“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back… she would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward.” - Aslan, C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Recently Tried in the Court of Public Opinion

In Re: Power Through Fear (Institutional Collapse v. Truth & Love)


Why Power Through Fear is Unsustainable — and Why Truth (Love) Always Wins

Filed Date: 17 August 2025
Reference Code: SWANK–TRUTH–POWER
PDF Filename: 2025-08-17_SWANK_TruthOverFear_Manifesto.pdf
Filed by: Polly Chromatic, Director
Summary: An evidentiary reflection on why institutions collapse when they weaponise fear, and why truth, care, and love endure.

I. Fear as a Temporary Tool

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” — Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Fear is efficient in the short term. It freezes. It silences. It coerces compliance. But fear is brittle. Sun Tzu recognised that strength lies not in intimidation, but in knowledge and alignment with truth.

Institutions that rely on fear (reprimands in contact, threats of removal, weaponised reports) do not create loyalty — they create resistance.

II. The Machiavellian Error

“It is better to be feared than loved, if one cannot be both.” — Machiavelli, The Prince

Machiavelli’s famous dictum is frequently misquoted as license for cruelty. What he actually understood is that fear is unstable if not underpinned by respect. When fear replaces truth and care, rulers (or social workers) sow the seeds of their own downfall.

The Local Authority reads only half of Machiavelli. They never notice the warnings in the second half.

III. Robert Greene and the Seduction of Control

“Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.” — Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

Greene documents power’s theatrical tricks. But his work, read deeply, shows that manipulation is exhausting. It requires endless cover-ups, new lies to protect old lies, and escalating hostility. Eventually, the performance collapses under its own contradictions.

Fear-mongers never sleep well.

IV. Foucault and Surveillance as Decay

“Where there is power, there is resistance.” — Michel Foucault

Foucault saw that power sustained by surveillance and control breeds resistance by design. The very attempt to dominate creates counter-forces. Social workers who monitor birthdays, censor conversations, and pathologise medical conditions reveal not strength, but fragility.

Every act of institutional fear is also an admission of weakness.

V. SWANK’s Position: Truth (Love) as Structural Victory

Fear is fast, but it burns out. Truth is slow, but it builds foundations.
Fear isolates; truth connects.
Fear suppresses speech; truth multiplies voices.

Love — in the sense of committed care, lawful parenting, and fidelity to evidence — is structurally undefeatable. It renews itself across generations, cultures, and institutions.

The Local Authority mistakes fear for strength. They do not realise they are burning their own scaffolding.


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