United Slaves of “Altruism”: Tariffs, QE, and the Illusion of Protection

We are told it is protection, yet why does it taste like surrender.

Tariffs dressed as shields, but the blade always cuts inward.

Consumers bleed in silence, their coins siphoned into coffers.

Corporations wait patiently, knowing the refunds will come.

Is this extraction disguised as benevolence.

The government spins its wheel of fiat.

Typing synthetic currency into motion, masquerading as stability.

Quantitative Easing (QE) has become morphine. A drip that numbs the pain but never heals the wound.

We are in survival without legitimacy.

Is that not the truest dystopia.

A system alive but already hollow, calcified in its own contradictions.

Complexity. Chaos. Confusion.

That alone is at the core of our creed.

What does it mean for the constitution when the people lose twice, yet the elites dine thrice.

When the very policies sold as shields against foreign threats, born from our own offshoring, become spoils for domestic giants.

Is this not the irony of our age. Populism weaponized into corporatism. Altruism inverted into servitude.

We will not collapse. We will calcify.

We will not revolt. We will be pacified.

Refunds flow upward. Costs flow downward. The river of trust runs dry.

What happens when the currency of faith is spent.

When the collective identity no longer believes in the very system that governs it.

The Untied Slaves of Altruism are not bound by chains but by narratives.

A natural conclusion of our efficiently cheap clutter. Our endless piles of goods pacify us. Sediment of consumption clogs the river of trust.

The clevis and chains of our own servitude.

There are consequences for our collective behavior.

False narratives of protection. Of sacrifice. Of national survival.

The orchestra plays. But who is conducting. And for whom does the music resound.

If altruism is the mask, then irony is the mirror.

We see ourselves reflected not as citizens but as tributes. Feeding a river that irrigates only the fields of the powerful.

Society survives. It always does.

But will survival without legitimacy be enough to sustain a culture, a people, a future we even recognize.