Constitutional Mythology
The Death of the American Constitution
The United States Constitution, once a foundation, now lingers as a spectre, a myth whispered through digital corridors and armed congressional halls. The parchment is intact, the ink remains, for now... but the contract is void. Not through formal repeal, not through revolution, but through neglect, convenience, and the slow, methodical suffocation of meaning.
This moment is the quiet cutting of her throat from behind, and America is left blinking, gasping, still not understanding, as her blood pours into the dirt, and the light fades in the distance.
The Constitution was not just a charter of governance, but a living force, a collective belief that bound together a people in the fragile artifice of a republic. For over two centuries, it was myth and mechanism, structure and story, law and legend.
That time is over.
The Constitution is now a ghost. It lingers, but it does not rule. It is referenced, but it is not followed. It is quoted, but not upheld. The institutions it created still exist, but they serve a different master. The government still functions, but not under its dictates. The people still vote, still pledge allegiance, still invoke their rights, but these words are spoken into the wind.
The truth is simpler, colder, and harder to accept: the Constitution no longer governs the United States because the people of the United States no longer believe in it.
The First Article: The Hollowing of Representation
The first breath of the Constitution was its establishment of Congress, representative government, the deliberative body of the people. The First Article was supposed to be its heart, the safeguard against the consolidation of power. But over the centuries, the disease set in.
Congress no longer legislates; it negotiates its own irrelevance. Laws are not passed by elected officials engaging in public debate but by the quiet hands of corporate lobbyists, bureaucratic agencies, and unelected policymakers. The mechanisms of governance have shifted away from deliberation and towards administration, away from accountable representatives and towards a permanent ruling class.
The federal budget is passed in omnibus bills no one reads, trillion-dollar debts are shrugged off, and war powers are ceded to executives who no longer ask permission to wage war. The people vote, but their choices are illusions. The parties do not govern by principles, but by inertia. Red and blue trade power like old men passing a bottle, and each administration builds upon the last, consolidating, expanding, entrenching.
Article I was meant to keep the government in check. Instead, it has become the legal fiction that justifies its unchecked rule.
The First Amendment: Speech at the Pleasure of the Algorithm
The First Amendment was once sacred. It was the declaration that ideas—no matter how dangerous, radical, or offensive—could be spoken without fear of reprisal. It was the bulwark against tyranny, the assurance that no matter how powerful the state became, it could never silence the people.
That promise has been broken.
Speech is still permitted, but only within the boundaries set by the new architects of control. The government no longer needs to censor when corporations will do it for them. Free expression is now contingent on algorithmic approval. Step outside the parameters of acceptable discourse, and you will not be jailed, you will be erased. Your accounts will vanish. Your reach will be throttled. Your name will be flagged. The state does not silence dissenters anymore; it simply ensures they cannot be heard.
Journalism, once a counterbalance to power, has become its instrument. The press does not question authority; it amplifies it. The "free press" now serves as a filter, ensuring that only the right narratives reach the public. Those who step beyond the sanctioned storyline find their careers destroyed, their credibility shattered, their presence removed.
And so, the First Amendment remains, but it no longer protects. It exists only as an illusion, a permission slip that can be revoked at any time.
The Rest Falls Like Dominoes
The death of the First means the death of the rest.
The Second Amendment, the last resort against tyranny... in our times is clearly a joke based on marketing and ad sales. I would guess within 90 days this reality lands.
The Fourth Amendment, meant to shield against unreasonable searches, is a dead letter in an age where every device is a surveillance tool. Your phone listens. Your camera watches. Your metadata is stored, analyzed, cross-referenced, and sold. The state does not need warrants when the people willingly carry tracking devices in their pockets. ICE is picking up any person, regardless of citizenship, and deporting them to foreign jails without so much as looking at their ID.
The Tenth Amendment, the firewall of federalism, is nothing more than a forgotten footnote. The federal government was meant to be limited, restrained, subservient to the states and the people. Instead, it has metastasized, consuming every sphere of life. The idea of state sovereignty is now as quaint as powdered wigs.
The Constitution was designed to be a cage for government. Instead, it has become a cage for those who still believe it has meaning.
What Comes Next?
We are no longer governed by law, but by power—raw, shifting, and unapologetic. The structures remain, but the foundations have crumbled. There is no returning to what was. There is only what comes next.
And that choice is no longer made in the halls of Congress or the chambers of the Supreme Court. It is made in the hearts and minds of those who see the world as it is and ask:
What will we build in its place?
This is not a call to mourn, nor to rage blindly at the tide. It is a demand to see. To recognize the world as it is, not as it was supposed to be. To understand that the myths we were raised on have crumbled, and that whatever comes next will be built not on parchment, but on power—real, tangible, and ruthless.
If you are waiting for the Constitution to save you, stop. It's not coming back.
If you are waiting for the system to correct itself, stop. It's working exactly as designed.
If you are waiting for permission to act, to think, to decide your own course—stop. No one is coming to give it to you.
You are unbound.
Now, what will you do with that?
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The US Constitution is now mythology. Americans are no longer bound by it, and do not acknowledge its existence, or its value. The first article, and the first amendment, no longer hold true. Which makes the rest just words in the winds of network rule.
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