The Crime Is Not Control — It’s Amnesia

 

Power has always controlled.

That is not the scandal.

The scandal is that no one remembers it ever being otherwise.

The final evolution of the Divine Right was not domination—it was forgetting. Forgetting that power once needed crowns. Forgetting that obedience once required force. Forgetting that submission was ever named as such.

When people forget, control no longer feels imposed. It feels normal.

Amnesia is the most stable form of rule.

Kings ruled bodies. Systems rule memory. They do not need you to obey if they can convince you that nothing else ever existed. That the current order is not a choice, not a construction, not a strategy—but reality itself.

This is why history is constantly rewritten, softened, reframed.

Revolutions are romanticized. Tyranny is isolated to villains. Structures are absolved. Continuity is erased. Every era is presented as an improvement, even when the mechanisms of control have only become more refined.

If the past is crude, the present feels enlightened.

If the past was brutal, the present feels humane.

If the past was obvious, the present feels invisible.

And invisibility is power’s greatest achievement.

Modern authority does not want your loyalty. It wants your memory erased. It wants you unable to articulate what freedom even looks like. It wants resistance to feel childish, outdated, irrational—something that belonged to a darker age.

Once people forget that power can be challenged, they stop challenging it.

Once people forget that obedience was trained, they believe it is instinct.

Once people forget that alternatives existed, they defend the system that erased them.

This is why awareness is dangerous.

Memory restores contrast. Contrast reveals choice. Choice threatens legitimacy.

That is why those who remember are dismissed as radicals, conspiracy theorists, nostalgists, extremists. Memory itself is framed as instability. Forgetting is called maturity.

But maturity that cannot remember is not wisdom.

It is domestication.

The Divine Right of Kings was not defeated by enlightenment. It was perfected by forgetting. By distributing authority so widely that no one could name it. By embedding rule into infrastructure so deeply that questioning it feels like questioning gravity.

You are not oppressed because oppression no longer announces itself.

You are governed by what you have been trained not to see, not to question, not to remember.

And that is the final inheritance of the crown.

Not a ruler.

Not a throne.

But a population so thoroughly conditioned that control no longer feels like control—and freedom no longer feels possible.

The crime is not that power persists.

The crime is that you were taught to forget that it ever ruled you at all.

And remembrance—quiet, precise, unflinching—is the only act that has ever threatened kings.

The Crown You Forgot to Question — a deeper examination of how divine authority evolved into modern systems of control. Click the link below to read.

https://www.scribd.com/document/981232959/The-Crown-You-Forgot-to-Question

Crowns Without Consent: The Divine Right That Never Died — an unfiltered audio exploration of power, consent, and the structures that replaced the crown. Click the link below to listen.

https://danderton2019.podbean.com/e/crowns-without-consent-the-divine-right-that-never-died/