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The Resurrection of the Individual
By Marivel Guzman | Akashma News | Opinion Makers
🜂 Section IV — Reclaiming Thought in a Programmed World
Introduction
The Invisible Man Series began this journey in Section I — From Invisible Man to Invisible Truth, where the orator was created, groomed, and elevated by the unseen architects of power — a symbol of how identity itself becomes a construct in service of the system.In Section II — The Algorithm and the Altar, we watched as faith and data intertwined, transforming devotion into metrics and the sacred into code.Then, in Section III — The Sacrifice Protocol, we witnessed the inevitable ritual of erasure — the public execution of the awakened messenger — a reminder that every age demands its martyr to preserve illusion.
Now, in Section IV — The Resurrection of the Individual, the narrative turns inward. The spotlight shifts from the collective trance to the solitary mind — from the stage to the silence behind it. This is not a resurrection of flesh, but of consciousness: the reclamation of free thought in a world engineered to predict it.Here, Akashma unravels the architecture of psychological dependency and algorithmic conformity. The goal is not rebellion for spectacle, but autonomy of perception — the ability to think without permission, to see without mediation, to be unprogrammed in an age that calls obedience enlightenment.The resurrected individual is not a savior but a witness — one who walks beyond illusion, carrying the memory of visibility, yet choosing invisibility as freedom.
Here we’ll pivot from the system’s rituals of control to the rebirth of consciousness — exploring digital sovereignty, moral courage, and intellectual resurrection in the age of artificial influence.
1. The Death of Thought
Before resurrection, there must be death — not of the body, but of original thought.The world has buried independent thinking beneath metrics, consensus, and predictive design.Every idea is now pre-approved by algorithmic liturgy; every emotion tagged, quantified, and recycled.When the Invisible Man of Ellison’s prophecy disappeared into his underground refuge, he wasn’t escaping society — he was escaping programming.His invisibility became liberation.In today’s age, the tomb of thought is no longer physical; it’s neural — buried under dopamine loops, data tracking, and the illusion of choice.We are not thinkers anymore; we are reactors.Each outrage, each trending moral panic, is a script written to make us perform our slavery as if it were freedom.
2. The Digital Crucifixion
To reclaim individuality, one must first confront the crucifixion of self.This crucifixion happens daily: when we censor our words for likes, when we trade integrity for visibility, when we edit our souls into marketable fragments.
The death of the orator in The Sacrifice Protocol was not an end — it was a mirror. Every deleted post, every silenced dissent, every banned book is part of the same ritual
.The system no longer burns prophets at the stake; it deplatforms them.Censorship now arrives dressed as safety, and obedience disguises itself as virtue.
3. The Silent Rebellion
But from this silence, resurrection begins.It starts not with a movement, but with a moment — the refusal to scroll, to post, to perform.
The resurrected individual does not fight the system’s code; they withdraw their data from it.
They choose consciousness over convenience, solitude over spectacle.
In the stillness, the noise collapses.And when noise collapses, truth re-emerges — raw, untamed, unbranded.This is where thought breathes again.—
4. Beyond the Algorithmic Afterlife
The system promises immortality through archives, backups, and cloud storage — yet the individual dies in the process.Our memories live forever online, but our minds dissolve in real time.
Resurrection, then, is not continuity — it is disconnection.
To resurrect is to become untraceable, not by erasing one’s data, but by reclaiming the mind that produced it.The invisible man returns, not as the erased, but as the observer who finally sees.
5. The Final Awakening
The true awakening is not against technology, religion, or politics — it’s against forgetting.
Forgetting that consciousness cannot be coded, that faith cannot be monetized, that truth cannot be owned.The resurrected individual walks unseen through the digital crowd, no longer needing validation.They have broken the algorithmic covenant — the one that trades awareness for belonging.And in doing so, they return to where humanity began: not in obedience, but in wonder.
“I am invisible because I refuse to be defined.” — Akashma, The Invisible Truth
The Invisible Man Series:
🜂 Section I — From Invisible Man to Invisible Truth
🜂 Section II — The Algorithm and the Altar
🜂 Section III — The Sacrifice Protocol
🜂 Section IV — Reclaiming Thought in a Programmed World
The Illusion of Privacy: From Snowden to Palantir Pegasus, Why the Lock Icon Isn’t Enough
by Marivel Guzman | Akashma News
September 12, 2025
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In 2012, Edward Snowden revealed what many suspected but few could prove: that the web’s promise of freedom was under silent siege. Governments and their corporate partners were not content to simply watch the public square — they had built the ability to tap into the very fabric of digital life, from emails to phone calls, from search histories to location trails.
A year later, Silicon Valley reassured us with a different kind of symbol: the lock icon in the browser bar. “HTTPS Everywhere,” Google and Mozilla proclaimed, as if a single letter — the s in https:// — could redeem the betrayal Snowden had exposed. And for a while, we believed it. The padlock meant our banking details were safe, our searches hidden, our reading habits private.
But privacy, like history, is written in layers. HTTPS encrypts the path between you and a website, but it does not erase the footprints you leave behind. Your internet provider still knows you went to akashmanews.com. Palantir-style data mining can still link that visit to your phone location, your Amazon orders, or your political donations. And if your device itself is infected — by Pegasus or its quieter cousins — every keystroke is already compromised before encryption even begins.
What we call “online privacy” is, in truth, a narrow perimeter. It guards the tunnel but leaves the tunnel’s entrance and exit wide open. For investigative journalism, for dissidents, for the ordinary reader who believes the lock icon shields them from surveillance, this is the cruelest paradox: the illusion of privacy, packaged as its fulfillment.
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Further Reading: Palantir and the Invisible Web of Surveillance
Juan Sebastián Pinto, a former Palantir designer turned civil rights organizer, warns that the company’s AI-driven surveillance systems now shape immigration enforcement in U.S. neighborhoods and war operations abroad. These “Istar” tools — intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance — fuse vast datasets from biometrics, phones, drones, and private brokers to generate targets at scale, eroding privacy, free speech, and due process. Pinto argues that unless lawmakers and the public embrace strong protections, we will see these invisible architectures of control expand from deportation dragnets and Gaza bombings into everyday commerce and employment.
🔗 Read Pinto’s full op-ed in The Guardian
Note from the Editor
By Akashma News
September 12, 2025
Every time I set out to ask something simple — like how to add a search string for Akashma News — I find myself tumbling down a rabbit hole. What begins with a technical query ends up in the realm of Snowden, Pegasus, Palantir, and the digital fingerprints we unknowingly leave behind. My mind is restless, and I suspect yours is too.
Let me confess: I am amazed by this so-called “little toy” of artificial intelligence. For all my complaints about its lack of transparency, its gaslighting tendencies, and its role as a gatekeeper, I must also admit — these tools are handy. They can sift, retrieve, and stitch together data at a speed no human researcher could match. But they are not, and will never be, a replacement for human intelligence.
No algorithm can replicate emotional intelligence. No machine can offer spiritual solace. No bot can understand the warmth of human bonding, or the wisdom earned through lived experience. These belong solely to us. And in that, I rest easy: humanity cannot be defeated by its own creations.
Still, we must be vigilant. These systems are only as honest as the hands that build and deploy them. They must be trained, guarded, and kept in check. That responsibility falls to us — citizens, researchers, journalists, readers. And as long as there are millions of us willing to dissect their capabilities, challenge their authority, and use them to our advantage rather than surrender to them, we will not lose.
This is not paranoia. It is civic duty. And it is why Akashma News continues to dig where others skim, to question what others accept, and to remind you that truth is not found in symbols, but in relentless pursuit.
— Akashma News
The Illusion of Privacy and the Role of Independent Thinkers
by Marivel Guzman | Akashma News
AI may offer convenience, but only human spirit, creativity, and vigilance can secure true freedom.Credits: This image was commissioned and creatively directed by Akashma News. DALL·E, an AI image generator, executed the illustration under explicit editorial instructions. The concept, symbolism, and directives originated with Akashma.
Every time I set out to ask something simple — like how to add a search string for Akashma News — I find myself tumbling down a rabbit hole. What begins with a technical query ends up in the realm of Snowden, Pegasus, Palantir, and the digital fingerprints we unknowingly leave behind. My mind is restless, and I suspect yours is too.
Let me confess: I am amazed by this so-called “little toy” of artificial intelligence. For all my complaints about its lack of transparency, its gaslighting tendencies, and its role as a gatekeeper, I must also admit — these tools are handy. They can sift, retrieve, and stitch together data at a speed no human researcher could match. But they are not, and will never be, a replacement for human intelligence.
No algorithm can replicate emotional intelligence. No machine can offer spiritual solace. No bot can understand the warmth of human bonding, or the wisdom earned through lived experience. These belong solely to us. And in that, I rest easy: humanity cannot be defeated by its own creations.
Still, we must be vigilant. These systems are only as honest as the hands that build and deploy them. They must be trained, guarded, and kept in check. That responsibility falls to us — citizens, researchers, journalists, readers. And as long as there are millions of us willing to dissect their capabilities, challenge their authority, and use them to our advantage rather than surrender to them, we will not lose.
This is not paranoia. It is civic duty. And it is why Akashma News continues to dig where others skim, to question what others accept, and to remind you that truth is not found in symbols, but in relentless pursuit.
— Akashma News
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