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A demonstration of the everyday censorship of knowledge production isdifficult. The main obstacle to acquiring it is the clash between thisdemonstration and our individual identity.There are those who are quite frightened by the prospect of being led intoa post-human society. Be it a society in which humans are expendable, replacedby machines, or a society in which humans are transformed into machines, forexample, used to maintaining social distance to avoid pandemics, informed ofwho is sick around them through mobile phones´ applications, conditioned bychips that serve, at the same time, as a vaccine and georeferenced of theposition of each and every one. It would be impossible to imagine the viabilityof such plans if humanity were not already conditioned by mechanisms, socialtechnologies, of which we are not aware. As robotization would not be possiblewithout the prior taylorization and fordization of productive activities, thepost-humanization of society would not be viable without the previousdehumanization of humanity through the misuse of language.Communication between living beings is indispensable to life, evenmicroscopic or vegetal life. The special importance of language, the use ofsymbols in communication, later enhanced by writing, by the democratization ofwriting, by electronic writing, and by the internet, on the one hand, cannot beoverstated and, on the other hand, has been concealed. No conspiracy theory isneeded to show this conspiracy: it is self-evident. It is produced by us,common mortals, including the reader and the scribe here.Better than explaining it is to show it. Imagine that you agree with me onthis: the imperial tradition, carried on by the Roman Catholic Church since thefall of the Empire, is characterized by promoting a misogynistic, elitist, anddisguised state of mind all over the world. The exercise is simple: look atthis banal photograph of St. Peter's Square, sold at Vatican kiosks as probablythe most common souvenir, and think about how this photograph shows and hides,at the same time, the imperial state of mind as defined above. Photo St. Peter's Square, Vatican Anyone can repeat this exercise anywhere with the same result. People,alone or in groups, look at the image and only see still life: a monumentalpart of a city whose symbolic interpretation eludes us. Even when one oranother person has an obvious interpretation of what he sees, he quicklydismisses it as inappropriate. However, what is in sight is obvious and couldhardly be said to be unintentional. It corresponds to an older traditionoriginating in the time of the Pharaohs, a tradition cited by the architectureof the square itself.The photograph, taken from the top of St. Peter's Cathedral, where Godcould be looking down, shows what do see someone looking down on himself: anenchanted avenue-sized phallus, supported by two huge testicles and an Egyptianobelisk that offers a triple dimension to the phallus.St. Peter's Square was built to mean something. Certainly, to impose anempire, at least at the spiritual level. What, from the point of view of thearchitect who designed the site plan, and who hired it and accepted its design,characterizes the spirit of the Empire? The simple answer is a) evidentmisogyny, which can be confirmed in many other ways, including the problem ofChurch agents with child sexual abuse, which has become intractable and hasoccupied that institution in the last two papates; b) Pope Francis, referringto this problem, expressed his opinion that the root cause of the difficulty ofpurging the protections that child sexual abuse practices benefit in theinstitution is clericalism. The expression means the abuse of power practicedin a habitual, naturalized way, which consists of the agents of the papacy consideringthemselves people with the right to privileges, as members of an elite. Sexualabuse, according to the Pope, will be both a radical and indispensableexpression of the privileges self-assigned by organized Vatican agents whoresist policies condemning this type of practice.The demonstration experience that has just been made - and can bereplicated worldwide under Catholic influence - should not be interpreted as anattack on religion or the Church of Rome. It is the Church of Rome that has aknown influence of using language as a spiritual power capable of continuing toresist the fall of the Empire, centuries after it was declared extinct. Helped by many companies,brotherhoods, and religious secret societies, all competing between them and,at the same time, in solidarity in the recreation of covert and misogynistelites, the Church of Rome continues to publicly exercise its misogynistic,elitist and covert services in the name of the Christian ideology. Thisideology, before those who judge it, claims to be alongside the poor and thebrotherhood of all human beings. There is no need to do any scientific researchto demonstrate the existence of censorship of knowledge production within theconscience of each of us, long before Bill Gates become rich making chips.How were these spiritualcognitive chips implanted in people, believers, and non-believers, under theinfluence of the Church's action, even - or above all - in secular societies,as modern societies are?In traditional societies,societies in which religion was the way in which people self-identifiedthemselves, their family and other broader social grouping, the local influenceof Catholic agents (the same happened and still happens with Muslims, Jews, orothers religious agents) was superlative, in the eyes of the laity who today weare. In these societies, the idea of being secular was not even considered.What was at stake was survival: disconnecting from the social support network,becoming a vagabond, represented becoming at the mercy of not only nature butalso social human distrust and violence. With the gradual secularization ofWestern societies, to abolish the religious wars, the wars of identities,individual freedom created a space of self-identification to fill. As Marx andEngels discovered, enslaved workers found in wage labor reasons to live proudlyself-identified with their communities, at the same time in solidarity, mutual,and spiritual aid.The best theory about individualand social identity is that of George H. Mead, the self that dialogues, inintimacy, with the generalized other. However, its theorization is mixed withthe amalgamation of symbolic interactions, with theories about childrenseparated from theories about adults, walled between disciplines, as socialpsychology. Anyway: several mechanisms to cover up the scientific value ofMead's social theory are in use to disqualify the possibility, which in itstime was pursued and desired, of social philosophy becoming a science like theothers, instead of the soft science that today the social sciences are claimedto be.The self is produced andmaintained in an incorporated way by each and every one of us, including inmodern and secular societies, due to the implicit conceptions of what societyis, what the generalized other is. Each one of us builds a self by himself, ininteraction with whatever life experience background it. The self is anindiscernible part of our personal and social consciousness, which we cannot dowithout or disconnect from. Of course, we must put it up with ourselves withenough courage and hope to survive the mishaps of life. As Pierre Bourdieuexplained, we do it based on dispositions, incorporated abilities acquired inchildhood and youth, which we then use as adults as second nature, asidentities. These dispositions are mainly non-rational: they are the result ofour experiences of incorporation, including as adults.In modern times, confused withthe supposed granted freedoms, which are also obligations and responsibilitiesof self-identification, for most of us professional self-identification, we areoften looking for what we truly, spontaneously, are or want to be. What wetruly are, beyond what we strive professionally to be: is the search forfreedom, which could be experienced in free time, but which modern people havea hard time finding.Our modern identity is made up ofa self-division between that which is artificially learned, in schools andjobs, and that one learns at home. These divided identities are presented to usas free, even responsible; that is, we are guilty of not knowing what to dowith our socially limited freedom.Modern societies produce abundantinstitutional differentiation. Growing myriads of institutions solicitcollaboration from each person according to the capability of manipulatingspecialized, professional languages, all of which offer suggestions for othergeneralized and freedoms that can be used, albeit in a partial way. Each personis called upon to choose - this is freedom! - the institutional references thatshe considers to be useful for her - her vocation - and to dedicate her life,or part of it, to meet the needs of participation, maintenance,differentiation, of the institutions that intend to join.Modern institutions are smallempires: misogynists, elitists and covert, that is, discriminatory,hierarchical, and specialized in a tight way related to other specializations.This is no surprise to anyone.Whoever enters a school or a company or a state agency or a bank knows verywell that the secret is the soul of the business. And when someone whistleblows corruption, for example, he knows that not only his personal identity -linked to the profession and the institution from which he takes resources,including his own identity -, but also the social networks that are his directconnection to the life one lives, all can be compromised for the rest of one´slife. One can imagine that there are other social networks that value the needof struggling for social justice. And you can also experience disillusionment,like Manning or Assange. Their experiences led Snowden to abandon his familyand seek protection where he found it: next to a strategic enemy of his owncountry.These modern institutionalfunctions that are self-organized and integrated, at different, local,regional, national, international, continental, global levels, produce a lot ofgarbage. Not only material garbage, but also human and, therefore, spiritualgarbage. Many of us are educated to stay out of any institution. In fact, weall are educated to do so. The secret of each institution seems to us to besacred – it opens the space to conspiracy theories. As sacred as the secrets ofour families and of the institutions one is part of. We are authorized, throughcompetitions or otherwise, to access places inside the institutions. This is asvaluable to people as life. For this reason, we have traded the freedom of freetime for paid courses and unpaid internships, in the hope that we can prove tobe reliable in keeping business secrets. When we show it, we know it, we mayeventually have an opportunity to make a professional living in the future. Ofcourse, we quickly discovered that institutional secrets are well kept byhierarchies with access to coded information and knowledge and with controlledcirculation circuits of information in such a way as to make different levelsof reality watertight.The dissimulation ofinstitutional secrets - the soul of business - is done through the hierarchy ofthe circulation of information encoded in specialized languages. The hierarchyas much as the specialized and professional connotations of words areincorporated, through school and professional training, in each person, withoutany chip. Secrets are thus kept socially by the elites.This imperial and modern processof functioning produces a lot of garbage, including human garbage. The humangarbage is the people who are educated to consider themselves as garbage andwho serve as a doormat so that the people who manage to integrate theinstitutional professional functions feel intimately the need to be faithful tothe institutional secrets. It is true that the hierarchy andhyperspecialization of communication are effective in protecting secrets. Butit is also certain that their public exposure causes a tremendous alarm amongthose who can decode information - the elites. They fear that other people,although not initiated, people from lower social circles, despite being outsidethe ranks, despite not been through initiatory circles, can understand what iswritten.To fight these people who learnedto point out the naked King, the elites learned two strategies: one is denialand the other is the most radical repression. Often, it is enough to deny theevidence for the factual denunciation to mix accusations with misunderstandingsand misinformation. Most of the time accusations are dissolved in the torrentof conspiracy theories and opposition ideologies games. This is the knowledgewashing machine, generated by institutional secrets and the exclusion of themajority of the population from the most important strategic information works.All those who once turned against any institution, even if innocently,imagining to enter in the democracy game, experienced the hatred and disgustthat such a stance provokes in the elites and, often, also in workers who arekeen to protect the institutional secrets on which their social status dependon. Most of these situations do not even deserve denial or repression: modernsocieties stifle the issue on their own.The elites, of course, rely onsocieties to keep the Empire functioning. Obviously, the Empire is produced andreproduced every day by those who work for it. People who do not want to workfor the elites, who do not want to discriminate people from each other, muchless produce waste, in particular, human waste, those who preferred to live ina transparent and corruption-free society in the 19th and early 20th centurieswere censored, persecuted and repressed. However, the Empire was able todrastically reduce political prisoners, as hyperdisciplinary policies weredisseminated and organized by democratized access universities, starting in the1970s. Today, the organized confusion in the media by think thank andutilitarian sciences that provide professional commentators and disqualifyjournalists leads to repression mainly on social networks, where privateentities do the dirty work of censorship and feed the desperate public withfake news. Fake news allegedly with political consequences in the most recentelections.Undoubtedly, currently, the manipulation of opinions is an industry with extraordinary capabilities. The depoliticization carried out by the normalization of democracy, the hypnotic effect of the screens, and the schooling of the masses may also have had an effect on limiting the intelligence of the new generations. Science may have played a relevant role in this process. See how obscure epidemiologists pre-prepared the response to the 2020 pandemic crisis, not knowing nothing about the virus and concentrating on managing problems of the mood of the people facing the disease. Globalization was driven by theoverpowering Cold War surviving superpower, encouraging people to dream of aplanetary brotherhood, a global village enjoying human rights. However,contrary to hope, neither misery was eradicated, nor wars were abolished, norideological struggles were overcome. Religious disputes have reappeared, asneo-Nazi-fascism struggles to recover the ideologies of the III Reich, declaredearly defeated, and the Communist Party of China, reconciled with capitalism, becomethe apparent big winners of the bankruptcy of the western financial andpolitical system.More important than knowing whowins the dispute for staying with the seat of the Empire, Washington orBeijing, what matters is knowing how to build hope and a work program to beable to live in freedom. The answer is, without demonstration, the empire mustbe abolished. Starting with the empire in us. The empire that makes itimpossible for us to read public messages, not at all secret, completelytransparent, placed by elites everywhere, so that the imperial state of mind isincorporated as subliminal identity. Our naturalized, needed and lovedidentities.How one show and hide who one isThe propaganda included in this video serves, of course, the empire, in the form of a charity whose revenue is millennial and whose results can be seen in the Vatican opulence, or in any of the many wealthy religious congregations. But it also carries with it a fundamental secret about the characterization of modern society. Prisoners, almost all, from children, are adults built socially, institutionally, and politically to be dangerous criminals, before they can have control over their identities.Human waste is not just a wasteof people who have not been able to get a job or who have been excluded fromschools. Even the most humble and exploited workers, those whose income is notenough to survive and whose employment relationship depends on the will of theemployer, to encourage themselves to continue the daily way of looking for workon an empty stomach, can count on the existence of sacrificed lives, like thoseof children abandoned by their families and / or captured by socialinstitutions in modern states. Their intense and persistent humiliation,capable of feeding clandestine networks in the daylight, such as those ofprostitution, where they are used almost only formerly abandoned girls, andthose of crime, where almost only formerly abandoned boys are used, also serveas a warning for workers. How lucky seems to be those who are spared from thismisery. When abandoned children survive in adults, they are dangerous marginalseasily manipulated to cover up the black economy, eventually tolerated, eventuallymanaged by the elites and feared by workers.The positive empire, thecelestial hierarchy, as the religious mind imagine it, depends directly on thesocial and institutional production of social and institutional hells,intentionally produced social exclusions, in charge of security and socialworkers, together. Police and social workers in precarious professional andsocial situations, themselves.The gentlemen who organizedglobalization were not and are not capable of abolishing misery because modernsocieties live on top of that misery, without which the imperial model would bepractically impossible to be accepted by people with sufficient freedom tobehave with a minimum of morality. Professionalism, political ideologies, thehyperdisciplinarity of sciences, the schooling of the masses, advertisingthrough screens, make the empire the dominant form of organization, on top ofthe greatest misery that humanity has ever known, producing material wastewhere a large part of the miserable people literally inhabits, in famine.Institutionalized censorship of knowledge production is based on our own personal identity production. The naturalized blackmail applied to each one of us: we all know that those who do not integrate society will be persecuted, by forcibly social integration policies, in nursing homes, hospices, barracks, prisons, schools. Only the wicked, we say to ourselves, are opposed to the solicitude of modern states and societies. This urges us to be good. Good professionals, good family members, good citizens, good policemen, good soldiers, good patriots, that is, friends of our countrymen assigned by the national registers. Records where those who are formed as garbage resort, and the others who follow them in times of crisis, waving to others with the common flag, the only and last possible connection within society, while sinking in their respective inhumanity.