the increasing use of the monetary system as a surveillance mechanism, thereby endangering or destroying political and financial freedom; the political, technological, and economic forces behind this development (including the war on drugs and the growth of the national security state in the digital age); the technologies of political control whereby governments practice the very things they condemn (including money-laundering, drug-dealing, and terrorism) and then (or in order to) invoke the same as justification for enslaving their citizens; the technologies, political and economic understanding, and philosphical perspective that a sovereign individual needs to reverse the erosion of his own liberty in this hostile environment; the key insight that liberation begins in the individual's own mind, and that techniques of propaganda, persuasion, and brainwashing program individuals to create prisons for themselves in dutiful submission to their political, economic, and religious overlords.