People who crave power tend to rise into powerful roles because they want it with an intensity most normal people do not share. After years living at the top, surrounded by extreme wealth and influence, they often fall into what Carl Jung called “psychic inflation”, a mindset where they start to feel above moral law, and even above ordinary humanity.
That is the archetype of the Tyrant, and in a system like ours, most people at the top embody some version of it, whether lightly or heavily. They begin to see human beings as resources to be used up, and because endless access to ordinary pleasures eventually dulls them, their appetites escalate. Over time those appetites can grow so extreme that, to an average person watching from the outside, what they want, and what they are willing to do, starts to look like pure evil.
The “demons” they end up worshiping are really external projections of their own darkest subconscious desires. Their worldly appetite becomes so voracious that it consumes, with ease and immediate access, the very things our society still treats as sacred. And once ordinary transgression stops giving them a rush, they start reaching for something darker, something for them to lust after that does not even exist in the normal earthly realm.
That is how you get the ritualized, hive-minded behavior, the marching in unison through places like Bohemian Grove, the indoctrination pipelines of groups like Skull and Bones, and the wider ecosystem of elite-only societies that seem designed to concentrate wealth, status, secrecy, and shared moral inversion in the same closed circle.
These people devour the innocence and even the lives of children because a child is the most innocent thing they can conceive of. They prolong the death of those children, consume their bodies and worship at dark altars because those are the most evil acts they can conceive of. They drift toward dark, theatrical rituals and vague references to ancient esoteric “mysteries” because the performance itself becomes part of the thrill, a way of telling themselves they are tapping into a power beyond what they have already gained on earth, chasing a level of pleasure or excitement that their worldly reach can no longer produce.
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Even if someone wants to argue about specific groups, the broader psychological and moral pattern is hard to deny, power concentrates, temptation concentrates, and consequences get outsourced to anything we can deny responsibility for. It is why leaders blame foreign boogeymen for the unraveling of their nations while quietly shipping public money into private pockets, writing checks to friends and rewarding loyalists with positions of wealth and comfort that, just a few hundred years ago, would have been held only by kings and emperors. Almost more importantly, though, it’s also why your neighbor blames “the demoncrats” for the downfall of his culture instead of the countless hours he spent on the couch with a beer in his hand watching rage-bait politics, instead of engaging with his family and in his community. Here, we are all implicated because nearly no one has done enough.
It is this most local evasion that cuts the deepest into the soul of a nation, though, because the Tyrant does not come out of nowhere, he is the final form of the excuses we tolerate.
If we want less corruption at the top, we have to stop practicing it at the bottom. It’s time for us to stop outsourcing responsibility to politicians and abstract villains. It also means we have to stop treating elites like they know better than we do, like whatever they are doing must be complex and necessary because they are the ones doing it. We have to stop assuming that their actions, which are plainly and clearly immoral, are secretly part of some grand plan, some sophisticated chess match we are too small to understand.
Could these people be tapping into a real, darker force? Of course. But the answer stays the same either way, a bottom-up groundswell of healthy culture and faith that reclaims our institutions and our nation.
Look at the people at the top right now, every single one of them, they have made a grotesquerie of our country, an incestuous brothel of our hallowed halls, and a mockery of our founding ethic. We should not be arguing over which gilded pig is better than the other. We should be so disgusted by their presence and by their lack of scruples that we refuse to tolerate their existence in our society at all.
After all of that, here is the positive note to end on. We are not dealing with an omnipotent evil, just pathetic, weak people who have allowed their animal urges to consume them entirely. The worst degeneracy of the human ego only thrives in dark corners. If evil truly ruled the world, the beautiful, love-filled ordinary life so many of us enjoy every day would not exist, the light and forgiveness of Christ would not, once accepted, so easily burn away the darkness.
Dylan R. Griffith is Director of Communications for Dissident Media. Follow him on X at @LivingDadJoke.
To me those supposedly at the top are nothing but an extention of there own egotistical thoughts nothing more but a lot less .. They actually believe the world loves then and cannot survive without them .
But although in many ways there no different from the guy cleaning the streets not in the satanic way in the actual life side . Meaning we live we die and that makes us all equal in the eyes of God .
Excellent.
To me those supposedly at the top are nothing but an extention of there own egotistical thoughts nothing more but a lot less .. They actually believe the world loves then and cannot survive without them .
But although in many ways there no different from the guy cleaning the streets not in the satanic way in the actual life side . Meaning we live we die and that makes us all equal in the eyes of God .