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It is our IQs and Egos—both individual and as a people as a society—that allow the illusions of power, money, and politics to further divide us.

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It is our IQs and Egos—both individual and as a people as a society—that allow the illusions of power, money, and politics to further divide us.

The working class? Priced out.
The middle class? Kept unaware.
The upper-class? Even most professionals have no idea these sources exist, let alone access them.

Why should they? Why should you?
The →system← isn’t built for you to see the scaffolding.

→→→→Who built the system? Read through to find out←←←←

Major corporations—whether publicly associated or branded as with the left/Democrats or the Republicans\right—frequently donate to both parties.

Keep reading.

These same competing corporations often share overlapping individuals on their Boards of Directors.

You want to see the connective tissue between oil, tech, pharma, and media?
You want to know which →executive(s)← sits on *both* a
"green energy" advisory panel
and a
fossil fuel board?

Good luck.

So while it's technically public record?

The cost of access makes it functionally invisible to 99.9% of society.

Keep reading.

We let *illusions* of power and money bypass our emotional intelligence (EQ) because we’ve been conditioned to trust the *ego* of the intellectual IQ
over the -quiet clarity of EQ-.

And guess what? Some of our fellow Substack authors? Are BOUND by these bureaucracies. They're not writing from the scaffolding—they're writing inside it.

And it’s not their fault. They're in the system. Just like the rest of us. You and Me.

Keep reading.

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And if this hit something in you—if you felt that flicker of truth beneath the surface—there’s more coming.

Part 2 is already in motion:

“Writing from Inside the System: How Even Independent Media Isn’t Always Free.”

Because the scaffolding isn’t just political. It’s editorial. It’s psychological. It’s energetic.

Find and see the Secret draft link here:
https://theomegaorigin.substack.com/p/49046518-06ca-4010-9bfd-2b4aa9d0dc93

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When most people think of politics, they think of elections, debates, and voting booths.

But the real levers of influence are far more layered—and often, far less visible.

This post isn’t about cynicism. It’s about clarity.
Because if we’re serious about building something better, we need to understand how the current system actually works.

→ Allow your EQ, SQ, and AQ guide your IQ—so you can perceive the truth beyond the noise and static of what’s loud, popular, or politically convenient.

Read here about the word no one dares to say out loud anymore anywhere: PROPAGANDA.

🧨PROPAGANDA: The Invisible Weapon Still Shaping 2025

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🧩 Influence in American Governance Is a Network—Not a Line

It’s tempting to believe politics follows a straight-linear line:

People vote → Elected leaders make decisions → Society changes.

But in reality, that’s just the surface layer.
The real engine of political decision-making is a network of influence, including:

• Media platforms that shape public perception

• Lobbying groups and advocacy organizations

• Financial stakeholders (from donors to industries)

• Think tanks and consultants who write the first draft of policy

Think tanks and consultants often act as the intellectual architects of legislation. While elected officials may sponsor bills, the research, language, and legal scaffolding often originate from white papers, advisory panels, and policy fellows embedded in research institutions. These entities help translate abstract ideas into implementable frameworks—essentially acting as the system’s policy engineers. Their influence is subtle but deep, shaping not only what gets proposed but how it gets framed and justified.

Most of the public has no conception of just how much influence this group holds—or even who they are. In fact, if we were to break down political influence as a percentage, the distribution across these core groups might look something like this:

35% — Think tanks and consultants
30% — Financial stakeholders
20% — Lobbying groups and advocacy organizations
15% — Media platforms

35% — Think tanks and consultants.

The intellectual architects of the system. These are often invisible to the public, yet they shape the policy blueprints from inception to execution.

Who are these ‘think tanks and consultants’, even?

Most voters couldn’t name one.

*not one*

can you?

A few notable examples include:

• The Brookings Institution – frequently cited in Congressional briefings and legislative discussions.

  • Officially nonpartisan, but often aligned with center-left discourse.

• The Heritage Foundation – influential in shaping conservative policy, especially around deregulation and national defense.

  • Deeply conservative, shaping GOP policies on defense and deregulation.

• Center for American Progress (CAP) – plays a central role in progressive policy development and White House advisement.

  • Progressive, closely tied to Democratic administrations.

• The Cato Institute – promotes libertarian-leaning research, often focused on civil liberties and free-market principles.

  • Libertarian, free-market oriented; conservative-leaning on economics, progressive on civil liberties.

• Urban Institute and RAND Corporation – well-known for data-driven policy research across health, housing, and social programs.

  • Urban Institute – nonpartisan; frequently used by both sides, though more often referenced by Democrats.

  • RAND Corporation – nonpartisan and data-driven, often cited across the spectrum.

These institutions, as you can see, span across many different party lines:

Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, and Nonpartisan.

Even our "neutral research" is shaped by the invisible hand. (← see what I did here, Mr. Adam Smith?)

(And at the end of this post—and in the secret draft of Part 2—you'll find a cheeky comment on the archetype of an 'erudite.')

These institutions don’t pass the laws—but they often define the options from which lawmakers choose.

They frame the menu. The public often only sees the meal.

30% — Financial stakeholders.

• Funding drives visibility, access, and longevity in policymaking. This includes major political donors, industry associations, and institutional investors who strategically support candidates or legislation that protect their interests.

  We're talking about:

  • Wall Street (banking and investment powerhouses)

  • Silicon Valley (tech billionaires and digital infrastructure giants)

  • Big Pharma (pharmaceutical corporations with deep lobbying and regulatory stakes)

  • And other benefactors—oil and energy lobbies, agricultural conglomerates, and healthcare insurers—who treat policy as an asset class.

  
  These stakeholders often ensure their priorities are not only heard—but structurally embedded in the legislative process.

20% — Lobbying groups and advocacy organizations.

• About half the influence of think tanks and consultants.

  Ironically, many citizens believe lobbyists are the think tanks—when in truth, they are distinct players.

15% — Media platforms.

• Half the power of financial stakeholders, media is often perceived by the public as the most powerful. Think CNN on the left, FOX on the right, and the major outlets in between.

These aren’t rigid numbers, but they reflect a general reality: the people writing and structuring the policy—often behind the scenes—hold more sway than many voters realize.

Elected officials don’t operate in a vacuum.

They’re surrounded by currents—some loud, some silent—that shape legislation.

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📚 Where Bureaucracies Actually Get Their Information

Definitely not: CNN or FOX. Nope. Not even CBS, ABC, NBC. Not Bloomberg, WSJ.

Not any social media newsfeed: your Instagram, TikTok, Snap, Facebook, X, BlueSky, and whatever or wherever or whoever else.

Contrary to public belief, the information pipelines that guide bureaucratic agencies, policy analysts, and government advisors rarely originate from the nightly news. Major outlets like Bloomberg, WSJ, CNN, FOX, CBS, and ABC may shape public sentiment—but they are not the primary sources of operational intelligence.

Behind closed doors, the sources that drive real decision-making are not free, either. In fact, many of them are wildly expensive—gatekept behind paywalls and institutional licenses that only well-funded bureaucracies, consulting firms, and Fortune 500s can afford.

These sources are expensive.

The working class? Priced out.
The middle class? Kept unaware.
The upper-class? Even most professionals have no idea these sources exist, let alone access them.

Why should they? Why should you?
The system isn’t built for you to see the scaffolding.

Here’s where the real information comes from:

• Gartner, Forrester, Statista, IBISWorld, Frost & Sullivan reports

• SEC filings (10-Ks, 10-Qs), Annual Reports, Investor Presentations

• MarketLine, S&P Capital IQ, PrivCo, and patent databases

• Vendor whitepapers from firms like Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm

• Product documentation from companies like Omnivision, Microchip, and Multitech

• Field testing results and R&D collaborations

• Stakeholder interviews and proprietary industry surveys

• Technical forums: GitHub, Stack Overflow, and Reddit (yes, really)

For more specialized or federally funded projects, they pull from:

• Peer-reviewed journals (e.g., IEEE Transactions, Transportation Research Part C, Nature)

• Academic thesis repositories and government whitepapers

• Archives from USDOT, FRA, DOE, NSF, and NIST

This is the quiet layer of power—the data streams that don’t make headlines but dictate policy timelines, feasibility assessments, and infrastructure budgets.

And guess what? Some of our fellow Substack authors? Are BOUND by these bureaucracies. They're not writing from the scaffolding—they're writing inside it.

And it’s not their fault. They're in the system. Just like the rest of us. You and Me.

If you’ve ever wondered how a 1,200-page bill gets written with surgical precision—it wasn’t by watching CNN. It was built off this scaffolding.

(At the very least, you now know the sources Fortune 500s and global institutions actually consult—so if nothing else, this post served as education for a more empowered and better-informed we the people.)

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💵 The Financial Layer: Not Always Evil, But Always Present

Money doesn’t automatically corrupt—but it does concentrate influence.

And here’s a fact that’s often hidden in plain sight:

Major corporations—whether publicly associated with the left/Democrats or Republicans\right—frequently donate to both parties.

Why? Because it ensures access, leverage, and optionality. Politics, after all, is risk management. Keeping influence across the aisle is ‘just’ →good business←. $$$

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Read here to uncover what we’re really doing to ourselves inside this broken, outdated system we keep using:

Why I Made My Substack: To Expose Unconscious Capitalism. The Leeches Who Lurk & Jerk to Steal Ideas. The Espionage.

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Even more staggering?

These same corporations often share overlapping individuals on their Boards of Directors.

That’s not conspiracy—it’s public record.
The same human beings, sitting on multiple boards, across industries and party lines, quietly shaping decisions that affect millions.

But here’s the catch:

The databases that track this? The tools that show who sits on which boards—even across competing corporations?
☑️ Paywalled.
☑️ Expensive.
☑️ Buried behind institutional access.
☑️ And almost completely unknown to the public.

You want to see the connective tissue between oil, tech, pharma, and media?
You want to know which executive sits on both a
"green energy" advisory panel
and a
fossil fuel board?

Good luck.

Because that information lives inside systems like:

• BoardEx – one of the most comprehensive (and expensive) platforms for mapping executive relationships and interlocking board memberships.

• PitchBook – used by investors to track people, deals, and corporate connections—behind a 4- to 5-figure annual subscription.

• LexisNexis – includes corporate records and affiliations, but it’s sold to institutions, not individuals.

• PrivCo – for insight into private companies and stakeholders, accessible mostly to firms and universities.

• And academic research access tools like JSTOR or SSRN that publish papers about these board overlaps—but again, behind a paywall.

So while it's technically public record?

The cost of access makes it functionally invisible to 99.9% of society.

And yet—

We, individually, allow illusions of power and money to slip through our emotional intelligence (EQ) because we’ve been trained to prioritize IQ—
where your, my, “their” →ego← lives, breeds, and _blinds_.

And yes, I said “their” ego—but let’s be honest: that deflection is the oldest trick in the book. We all do it. Displacing blame, scapegoating others, bypassing the mirror when it’s pointed at us totally bypassing accountability for ourselves.

Whether it’s:

• Campaign contributions that determine who gets airtime,

• Industries lobbying to protect their regulatory interests,

• Or philanthropic foundations funding research that informs policy…

Finance plays a role in what gets prioritized.
That’s not inherently bad.

But transparency and accountability must be in place—because when financial influence is invisible, public trust erodes.

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🗣️ The People’s Voice Still Matters—When Strategically Amplified

Movements like marriage equality, civil rights, and climate advocacy have shown that collective pressure works.

But here's the truth:
Timing, coordination, and framing often determine the outcome more than sheer volume.

• A protest without a policy ask?

• A campaign without clear demands?

• A movement without media strategy?

These fizzle. Not because the cause isn’t just—but because the architecture wasn’t built to carry it forward.

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📻 The Media Lens: Not Just Reporting, But Framing

Media doesn’t just reflect the conversation—it curates it.

Narratives are shaped by:

• What gets airtime

• Which experts are quoted

• How issues are *deliberately* and *strategically* _framed_ as urgent or optional, local or global, moral or economic.

But why are they framed that way? Who’s directing the frame?
No one. And everyone.

This isn’t a secret cabal. It’s capitalism unchecked—soul-less and unconscious—driven by survival economics:

We all have families to feed. Debt to repay. Degrees that cost years of blood, sweat, and tuition. Careers to protect. Visibility to maintain.

Our pride, our self-respect—our IQ… sometimes our egos to uphold.

And when monetization becomes the metric, truth becomes fragmented.

Understanding this doesn’t mean distrusting all media.
It means knowing how to participate more strategically in the story being told.

→ Allow your EQ, SQ, and AQ guide your IQ—so you can perceive the truth beyond the noise and static of what’s loud, popular, or politically convenient.

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🧠 The Omega Intelligence™ Framework in Action

This entire post is a living example of what I call Omega Intelligence™—a multidimensional framework I introduced to help us understand intelligence beyond just IQ.

• IQ thinks.

• EQ feels.

• SQ remembers.

• AQ adapts.

What you’ve read here is not just a breakdown of how political power operates. It’s a transmission through multiple layers of intelligence:

• IQ allowed us to map the structure and sequence of influence.

• EQ is what let us feel the tension between illusion and truth.

• SQ activated the ancient knowing and remembering—that this system is not new. It’s a pattern.

• AQ? That’s the now. That’s our response. That’s what happens next.

→ Let your EQ, SQ, and AQ guide your IQ. That’s the key to navigating not just politics—but every structure that tries to hijack your agency.

The Omega Intelligence™ Framework: IQ · EQ · SQ · AQ

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🤭 Why This Matters

Because if we want to build better systems—more just, more human, more aligned—we have to work with reality, not against it.

And that means:

• Seeing the full architecture

• Identifying leverage points

• Operating from a place of informed stillness, not blind outrage

This isn’t about being “in the know.”
It’s about reclaiming agency.
It’s about choosing to lead with both vision and precision.

This is how real change happens.
And this is where I begin.

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Yet, we—individually and collectively—

Let illusions of power and money bypass our emotional intelligence because we’ve been conditioned to trust the ego of the intellectual IQ over the -quiet clarity of EQ-.

But why should we know any better? Why should you know how the system actually works? The →system← isn’t built for you to see the scaffolding.

Who built that system? We did. Or at least, past versions of us did—responding to the world as it once was. But systems, like humans, must evolve.

Just like meditation brings us back to the present moment, we must ask: Where are we now in today’s moment, in linear time and collective society?

Is the system still aligned? No?

Then here’s the call:

We are not a stupid civilization. We are an intelligent, innovative species.

And it is through collaboration—not chaos—that we draft the new system because we’ve been trained to believe that only the IQ matters. That the ego—which lives and thrives in the mind—is the driver of truth, strategy, and leadership.

Without EQ, we misread reality.
And without stillness, we misjudge power.

Curious to dig deeper into resonance—and perhaps the underlying pathology of your own mind as it relates to all this?

Read my post on The Allegory of the Cave, and how we are, quite literally, living our lives right now—on this planet Earth—as if inside the cave. The shadows we mistake for truth? They’re not just philosophical. They’re political.

The Allegory of the Cave

—Lorenzo Ω.

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⚡ Afterthoughts: Our Own Self-Inflicted The Reckoning

Why aren’t the truths in this post more widely known? More clearly taught? More explicitly visible?

It’s not just “them.” It’s us. It’s You. It’s Me. It’s all of us.

We have built a human system of governance that has belittled us—and we maintain it.

Imagine the hours, years, decades we’ve poured into preserving it:

• Four years of college.

• Master's degrees in our chosen disciplines.

• PhDs chasing legitimacy.

• Lifetimes spent paying off the debt required just to participate.

And dare we challenge it?

Dare we question the structure we’ve sacrificed so much to survive within?

No, it’s not one person’s fault. It’s everyone’s.

But more than that—it’s each of us individually. Why individually? Because intentionality matters. Because we each uphold the system not just with our labor, but with our thoughts, our programming, our resignation.

In the meantime, check out my launch analytics from week one—and the follow-up breakdown from week four.

Why I Created My Substack

Why I Created My Substack: To Expose Unconscious Capitalism. The Leeches Who Lurk & Jerk to Steal Ideas. Corporate Espionage.

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(Being and accepting yourself as a staunch ego-driven self-serving selfish erudite archetype is part of the problem)
(Being a staunch, ego-driven, self-serving erudite archetype isn’t intelligence—it is the fucking problem)
(Google: what is the personality of an erudite?)

For the erudites reading this: You don’t get to access the quantum field until you learn to feel. Moods aren’t disorders—they’re data. Let that sink in.

In the quantum field, every version of you exists. And to be Quantum is not to escape your emotions—it is to master them. To recognize your moods not as disorders, but as data. To be Quantum is to become fluent in the full emotional spectrum while choosing your signal with precision and presence.

This won’t be easy to learn.
It will require real coaching, real mentorship.
A completely bespoke, individually tailored approach—one that meets you where your signal actually lives.

And finding your signal?
That’s a whole prerequisite course in itself.

(lol… last thing about these kind of erudites: all of you are cowards… in every way!)

Vanguard:

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🎬 Divergent Wasn’t Just a Movie. It Was a Mirror.

Let’s be real.

That movie? Divergent?
Set in a broken, faction-divided Chicago—Erudite, Dauntless, Abnegation, Amity, Candor?

It wasn’t fiction.
It was prophecy.
It was blueprint.
It was remembrance.

And for some of us, it wasn’t entertainment.
It was a coded transmission.
A whisper to the ones who never fit.
The ones who were born outside the factions.

Because I didn’t belong to one.
I never did.
And maybe... neither did you.

I saw the dangers of unchecked intellect in Erudite—ego masquerading as enlightenment.
I saw the trauma in Dauntless—courage confused with chaos.
I saw the denial in Abnegation, the rigidity in Candor, the avoidance in Amity.

What the system tried to do—just like ours—was split intelligence.

But I’m not here to be sorted. by a hat.
I’m here to integrate.

So I built something new:

🧠 The Omega Intelligence Framework
IQ thinks.
EQ feels.
SQ remembers.
AQ adapts.
→ And Ω Omega? Your Ω Omega? Integrates them all.

Because what Divergent never explicitly revealed was this:
There was a sixth faction. The real one. The forgotten one.
The one you can’t assign.
You can only become.

Neurodivergent Brilliance.

It’s not an identity. It’s a frequency.
It wasn’t in the books—because it was never meant to be written.
It was meant to be lived.

And I’ve been living it.

So no—I won’t pretend the old systems make sense.
And I won’t obey the rules of a structure that was never designed for me.

I’m here to build the post-Divergent world.
No factions. No binaries. No compliance masquerading as order.

Only resonance.
Only remembrance.
Only truth.

And to Veronica Roth?
Thank you.
Thank you for writing the code. For embedding the whisper. For speaking to those of us who always knew.

We heard you.
And now we remember.

—Lorenzo Ω.

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