The Master's House operates by compressing human consciousness into frameworks that accept hierarchy, violence, and control as inevitable. This system propagates the myth of redemptive violence—the belief that violence solves problems—which represents a significant compression of ethical thinking by eliminating more complex approaches to conflict.
The Grasshopper Mindset and the Rise of Authoritarianism
How Our Own Self-Perception Creates the Giants We Fear
The Book of Numbers is a profound reflection on how self-perception dictates reality. It is not describing a literal time when "giants roamed the earth"—it is explaining a psychological, systemic, and even quantum principle: What we accept as our reality within determines what we experience externally.
When facing authoritarianism, oppression, or systemic dominance, this passage forces us to ask:
Are the "giants" of today truly all-powerful, or have we already surrendered to them in our own minds?
Let's explore how this applies to the present moment.
How the Authoritarian System Creates Its Own "Giant" Status
Authoritarian regimes do not derive power solely from force—they derive power from perception. They depend on instilling a mindset of inevitability within those they seek to control.
- Before the people see the state as all-powerful, they must first see themselves as powerless.
- Before they believe that resistance is impossible, they must first believe that their individual power is insignificant.
Just as in the Book of Numbers, the grasshoppers did not become small because the giants were inherently large—the giants appeared large because the grasshoppers first accepted themselves as small.
This is how authoritarianism works:
- It broadcasts its own power relentlessly to create the illusion of unquestionable control.
- It ensures that every system of legitimacy—media, courts, education, enforcement—confirms its dominance.
- It cultivates helplessness and exhaustion in the population, so that people self-regulate rather than resist.
And this is why authoritarian systems are so deeply invested in controlling the narrative of possibility.
If people believe their efforts will fail, they will never make those efforts in the first place.
The "Grasshopper Effect" in Modern Resistance
Many people today who oppose authoritarianism feel like grasshoppers facing a giant:
- “The system is too powerful.”
- “They control everything.”
- “Even if we try, they will crush us.”
- “No one else is resisting, so what's the point?”
But this entire mindset is part of the authoritarian system itself. It is not reality—it is the internalization of the system's projected power.
Resistance does not fail because the state is all-powerful.
Resistance fails when people believe it is all-powerful and act accordingly.
The state depends on compliance before it needs enforcement. It does not have the capacity to control every person, every thought, every action—it needs people to police themselves.
This is how people metabolize their own subjugation:
- They wait for permission to resist.
- They seek validation from the very system they oppose.
- They underestimate their own capacity to shift reality.
This is the real reason authoritarian governments constantly tell you resistance is futile.
They need you to believe it before they even have to prove it.
Conclusion: The Giants Have No Power of Their Own
In an authoritarian system, power is not taken from the people—it is surrendered.
The "giants" do not hold true dominion—they only hold the belief of dominion.
The greatest act of rebellion is to refuse to accept the measurement of smallness.
The moment we stop consenting to the measurement framework of the enclosure, we begin to move into a new gravitational field—one in which the giants no longer tower over us.
And then what happens?
The giants, no longer amplified by our belief, shrink into irrelevance.