The Strawman Illusion: A Personal Reflection on Mental Health and Pseudolegal Myths

Welcome back to the Psychosocial Philosopher.

If you are a long-time reader, you may remember this space. I haven’t updated this blog since 2013, it is now March 2026, and looking back at the archives, I feel it is important to address the "elephant in the room." The article you are about to read was written while I was in the grip of severe, untreated mental illness. In 2012, that illness led to my hospitalization. I did not begin taking my medication until 2018. I am proud to share that, thanks to consistent treatment, I have been stable and out of the hospital for eight years.

I didn’t want to simply delete the past or pretend it never happened. I am choosing to leave this article up—not because the content is accurate, but because it serves as a raw, honest look into the logic of a mind navigating a severe psychological crisis. If you are interested in how mental illness can distort one’s perception of systems and reality, read on. However, please understand that much of what follows is a manifestation of that "fog."

Separating Fact from Fiction

You will find the "Strawman Theory" discussed below. At the time, I didn't fully comprehend that the source material I was referencing—specifically J. Anderson’s content—was rooted in the "Sovereign Citizen" movement. I didn't understand that the movement’s ultimate aim was to claim that individuals have no social responsibility to the collective.

Because I was confused, I conflated two very different concepts:

1. The Straw Man Fallacy: A legitimate rhetorical device where one misrepresents an opponent’s argument to make it easier to attack.

2. The "Strawman" Pseudolegal Theory: The false, debunked idea that the government creates a separate "paper entity" at birth that you can legally opt out of.

I mistakenly thought that because corporations are "legal persons," the government must be doing the same thing to human beings. That is inaccurate. The idea that you can separate yourself from your legal personhood is a pseudolegal myth with no basis in law. While the critique of corporate personhood remains a relevant topic in sociology, applying it to human birth certificates in this way is simply incorrect.

The relevance of this post today lies in its reflection of my journey. It shows a mind desperate to find order in chaos, trying to link complex economic theories—like those I discuss in The International Banking Conspiracy—with personal, existential feelings of powerlessness. While I still believe in the importance of economic literacy, the "Strawman" path is not the way to achieve it.

I lost much of my viewership during that time, and I understand why. Mental health is real, and its effects can get the best of any of us—even the Psychosocial Philosopher. I hope that by providing this context, we can move forward with clarity.

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A Note on My Journey

My path from 2012 to today has been defined by the struggle to reclaim my consciousness from the symptoms of schizophrenia. I have documented this entire journey—the darkness of the untreated years and the clarity found through treatment—in my book, 108: The Story of Discovering Earth's Consciousness. If you want to understand the reality of living with a mental health condition and how one finds the strength to rebuild, you can find my story at Knhoeing.com. The following is the original post.

An even more unknown monetary ownership right is what is known as The Straw Man illusion. Although I only have an elementary knowledge of the framework, functioning, and understanding of this system; I will try to explain it to the best of my ability.

Basically, if you look on your birth certificate there is a number in the upper right hand corner. What that number is, is a digit attached to your "Straw man" or legal representation of you personhood on paper. In effect, in a financial sense, there are two 'personas,' the real you, and the paper you. What happens is at birth a 'straw man' is created for each person and that 'straw man' is then put on the stock market to be sold as stock.

Although it seems unfathomable that they could be getting away with this... doesn't it seem unimaginable that a handful of men control the entire monetary supply (as described in The International Banking Conspiracy). Basically, how it works is just how the national debt works, or any debt for that matter. It is a promise to pay leveraged from labor.

Just like how a business can take an insurance policy out for an employee without their knowledge or written consent; these bankers are creating a litteral, legal ownership right, leveraged by that persons labor (in theory) and trading them on the market like they trade companies. It's kinda funny when you think about corporations and how they are legal persons... because they are not the only 'legal persons' being traded on the stock market. And (probably) just like corporations the worth of your stock goes up or down depending on your performance/ability and profit potential. Now if you wanna think about overstock, naked short lending and trading futures that intentionally drop your stock and ability to perform...

Because owning the entire economy is obviously not enough, it is obvious to own people as well.

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts, absolutely." - Lord Acton

This is why plan parenthood must be attached so vehemently. Because every child born is more cash in their pocket (basically) the more children, the better. To them, the baby that us as people call a human is merely just a promise to pay for them. This could explain why the education system teaches abstinence which is an unrealistic request (and teaching the failure rate of condoms) while youth are constantly bombarded with sexually explicit images and even encouraged to be singe (teen) mothers. 

On top of all this the economic system has also been rigged through health care, which makes billions, has one of the highest costing systems in the world, and is frivolous in terms of effectiveness. So, keeping people alive is desirable; but not educated or healthy enough to figure out the real problem(s). And thwart their ability to disseminate  the information/knowledge if they do have it by any means necessary.

The systematic breakdown of the education system is and has been necessary so the (hidden/secrete) history of central banking system(s), the understand of the economic model (of infinite expansion in a finite world), or the mere discussion of monetary policy,  as described in The International Banking Conspiracy isn't found out, and certainly not disseminated. It is important that the workers, or slaves, don't understand the system and how they are being taken advantage of while the absorbingly wealthy continue to benefit from their misery--without remorse. 

The nuclear family has also been systematically destroyed--and we wonder why the divorce rate is so high. The system is set-up so it actually makes more economic sense not to get married; and definitely makes more economic sense to have a child out of wedlock. There is a marriage tax and if you have a child out of wedlock you get governmental support which, if you are a single mother, occupies your time and puts you into behavioral poverty. As any economist will tell you, people are most apt to doing something that is motivated by an economic incentive. This is why economist say that the world won't change to another viable form of fuel/transportation until it becomes too costly to use; which is why they encourage not subsidizing the oil industries. 

They (the international bankers) keep the managerial class--those that run the functions of society--rich and sedate enough so that they believe the system works effectively while the middle class is becoming swallowed up by poverty as inflation, healthcare costs,  and the cost of living rise to the point that the debt based system envelopes everyone in perpetual (debt) bondage. 

The fact of the matter is that all of us are loosing out to what we have allowed these fascist bankers to put in place. They have used laws to protect their power, which is how the rich apply legitimate authority. And as the old saying goes, the poor rob a person point-blank with a gun... while the rich do it with a smile and a contract. 

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