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When Power Needs a Martyr
By Marivel Guzman | Akashma News | Opinion Makers
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🜂 Section III — The Sacrifice Protocol
🌙We now enter the heart of the trilogy — where spectacle, sacrifice, and control intersect. This section carries the emotional charge of Ellison’s “invisible martyr” and the symbolic resonance of modern political theatre.—🜂 Section III — The Sacrifice Protocol When Power Needs a Martyr
1. Rituals of Power in the Age of Optics
Power has always required ritual.
Where empires once built arenas, modern systems build algorithms.
The spectacle has evolved—from lions and crosses to hashtags and headlines.
In this new empire of optics, truth is a product, and outrage is the sacrament.
The martyrdom of the modern orator—whether silenced by scandal, exile, or bullet—is not a failure of democracy but its maintenance.
The ritual ensures continuity. It reminds the obedient what happens to those who remember they were once free.
2. Manufactured Martyrs, Disposable Prophets
Every few years, the system selects a messenger to elevate and destroy.
The figure rises fast—amplified by media, worshiped by followers, and encased in myth.
Then, at the moment of greatest influence, comes the fall: a leak, an accusation, a sudden death.
The purpose is not to eliminate a person but to recalibrate belief.
The audience must see that transcendence is punishable—that truth, when spoken too plainly, costs blood.
The message is clear: The throne feeds on its own saints.
3. Death as a Broadcast
In ancient times, the crucifixion was meant for public instruction.
Today, the live-stream has replaced the cross.
The screen delivers the spectacle—instantly, globally, and algorithmically optimized for engagement.
Death becomes content.
Mourning becomes a metric.
The system feeds on both.
We scroll, share, and repeat—witnesses to an endless digital Golgotha where prophets trend before being buried by the next feed cycle.
4. The Psychological Contract of Control
Every public sacrifice renews a silent contract:
“Stay within the script, and you’ll be safe.” Akashma News
This contract is the spine of political entertainment.
Politicians sign it with lobbyists, journalists with sponsors, influencers with donors, and citizens with convenience.
Each act of obedience buys one more day of visibility.
Each deviation risks deletion.
In this architecture, the martyr is not an accident but a system update—a necessary purge to sustain illusion.
5. The Audience as Accomplice
The audience is never innocent.
Our fascination with the fall—the way we consume the downfall of others—makes us co-authors of the sacrifice.
When we click “share,” we carry the blade.
When we doubt the truth-teller and praise the deceiver, we sign the social contract of complicity.
The invisible man is not only the orator on the stage; it is us—mesmerized, enthralled, unwilling to look away.
6. Breaking the Protocol
To break the protocol, one must reject the spectacle.
Turn off the feed.
Refuse the algorithmic offering.
Reclaim the silence that power fears most: critical stillness.
The martyr’s true victory is not in death but in the contagion of awareness left behind.
If enough awaken, the ritual collapses—because sacrifice only works when there’s an audience willing to watch.
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
From Invisible Man to Invisible Truth
By Marivel Guzman |Akashma News | Opinion Makers
Section I – How Power Manufactures and Silences Its Messengers
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1. The Making of a Modern Orator
Every era manufactures its prophets. Some are born in struggle, others in strategy.
Charlie Kirk, like Ellison’s Invisible Man, was not merely discovered—he was engineered.
A young, articulate conservative molded by think tanks, super-PACs, and megadonors, he became the voice of America’s restless youth. His rise was not accidental; it was architected.
The same way Ellison’s protagonist was paraded by the Brotherhood to speak for “his people,” Kirk was positioned to speak for “his generation.”
Yet, behind both figures stood the same invisible scaffolding: power using identity as a stage prop.
2. Grooming the Voice of the Faithful
Turning Point USA was not merely a student movement—it was a donor consortium disguised as grassroots.
Its patrons—billionaires, politicians, and faith leaders—sculpted a moral trinity:
Patriotism, Capitalism, and Judeo-Christian Destiny.
The messaging was simple: to be Christian was to defend Israel; to question Israel was to betray God and Country.
Kirk’s oratory baptized political Zionism in evangelical language, merging nationalism and theology into a single “gospel of survival.”
The formula worked. Millions followed.
3. The Awakening
But power’s greatest fear is a messenger who learns he has been scripted.
When Kirk began to question the contradictions—the endless wars, the moral dissonance between faith and foreign policy—he crossed from preacher to heretic.
His doubts were quiet at first, coded in language about “America First.”
Then louder—challenging donors, hinting that loyalty to a foreign state had replaced loyalty to truth.
That is when the machine turned on him.
Isolation. Defamation. Threats. And eventually—silence.
Whether his death was orchestrated or opportunistic, the pattern is the same:
When a symbol awakens, the system demands sacrifice.
4. The New Invisible War
Candace Owens’ “dead man’s switch” is not only a digital vault—it’s a metaphor for this new era of information rebellion.
She represents what Ellison foreshadowed: the rebellion of the orator who refuses to be invisible any longer.
In a world where livestreams replace pulpits, and social media becomes the new temple, truth is no longer broadcast—it is leaked.
Owens’ defiance—and the public’s hunger for transparency—marks the fracture line between controlled narrative and awakening consciousness.
5. The Moral Economy of Sacrifice
Every empire feeds on its own prophets.
Rome crucified its truth-tellers.
Modern power cancels, discredits, or erases them.
The “greater good” is always invoked—the defense of democracy, of faith, of national security.
But the greater good is never for the messenger; it is for the machinery that sustains the illusion.
In this sense, Kirk’s fall is not a conspiracy theory—it’s a case study in the political theology of control.
He became dangerous not because he was wrong, but because he began to think freely within a closed system.
6. Generation Z and the Shattered Mirror
Kirk’s audience—young, skeptical, wired—was already questioning the old idols.
They saw in Gaza not a foreign war but a mirror of their own manipulated media.
They saw censorship in their feeds, coercion in their churches, and hypocrisy in their politicians.
This generation will not inherit the blind allegiance of their parents.
They have watched the orator fall and asked, Who killed the message?
The invisible man is visible again—but this time, it is the system that hides.
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
Dear COVID-19: The Lockdown—Love Affair with Death
Originally posted on April 21, 2020
By Marivel Guzman
Updated April 25, 2025
I don’t love you,
not like my friends and followers do.
They dig through Google and Facebook
for every freshly minted death count,
adoring the adrenaline rush
when your numbers spike to a new day’s high.
They’re in love with death’s new attire,
searching day and night for proof—
the nurse, the taxi driver, the maid,
the doctor, the neighbor, the friend of a friend,
the niece of their uncle’s ex-wife’s son-in-law
who—according to the MSM—died of you.
Your lovers’ opinions are as loud as mine,
but my data analysis?
Well, it carries a sharper edge—
in my humble, unapologetic opinion.
Not even in my wildest dreams
did I imagine you’d bulldoze
the path of free thinkers in three months flat.
Not even Adelson’s millions
could shake us from standing with Palestine,
from challenging headline-charged wars.
But you?
You slithered through subconscious fears,
and in mere months,
sent the rebels into self-imposed exile.
They left their cafés,
the warmth of real conversations,
trading them in for government stimulus checks
and digital chains.
They swapped social justice
for feverish browsing of your every move.
Once fearless critics of the MSM,
they now quote it like gospel:
“X, Y, Z who didn’t believe in you—
died today!”
(happy face emoji, of course).
Zealously, they patrol Facebook,
chasing dissenters with virtual pitchforks:
“If you think COVID-19 is a hoax,
please delete me or unfollow,”
one lover proudly typed.
Dear COVID-19,
I still don’t love you.
I never did.
And I stand my ground
against you and your army
of fear-vaccinated souls.
I’ll stick to flu advice, thanks—
cover your mouth when you cough,
care for the elderly;
they are fragile and need love, not exile.
Fight the mandates
that condemned them to die alone.
Rest in peace—
Yellow Vests,
Hong Kong protesters,
Amazon workers,
water protectors,
beggars,
the homeless,
the elderly,
the poor,
pensions,
free expression,
and friendship.
🧪 UPDATE: The Fauci Files – A Comedy of Errors
🎭 “I Didn’t Mandate Anything”
In a recent congressional hearing, Dr. Anthony Fauci clarified that he never mandated masks or social distancing; he merely offered suggestions. As he put it, “I didn’t recommend anything. I just suggested it.”
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Dr. Fauci admitted that the six-foot social distancing guideline “sort of just appeared” and was “likely not based on scientific data.”
🔬 Lab Leak Theory: Not So Far-Fetched
Contrary to earlier dismissals, Dr. Fauci acknowledged that the lab leak hypothesis is “not a conspiracy theory.”
💰 Funding Controversies
Documents have surfaced indicating that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded research in Wuhan that enhanced a bat coronavirus’s infectivity in humans. This contradicts earlier statements denying such funding.
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Marivel Guzman is passionate about investigative reporting and photography. She loves to dig for information and get to the bottom of what is really going on. Her work often focuses on following the money and exposing how public funds are allocated—or misused.
Her bylines include Lariat News, Orange Coast Report, and The State Hornet. She has also worked remotely as Proof Editor for the Baluchistan Red Crescent quarterly magazine and volunteers as a photographer for UNRWA events.
She has been the voice behind a political blog for more than a decade, covering both domestic and international stories that mainstream outlets often ignore.
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