From the Desk of Kiler Davenport

In Honor of Rassool Jibraeel Snyman (2012) Rassool Jibraeel Snyman did not write poetry for comfort. He wrote to awaken, to unsettle, to remind humanity of what it had forgotten beneath systems of power, fear, and illusion. The Dragon is not merely a poem—it is a warning, a memory, and a call. His words confront the machinery of oppression not with despair, but with defiance. He understood that the greatest monsters are not born of myth, but of consent, silence, and seduction. And yet, even in his darkest visions, he left space for the watchers, the warriors, the quiet resistors who remember who they were before the chains. Rassool saw that tyranny is cyclical, that it sheds skins and returns in new forms. But he also believed that so do truth, courage, and revolt. Though he passed from this world in October of 2012, his voice did not leave it. His words still move through the shadows, reminding us that the dragon never fully dies—and neither does the will to rise. This piece sta...

“Evolution feels like separation before it feels like progress.” There’s a moment when you realize you’ve grown beyond your surroundings. The conversations feel smaller. The expectations feel tighter. The environment feels misaligned. This is decoherence — the moment your inner world outgrows your outer world. People describe it as disconnection, but it’s actually transition. Your internal frequency has changed, and not everyone or everything can match it. Decoherence is not a crisis. It is a signal. A sign you’re shifting into your next phase. The Lone Wolf doesn’t cling to the patterns that fall apart during this process. They observe. They adapt. They step into the new alignment emerging from the split. What doesn’t resonate falls away. What remains becomes foundation. What appears in the open space becomes destiny. Step into the shift. #TheLoneWolf #Decoherence #LifeTransition #InnerShift #OutgrowingTheOld #EvolutionOfSelf #2026Mindset #AwarenessPath

  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 e...

  Kings once ruled territory. Now they rule attention . This is the most significant shift in power since the fall of monarchies, and almost no one recognizes it as rule at all. Land can be defended. Borders can be crossed. But attention—once captured—governs thought itself. The throne is no longer elevated stone. It is a glowing rectangle in your hand. Power no longer needs armies when it controls visibility. What you see determines what feels real. What feels real determines what you fear. What you fear determines how you behave. This is not influence. It is governance. Digital platforms did not simply connect people. They reorganized hierarchy. Algorithms decide who is heard, who is elevated, who disappears into silence. No decree is issued. No explanation is required. The outcome simply appears . And because it appears personalized, people trust it. Kings once claimed divine insight. Modern systems claim relevance. This is what matters. This is trending. This is for you. Na...

  Power no longer needs to be taken. It needs to be agreed to . This is the quiet evolution that made modern authority nearly untouchable. Kings once ruled by proclamation. Systems now rule by permission. Not real permission— designed consent . The crown learned something essential: force creates martyrs. Consent creates defenders. So power stopped demanding obedience and started engineering choice . You are told you are free because you are allowed to select between options that were never meant to threaten the structure itself. Participation is framed as agency. Compliance is reframed as responsibility. And once you “agree,” resistance becomes illegitimate. This is the modern coronation. No throne. No crown. Just a checkbox. “I accept.” “I understand.” “I agree to the terms.” These phrases function exactly as divine sanction once did. They absolve authority of responsibility and transfer the burden onto the subject. You are no longer ruled—you are accountable . The king once sa...

  The most uncomfortable truth in any discussion of power is this: Oppression survives because it is wanted . Not universally. Not consciously. But deeply enough to matter. People like to believe they are ruled against their will. That tyranny is imposed from above, that domination is something done to them. This belief preserves innocence. It allows outrage without self-examination. But history tells a harsher story. Kings did not rule by force alone. They ruled because enough people found relief in being ruled . Freedom is not the natural human state. It is a learned discipline. And discipline is frightening. A king removes responsibility. A ruler absorbs uncertainty. A hierarchy tells you where you belong. When fear outweighs agency, submission becomes attractive. This is the part no revolution likes to admit. When systems collapse, people do not immediately seek autonomy. They seek order . They look for someone to decide. Someone to command. Someone to promise safety in exch...

  When divine authority stopped working, power didn’t panic. It adapted. God was never the engine—He was the interface . A way to make rule unquestionable, resistance sinful, obedience virtuous. When belief fractured and sacred language lost its grip, authority didn’t weaken. It upgraded. God was replaced by systems . This is the pivot no one talks about. Modern power does not ask you to believe. It asks you to comply. And compliance no longer needs faith. It needs process . The king once ruled by decree. The system rules by procedure. No face. No voice. No emotion. Just steps. Just policy. Just “how things are done.” This is not progress. It is insulation. When authority hides inside systems, no one is responsible—and everyone is. Ask who made the decision and you’ll hear the same response every time: “That’s policy.” “That’s protocol.” “That’s the system.” These phrases function exactly like divine will once did. They end the conversation. They shut down dissent. They erase m...