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A Nation for Sale: Corruption Under the Black Circle

Leave a Comment / Creative / AJB / February 11, 2025 / authoritarianism, Black Circle, corporate greed, dystopian America, Dystopian fiction, economic inequality, financial oppression, government fraud, Magnus Vail, media manipulation, misinformation, oligarchy, political corruption, propaganda, the Chairman, wealth divide

The Black Circle had turned corruption into policy. The economy boomed—for the elite. The Chairman’s followers cheered as he sold the country piece by piece, drowning them in propaganda while the rich lined their pockets. Cora and Alex saw the truth, but it didn’t matter. The firehose of lies was too strong. The people believed what they needed to believe.

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The History of Magnus Vail

Leave a Comment / Creative / AJB / February 7, 2025 / AI surveillance, authoritarian regime, billionaire elite, corporate dystopia, Dystopian fiction, economic control, financial tyranny, free speech hypocrisy, government takeover, industrialist elite, manipulation and deceit, oligarchy, political corruption, political thriller, power behind the throne, propaganda machine, rewriting history, surveillance state, tech mogul, war profiteering

Magnus Vail had never been a builder. He had never invented, never pioneered, never created. He took, reshaped, and erased those who had done the work before him. He bought his way into success, rewrote history to place himself at the center of it, and convinced the world he was a genius. His empire was built on deception, his wealth a product of manipulation. And yet, by the time he stood at the right hand of the Chairman, it no longer mattered how he got there.

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The American Dream
The truth was never hidden, just ignored. America was never a land of equal opportunity, never a fair fight. It was built on extraction, on stolen land, on exploited labor. The so-called Founding Fathers were not visionaries—they were profiteers, carving up a continent for themselves and their heirs, writing laws that would ensure power never left their bloodlines. The dream they sold was a lie, but an easy one, easier than the hard truth that the system was never meant to work for the people.
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It had been buried beneath old receipts and broken cables, forgotten in the back of Alex’s desk drawer. She almost tossed it aside, just another piece of junk left behind in a world that no longer existed. But something stopped her. A whisper in the back of her mind. A ghost of his voice.
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People weren’t afraid. They were asleep. The Chairman’s rule wasn’t about brute force; it was about exhaustion, apathy, and distraction. Every day, a new outrage. Every week, a new enemy. And people adjusted. They stopped expecting things to make sense. By the time they realized what had happened, it was too late—easier to just go back to sleep.
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