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Part 5: Rearview Series
“The War on the Person in the Mirror”

By Michael Stevens


The War on the Mirror: Identity, Memory, and the New Front Line

The final terrain of PsyWar isn’t a border, a courtroom, or a campaign. It’s the mirror, and a face you will soon no longer recognize.

This is the war to control how you see yourself—and how your children are taught to see the world. Reality isn’t argued anymore. It’s rewritten. And the mirror has become the battlefield.

You are no longer allowed to know who you are.


Psychological Warfare of the Self

Surveillance isn’t just about tracking. It’s about modeling. Your habits, clicks, tone, and associations are used to predict what you’ll believe, say, or fear. The goal isn’t to watch you. It’s to remake you.

The system doesn’t need to punish you. It just needs to filter you out of visibility, opportunity, and memory.

You won’t be banned. You’ll just stop existing in the places that count.

This is social control by preemptive design.


Memory Control Begins with Language

You’re told gender is a spectrum. Biology is hate. Faith is extremism. History is oppression. Tradition is a threat.

None of these is debated. They’re installed.

Questioning them isn’t treated as ignorance. It’s treated as a danger.

This isn’t discourse. It’s conditioning.

And the mirror? It must not reflect what is—it must reflect what the narrative requires.


The Assault on Children

This war starts early.

Schools have become indoctrination zones. Parental rights are treated as interference. Pronouns are enforced. Books are censored—not to protect minds, but to mold them. Science is politicized. Morality is repackaged.

Children are no longer taught to seek the truth. They’re trained to echo it, but now it is a programmed, Orwellian, pre-approved, sanitized, and state-aligned “truth”. Indoctrination isn’t accidental—it’s curriculum.

And if parents object, they’re branded. Monitored. Investigated.

The message is clear: the child does not belong to the parent. The child belongs to the system.


The DEI Machine and Institutional Conformity

Colleges once championed free thought. Now they enforce ideological obedience.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) has become a gatekeeping doctrine. It’s no longer about opportunity—it’s about conformity, and the cost is freedom.

In Florida, DEI offices are being dismantled by law. In Washington, federal funding is tied to whether schools comply with shifting directives. Meanwhile, elite institutions like Harvard (with an endowment over $50 billion) and Columbia (over $13 billion) have chosen to defend DEI policies in the name of academic freedom—even if it means rejecting federal research grants in health and science.

They call it principle, but it looks more like institutional arrogance—stiff-necked loyalty to politicized orthodoxy at the expense of medical breakthroughs, public trust, and intellectual integrity.

The academy is no longer a marketplace of ideas. It’s a loyalty test.

Students are pressured to adopt the script, and administrators walk a line between appeasement and fear. Objectivity is dangerous, and silence is complicity. Faith is flagged, and doubt is penalized.

Truth is now a liability.


Faith Must Be Redefined

Biblical conviction has no place in a programmable society.

Faith teaches limits. Boundaries. Purpose. Identity rooted in something higher than the state. That makes it a threat.

Churches are told to stay quiet or lose status. Pastors are pushed to dilute Scripture. Believers are portrayed as radical, judgmental, and unsafe.

The powers that be even closed churches and took license plate numbers while keeping the liquor stores open during the Chinese COVID “Pandemic.” Their cure for that scare was a DNA-altering therapy shot masquerading as a vaccine, which neither protected nor prevented transmission of the man-made virus.

The war on faith isn’t open. It’s bureaucratic. Zoning laws. Tax threats. Speech restrictions. Social stigma. The goal isn’t to outlaw belief. It’s to isolate it—until even the faithful start whispering in their pews.


You’re Being Scored

The world you see isn’t neutral. It’s engineered.

Just like in Communist China, a soft version of the social credit system is now being built in America. It punishes deviation, rewards conformity, and hides behind corporate partnerships and algorithmic design.

ESG ratings. DEI surveys. Algorithmic rankings. Invisible compliance structures that determine what you see, what you’re offered, and what you’re allowed to do.

You don’t have to believe the wrong thing. You only have to hesitate. Question. Miss a training. Fail to endorse.

And slowly, your digital profile dims. No platform. No loan. No seat at the table.

You’re not punished. You’re just excluded.

By Michael Stevens

About the Author – Michael Stevens Retired attorney. Military veteran. Bible trundler. Michael Stevens writes with the precision of a jurist and the conviction of a watchman. His work draws from decades of service, study, and Scripture — weaving together law, history, theology, and culture in a clear, Hemingway-style voice. Whether exploring the Gospel through the lens of classical philosophy, warning of soft totalitarianism, or unpacking the latest headlines with biblical discernment, he writes for readers who value truth over trends and legacy over likes. His devotionals and essays, often crafted for his son, aim to encourage, equip, and awaken. This is more than commentary. It’s a call to clarity in a noisy world.

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