiously.
I call this collective, authority. It is not an individual. It is always a very large group of individuals. This recognises that blaming wealth and power for the worlds problems is another escape route tribal obedience uses to block root cause analysis. Yes wealth and power could do a lot better certainly. But that institution is tiny in Power terms compared to authority.
Ironically this think tank was co-opted against my wishes and behind my back by characters commanded by their own obedience structures in the end. (Liberal Democrats and climate change fanatics). To this day they remain unconscious of it.
Key historic figures who also seem to have recognised this are Jiddu Krishnamurti, C. G. Jung, Jesus, Joseph Campbell, Maurice Nicoll, Henry George and George Orwell.
This was a point of no return for me in this life. I now observe that obedience drives people because the tribe rewards obedience above all else. And that resistance to the tribe is punished very heavily even by people who otherwise proudly see themselves as empathic or planet savers. And that abstract principles are never really rewarded at all, though we're taught to pretend that they are to hide the shame and guilt that must be the final effect of our obedience.
Twenty years later I found the confidence to write about it openly without worrying too much about the receipt of widespread betrayal and the effects of continuous personal attacks from weak and obedient tribal people defending their master authority.
So the motive is to show people there is plenty that can be done, immediately, if you have suddenly observed there is a systemic problem in the world which no one else seems to know about. But 'what can be done' is not teachable, nor is time useful in learning how to do it. Each time you re-think about it, you have to immediately chose autonomy over obedience and the slavery that must be the result of that. Consider it a bit like praying or meditation - but it's not like heaven is a place you can get to. It is a continuous repeating process which you either can see, or you cannot see, each time.
Many will say "aha", this confession of my own person is the sign of someone with low self esteem, I'm an anarchist or a sociopath and so on and so on. Isn't this yet another example of the tribe attempting to silence the autonomous individual through shame and manipulation - a shadow projection of their own shame and guilt from having already accepted their own slavery?
I can see right through this punishment activity quickly, do not care and use each example as a case history I often written about and reveal on this blog for others see and analyse.
In case you're wondering, I have no religion, no political affiliation and hold no ideological opinions about ways to save the world. Because all of them history has shown fail every time they are re-tried. I always challenge authority.
What makes this blog different from others in this niche?
It asks you to go to the root of any important question, wherever that might lead and not to flinch when what you discover in that new place is not cosy.
This is not really a niche. This blog does not have a niche. It is talking about forbidden knowledge, which is extant. Going to the root has only a singularity to observe. There are no alternatives. There is no niche.
Yet the vast majority of people have chosen to render it all into the unconscious, it being too difficult to contemplate openly in public. And instead choose to be obedient to a master.
If there is a difference it is that it is asking people to go to the root of everything. Which is further than education, religion, science, leadership, and so on ever ask you to do. The primary focus of these institutions is to help you to escape from that activity.
This is our niche or difference if you like - to go to the root.
Do you accept guest posts / collaborations / sponsored content?
Yes, to all except sponsorship.
Though in 5 years of writing I have only had comments from several anonymous contributors and a single known commentor. No one ever reposts my posts from here.
No one has asked to contribute further or sponsor me. So I'm not expecting to need to even though I'd be delighted to do so.
On sponsorship, my view is that once you've accepted the bags of silver from sponsorship you've started the descent toward the obedience establishment by implication. This is clearly evident in social media, let alone traditional media.
How to navigate the blog using Labels (select from 4 specific labels)
Use the labels gadget from the hamburger drop down menu top right or select from the orange titles below the title bar.
There are only 4 specific labels to choose from to define the subject matter of the post. I use one per post to improve writing discipline and reading clarity. Sometimes a post will cross over into another label. If so I'll select a single label based on its weight in the post:
Obedience: Discussing how the primary driver of people acting within social organisation is to be an obedient instrument of authority. And those who signal their obedience the best are the ones who rise more quickly to the top. There are no exemptions - everybody is obedient, because it works!
Rumours: Rumours deal with existential and eternal matters. Archetypes, things which have always been here and never change. Stories which shine a light on forbidden knowledge. Narrative. Visions. The world has forgotten about how useful they are. So the world lags behind.
2026: Anything to do with our forecasted great recession toward the end of 2026 (~ 06/26 to 06/27). And also anything economic or to do with political economy. Particularly if the post implies changes in economic productivity or intensifies the business cycle. Basically everything which impacts and drives economic rent and how the root of the system producing and distributing wealth.
Crypto: Anything to do with Bitcoin, crypto in general, blockchain tech, digital assets and so on. And how it might eventually be used more broadly without us realising it. I throw money, credit, debt and finance into this topic because there is so much cross over, though it's rarely something which is broadly understood well by experts and controllers.
Slavery: I wanted to use this label because as discussed above is so in your face everywhere in modern western society yet no one is conscious of it curiously, a classic exposition of forbidden knowledge. Mortgages - the dead hand, being the vehicle for the systemic slavery of today. But I chose not to because it falls between obedience theory and visionary rumours so I'd prefer to stick to one of those higher order labels. You can still search on 'slavery' using the magnifying glass top right.
Golden rules of the blog
It's important to remember that the leaders we select are merely a proxy for the people. Us.
So when writing here we'll try our best never to blame wealth & power for the effects of the things this forbidden knowledge discusses. This is not to appease leadership. It is to point out that the people who already selected them blame them to escape from their own complicity. Can you see how tricky this is to accept yet - because it's forbidden?
In the final analysis, all allegations against wealth and power are projections - attempts to get rid of the self inflicted inner guilt and shame which comes directly from having already submitted to authority. Jealousy of wealth is another way of looking at the same thing.
This does not mean to say we worship and protect leaders. We absolutely do not. We believe in absolute and unconditional freedom. The point is to ask the reader to confess that is it you who chooses leadership through wilful obedience and that is the primary mistake. To go on to blame them for your mistake is a harmful pathology.
Go Well.
Go Well.