At the Greater Reset 5, researcher and broadcaster Mark Passio delivered a blunt diagnosis: the “freedom movement,” as he defines it, is not winning. Tyranny is advancing, he argues, because too many people still think the wrong way, do the wrong things, and avoid the hard work that actually shifts culture. His talk, titled Why We’re Losing: Seven Reasons the Freedom Movement Is Failing, was equal parts critique and call to action.
Passio’s setup is simple: don’t expect novelty. “There is nothing new under the sun,” he says. Truth is perennial; humanity simply hasn’t integrated it. And don’t expect coddling. He insists it’s kinder to tell people their performance is poor than to flatter them into future failure. With that stage set, he outlines the seven reasons he believes the movement keeps losing—and the work he says comes next.
1) We Don’t Understand Natural Law
Passio’s first and most foundational claim is that freedom and slavery are governed by cause-and-effect dynamics that exist independently of opinion. He calls this framework Natural Law: universal, inherent, objective, non–man-made conditions that govern the consequences of the behavior of beings capable of knowing right from wrong.
Two keys sit at the center:
- Conscience is the knowledge of the difference between behaviors that initiate harm (wrongs) and those that don’t (rights).
- The Law of Freedom: Aggregate freedom is directly proportional to aggregate morality. If a society is enslaved, then in the aggregate its behavior is not moral enough—full stop.
From this vantage, the popular belief that humans can create legitimate “authority” over others is a catastrophic mind virus. “Authority” claims overwrite Natural Law with human decree. When enough people accept that claim, they will commit or condone harm believing it’s moral—because “the law” said so. For Passio, that’s the taproot of enslavement.
2) We Don’t Understand the Occult—Especially Its Dark Side
“Occult” means hidden. Passio says the real-world occult is less capes-and-candles than mass psychology: an ancient priest class who hoard knowledge of the psyche and of Natural Law to create a knowledge differential, which becomes a power differential. He labels this dark occultism or Satanism—not cartoon devil worship, but a philosophy that elevates the human will above objective morality and uses sophisticated manipulation to keep populations confused.
If people don’t grasp how these manipulations work, he argues, they will remain vulnerable to them—and keep mistaking slavery for order.
3) We Outsource the Job of Teaching
According to Passio, too many “awake” people still behave like permanent audience members. They praise speakers and share clips, but won’t accept personal responsibility to become influencers and teachers themselves. That omission matters. In his framework, refusing to teach what you’ve learned doesn’t merely stall progress—it accelerates the loss of freedom because it leaves the broader population inside the same old programs.
4) We Cling to Our Comfort Zone
Freedom has a price: risk, sacrifice, time, money, reputation. Passio says most people want outcomes without costs, acting like “armchair quarterbacks” who cheer from the couch. The refrain “I have something to lose” is, in his words, proof that the battle has already been lost in that person’s mind. Meanwhile, the other side works tirelessly—and ruthlessly.
5) We Run the “I’m Not ____ Enough” Script
“I’m not smart/talented/young/technical/wealthy/motivated enough.” Passio hears these self-cancelling beliefs constantly. His advice: start where you are. First clean your own thinking (learn Natural Law; spot mind viruses), then start communicating. Technology matters, but it’s the vehicle, not the engine. He rejects black-pilled fatalism: the goal is possible, he says; the problem is that our performance has been inadequate, not that freedom is impossible.
6) We Excuse Evil—Especially When It’s “Just a Job”
Order-following sits in Passio’s crosshairs. Police and military, he says, are the boots-on-the-ground builders of the “dark New World Order,” because they materially enforce harmful decrees. He’s heard every mitigation—“they have families to feed”—and rejects them. Feeding a family today by destroying liberty for everyone tomorrow is not moral math.
His prescription is right livelihood: don’t initiate harm, and stop supporting those who do. That means withdrawing social and moral cover from order-followers and urging them to quit and retrain. It’s a hard line, and he knows it. But he argues that excusing wrongdoers only emboldens them.
7) We Don’t Know How to Broadcast Ideas at Scale
Finally, Passio says too few people know how to turn ideas into media that can spread. In 2025, influence flows through podcasts, video, writing, and social platforms. Watching others create content doesn’t move the aggregate. If you want to change minds at scale, you must become a creator. (He runs a technical training course as his contribution to this bottleneck, but the larger point is skill-building, not any one program.)
So What Does He Want Us to Do?
Passio wraps with a two-part mandate he calls the Great Work:
- Purge the mind viruses.
- Retire the belief in human “authority.”
- Align to objective morality: initiating harm is wrong—no euphemisms, no exceptions.
- Study how manipulation works so you can spot and neutralize it.
- Teach, relentlessly.
- Accept the duty to become an influencer—yes, you.
- Leave the comfort zone. Budget time, money, and reputation for this.
- Withdraw consent and support from harmful systems and roles; live by right livelihood.
- Learn the tools of modern media and broadcast: talk, write, film, publish, repeat.
The throughline is agency. In Passio’s telling, freedom is not bestowed by systems, technologies, or leaders. It emerges as a natural consequence when enough individuals think and act in harmony with Natural Law—and when they help enough other people do the same. If aggregate morality rises, so does aggregate freedom. If it doesn’t, it won’t.
You don’t have to agree with every claim to grasp the challenge at the core of his talk: the decisive battles are over ideas, conscience, and courage—and they’re personal. In that sense, his indictment doubles as an invitation. If the problem is how we think, the battlefield is as close as your next choice.
“Why We’re Losing”: A point-by-point guide to Mark Passio’s talk (Greater Reset 5)
TL;DR: Passio says the “freedom movement” is losing because we still think wrong. His seven reasons: (1) ignorance of Natural Law and objective morality, (2) ignorance of the occult forces manipulating belief, (3) shirking the duty to teach others, (4) comfort-zone complacency, (5) self-limiting stories (“I’m not ____ enough”), (6) excusing the evil of order-followers, and (7) not knowing how to use media/tech to spread truth. The remedy: change your own mind, then influence others—deliberately, loudly, and at scale.
0) Set-up: caveats and tone
- Nothing new under the sun. Truth is eternal; humanity just hasn’t integrated it. Expect reminders, not novelties.
- Emotional maturity required. Don’t “reason with emotions.” Assess claims without instantly accepting or rejecting them.
- Why he’s harsh. Telling people they’re performing better than they are harms their future chances. Real help = honest feedback.
- Root leverage. Thought → behavior → societal conditions. If thoughts don’t change, tyranny persists.
1) Baseline claim: we’re losing
- Objective state: Tyranny is deepening; freedom isn’t expanding.
- Missing orientation: Most activists don’t know the governing dynamics of freedom/enslavement, so their actions aren’t moving the “ball downfield.”
2) Reason #1 — Ignorance of Natural Law
- Definition (his terms): A universal, inherent, objective, non-man-made, eternal, immutable set of conditions that govern consequences for beings who can know right vs. wrong.
- Conscience: Knowledge of which behaviors are rights (initiate no harm) vs. wrongs (initiate harm). Not religious; a behavioral science.
- Core error: Belief in “authority” is a mind virus. Human authority doesn’t exist in nature; claiming it usurps Natural Law.
- Law of Freedom: Aggregate freedom ∝ aggregate morality. If we’re enslaved, our aggregate behavior isn’t moral enough.
3) Reason #2 — Ignorance of the occult
- What it is (to him): “Occult” = hidden. Dark occultism/Satanism = a priest class of master psychologists/social engineers who hoard knowledge of psyche and natural law to create a knowledge differential, yielding a power differential.
- Not pitchforks and devils: Think mass psychological manipulation, not cartoon devil worship.
- Practical effect: Mind viruses keep people ignorant of Natural Law, so enslavement feels legitimate.
4) Reason #3 — “That’s someone else’s job”
- Chronic buck-passing: Many want to remain perpetual audience members, praising speakers while doing nothing themselves.
- Moral charge: Refusing to become a teacher/influencer accelerates the loss of freedom through omission.
5) Reason #4 — Comfort-zone addiction
- No risk, no sacrifice: Avoiding hardship, time, money, and reputation costs keeps you on the sidelines.
- “I have something to lose.” If that’s your posture, you’ve already lost. The other side is winning because they act.
6) Reason #5 — The “I’m not ___ enough” script
- Common blanks: good/smart/talented/motivated/courageous/young/wealthy/tooled “enough.”
- Counter: Start where you are. Technology matters later; the first move is correcting your own thinking, then communicating it.
- Not black-pilled: He says the goal is possible; our performance so far has been inadequate, not the goal impossible.
7) Reason #6 — Excusing evil (order-following)
- Target: Police and military (and, to a degree, medical/education/business bureaucrats) as order followers who materially build the “dark New World Order.”
- Stop the alibis: “They have families to feed” is not a moral defense. Wrong livelihood harms everyone—including their families—in the long run.
- Historical mirror: Nazi train conductors/guards analogy: you’d tell them to quit; do the same with modern order-followers.
- Demand: Quit immoral jobs; practice right livelihood. Don’t normalize obedience over conscience.
8) Reason #7 — Can’t (or won’t) use media/tech
- Bottleneck: Too few know how to produce content that scales ideas. Watching from the sidelines doesn’t shift aggregates.
- Mechanism of influence: Alternative media is how minds change today. Learn the tools; become a creator (he plugs his course as one path).
9) Prescriptions: what to do now
- Purge mind viruses. Dethrone the belief in human authority; align with objective morality as defined by harm.
- Study the playbook. Learn Natural Law and the methods of dark psychological manipulation.
- Accept duty. Every person becomes a teacher/influencer—no exceptions.
- Leave the comfort zone. Take risks, sacrifice time/money/standing. Skin in the game.
- Reject self-defeat. Replace “I’m not enough” with “I’ll start now.”
- Withdraw consent—and support. Stop excusing or assisting order-following; insist on right livelihood (for yourself and others).
- Broadcast at scale. Build media skill, produce content, and aim for viral spread of these ideas.
His finish: Do the Great Work: transform your own mind, then flood the field of consciousness with clear, moral ideas—until freedom, as a natural consequence, expands.
