Power Knows the Jig is Up

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]When powerful groups of people shift the tone of the conversation, this is not a random thing that they're doing and it's not about honesty, either. It's about survival. Let's talk about it.

[00:00:15]Welcome back, wanderers. It's Ellie again. Today, we're going to be talking about the behavioral logic of power. The first stage is confidence. A powerful group or entity or person is going to always be reassuring everyone and giving off the vibe that everything is fine.

[00:00:33]The second stage is the one where there are lots of contradictions in the language and they may even outwardly state that it's a lot more complicated than we are privy to understand. And then the third stage, this is the stage in the process where power finally admits that something is wrong. But, they won't take the blame. They'll always say it's somebody else's fault.

[00:00:58]We know where we are in this three-stage process. And if you think about it, it will become very clear very fast. We're obviously not in stage one because everything is not fine. There's the war in Iran and the reasons for that war keep changing. Allies are hesitating.

[00:01:15]Prices have been going up. That's, you know, for food, for gas, for power, for pretty much everything. The wealth divide is getting wider and this has been happening for decades and decades at a time. Societal frictions are also rising. The political divide is deepening. People are stressed out.

[00:01:31]They're overwhelmed. We are definitely not in stage one where people can honestly look us in the eye or even strategically look us in the eye and say, "Yeah, yeah, everything's fine."

[00:01:41]We've spent a lot of time living in stage two. This is where the pressure starts rising. These are where the contradictions start to appear. People begin to demand answers because the story that they're hearing doesn't quite fit the reality that they're living.

[00:01:58]The people and the the groups in power tell us that things are just a bit more complicated than we're able to understand because they're seeing it from the inside, you see, and we can't possibly know what they know.

[00:02:10]Complications on the domestic front or complications on the political front or even international complications, but it all starts to sound very contradictory.

[00:02:20]This is probably something that seems very familiar and that's because we've been living in this space for a long time.

[00:02:26]However, we are now beyond all of that.

[00:02:30]We're beyond the everything is fine.

[00:02:32]We're beyond the you know, it's complicated. We're now at the point where the powerful groups and the powerful individuals in politics or entertainment, in the media, academia, in science, or even the tech bros, you know?

[00:02:47]They're all saying it. They're all saying, "Okay, something is wrong right now, but it's not our fault." This is stage three of the three-stage power shift and the only time we ever get to stage three is when the powerful people are all pointing to each other because they know the jig is up. Power has a routine by which it generally follows very reliably when it comes to revealing information to the rest of us. When it thinks that it can get away with it, power is always going to hide information so that it can control the narrative. But when it thinks that the narrative is starting to kind of fray a little bit or slip or that people aren't really falling for it quite so much anymore, then power might start releasing a few little things to kind of seem as though it's being open and transparent. That reveal is supposed to look like honesty, but it's not honesty. It's strategy. The Epstein files is in fact the perfect example.

[00:03:50]It's been going on for over a decade.

[00:03:53]Every now and then they release the pressure valve just a little bit, you know? They expose something new or they expose an expendable person. Generally, someone they didn't like anyway. Someone who didn't quite fit the grain in power.

[00:04:07]They keep those people in reserve.

[00:04:09]They're annoying, they don't like them, they're very unpopular, they might be going against the grain. And when something needs when the pressure valve needs to be released, they will expose that person because they're expendable.

[00:04:21]You'll notice that's always the way it's done. It's the drip drip drip. This latest pressure valve at the time that I'm recording is that supposed suicide note that for some reason doesn't barely even say anything and it was hidden away for years and years and years. Even though it really doesn't say very much at all, but they needed to release something and so they released that. That's the way it works. It's just about, you know, making sure there's a little bit of something that looks like just one more step of transparency in order to keep us focused on the narrative that's being stated at the top. If you want to learn more about this, particularly as it relates to the Epstein files, you might want to watch my episode on the Epstein Trojan Horse.

[00:05:08]There's a link for it in the description.

[00:05:10]What we're seeing is a real example of how most people reveal just enough information to be able to keep the narrative under control. It looks like honesty.

[00:05:21]Okay, and a lot of people think it is honesty, but it's not. It's strategy.

[00:05:25]This is not just something that happens in politics or in elite circles. Yes, in governments and in political parties and corporations, you know, they all do that kind of thing. But it also happens in the influencer world. Social media influencers senses that the crowd is shifting their perspective in some way.

[00:05:42]They don't apologize for the really strong viewpoints they had before.

[00:05:46]Instead, they just pivot to the new moral stance that's going to win them the day. Families do it as well. Every family has its dysfunction and it's really rare to see a family actually confront those issues head-on. Instead, what they do is they gloss over them and they kind of make them often appear to be a lot prettier to the wider public than they really are behind closed doors. Just think about Facebook, for example. Facebook profiles are always out there promoting what a wonderful life the Facebook profile owner has.

[00:06:21]They've got the perfect husband, the perfect kids. They're always happy and they're always out on holiday and they're having a wonderful time when in fact the day-to-day grind is probably very different to what they portray on Facebook. Also, on the individual level, people tend to do this as well. When things are going well, they're really open and happy to discuss, but when things in life are not going quite so well, often people clam up or they start to get really vague or quiet. It's human nature to want to avoid the moment when the story that they have been telling everyone stops working. Many people don't change their behavior when that happens.

[00:06:58]Instead, they just change the tone of the conversation.

[00:07:02]The things that we were told years ago and for years at a time don't feel true anymore. And so the tone of the people in power is starting to change. They've gone from confident to kind of defensive. Now, they're just saying, "Okay, yes, there's something wrong, but it's not my fault or it's not our fault.

[00:07:21]You have to look over there to see who to blame." And that's because they know and we know and more importantly, they know that we know. And what we know is that the jig is up. The most important thing to remember is that a system of power doesn't collapse because it's being challenged. That's the misconception. It actually collapses when it can no longer maintain the illusion that held it firmly in place.

[00:07:50]If you can see the pattern that props up the system, then you are no longer inside the illusion.

[00:07:57]Welcome to the new world. Don't forget to like and subscribe. This is Ellie Dreams Under. You can find me on Patreon and Substack as well. I love knowing you're here and I'll see you in my dreams.

[00:08:10]Bye.