Listening Schedule
Dragon Reborn RED | Jun 2024 Multistage Stage IVC6
15 mins, Tues and Thur, 7 days break after 21 days
Intelligence determines the scale of damage - not the presence of cunning.
Cunning alone is small. When paired with limited intelligence, it produces petty schemes, street-level predation, and short-term thinking. The moves are obvious. The victims are close. The risk is high, and the reward is low. Small minds naturally gravitate toward small crimes because they cannot manage complexity. They exploit individuals, not systems.
High intelligence transforms cunning into something far more consequential. It allows a person to operate beyond immediate targets, beyond the visible. Suddenly, you’re no longer manipulating a single person — you’re shaping institutions, narratives, and structures. You leverage systems instead of relying on force.
At this level, power stops looking like crime and starts looking like strategy. Elections are influenced, not “rigged.” Markets are “optimized,” not manipulated. Media is shaped, not controlled. The harm is distributed, abstract, and almost impossible to trace. Accountability becomes a concept, not a consequence.
The truly dangerous actors rarely appear desperate or criminal. They are polished. They speak in metrics and legal language. They cloak intent in efficiency, morality, and professionalism. They understand that cunning is neutral — it is intelligence that determines its reach. Ethics only matter when power is small enough to be held accountable.
Most people fear the thief on the street, the visible wrongdoer, while the architect of the system that enables theft goes unnoticed. At scale, power does not announce itself as evil. It presents as efficiency.
The uncomfortable truth: Ignorance does not make you moral. It makes you expendable. Understanding power — its structures, its levers, and its subtle forms — is not optional. It is survival.