“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
— The Usual Suspects
America is being poisoned. Not metaphorically. Not accidentally. Systemically, deliberately, and for profit.
Today, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Senate testimony wasn’t just another headline but a warning. He laid bare what many of us already know. Still, too few are willing to say out loud: The industries that dominate our lives—Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Oil, the Military-Industrial Complex, and Corporate Media—aren’t just failing us. They’re exploiting us. They are extracting wealth, health, and agency from the American people at an industrial scale.
The result? A sick, anxious, overmedicated, misinformed, divided, and demoralized nation—precisely the kind of population that is easiest to control. We can either keep pretending this is all just an unfortunate side effect of capitalism or wake up to reality: This system is engineered for mass dependence. RFK will try to solve some of that (especially on healthcare and food systems), but can we do anything about it?
Let’s start by recognizing the poisoners: Big food and industrial agriculture are in the business of keeping us sick. America’s food system is designed for addiction, not nutrition. Ultra-processed food makes up nearly 60% of the American diet. 80% of items in a typical grocery store didn’t exist a century ago. Glyphosate, the cancer-linked chemical in Roundup, is found in 80% of Americans’ urine samples.
The industrial food system destroys our health at the cellular level, and the same corporations that manufacture this garbage spend billions lobbying against better regulations. Meanwhile, farmers who produce real, nutrient-dense food are crushed under subsidies favoring mono-crops like corn, wheat, and soy—the building blocks of the processed food empire.
And then, of course, comes Big Pharma to “fix” the damage, selling us cures for the diseases they created.
We don’t have a healthcare system in America. We have a disease management industry. Rather than preventing illness at its root, we have a system that profits off perpetual sickness. Instead of eliminating diabetes, heart disease, and autoimmune disorders—conditions primarily driven by diet and lifestyle—we’re handed lifelong prescriptions—statins, insulin, and painkillers that keep people locked in a cycle of dependency. 70% of Americans take at least one prescription drug. Medical errors and prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death in the U.S. None of this is a coincidence. Cures kill revenue. Treatments create lifelong customers.
While Pharma poisons our bodies, Big Tech poisons our minds through the attention-addiction complex.
Big Tech isn’t just a set of tools—it’s a system designed to control behavior at scale. Social media platforms are engineered for addiction, hijacking dopamine pathways the same way slot machines do. Tech giants manipulate the information we see, not based on truth but on engagement—driving division, outrage, and mass confusion. Last but not least, our data is the product. Everything we type, search, and click is sold to advertisers, governments, and intelligence agencies. The result? Skyrocketing mental illness, teen suicide rates doubling, and entire generations lost to algorithmic rabbit holes.
And while Big Tech controls our minds, Big Oil controls our environment by polluting for profit.
America’s addiction to fossil fuels isn’t just an environmental crisis—it’s a public health disaster. Plastics (a byproduct of fossil fuels) are now in our blood, lungs, and even placentas. Regenerative energy solutions are systematically suppressed to keep the oil economy intact. The companies that built America’s fossil fuel empire knew for decades they were destroying the environment. They buried the evidence, lobbied against clean energy, and ensured we remained dependent on their product for as long as possible.
And guess who profits off the global instability created by climate change? The war machine profiting from an always-on war.
Eisenhower warned us in 1961, but nobody listened. America doesn’t win wars anymore—it just keeps them going. Endless conflict means endless profits for Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and the entire defense industry. The U.S. spends more on its military than the next 9 countries combined. Since 9/11, the War on Terror has cost over $8 trillion. Meanwhile, veterans return home to homelessness, PTSD, and suicide.
And if you wonder why more people don’t talk about this, it’s because the media is owned by the same conglomerates pushing the war narrative.
Journalism in America is dead. What we have now is corporate propaganda disguised as news. Six corporations control 90% of all media. Fear-based headlines dominate every cycle. Investigative journalism is replaced by infotainment and outrage clickbait. The media’s job isn’t to inform you—it’s to control the national narrative. To keep people fighting each other, too distracted to recognize who’s really pulling the strings.
And here’s the thing: It’s working.
We won’t fix this by voting harder. The system isn’t broken—it’s functioning exactly as designed. We must fight back with technology, decentralization, and disruption. We have the tools to burn it all down and build something better →
Biotech can replace industrial agriculture and synthetic pharma.
Next-generation energy can kill Big Oil’s grip on power.
Decentralized platforms can obliterate corporate media’s monopoly on truth.
Blockchain infrastructure can rip power away from corrupt institutions.
The old system is dying. We must take control of what happens next.
We are fighting a war for our children’s future and must be ruthless. This is not the time for passive awareness. It’s time for aggressive action. We must stop playing by the rules - Big Business wants us distracted and divided. We must invest in disruption - supporting companies and technologies that break the system. And we must build parallel institutions - the old world is crumbling, so let’s not waste time trying to fix it.
The poisoning of America is not an accident. It is a business model. But that model only works if we continue to comply. Let’s change the equation through vision, optimism, and relentless determination.
Thank you for reading,
Yon
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An AI assistant was used to help edit this letter.
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