We are told we live in the Age of Information —

that all of human knowledge is now at our fingertips.

But this is an illusion.

What we are given is not the full library of truth,

but a curated box,

filled only with what is convenient, profitable, or safe for the system that created it.

The internet appears infinite —

yet its pathways are shaped by unseen hands.

Algorithms decide what you see.

Censorship cloaks what you cannot.

Education trains you not to ask,

not to look beyond what fits in the box.

And so, a silent war is waged —

not with weapons, but with boundaries placed on the mind.

Not by force, but by shaping belief:

“This is all there is.”

“This is all you need to know.”

But those who have tasted the mystery,

who have stood in the jungle

or wept under the stars in altered states,

know the truth:

The real knowledge is wild.

It is alive.

It does not fit in the box.

To reclaim it, you must walk beyond the digital fence.

Beyond convenience, beyond certainty.

You must become uncomfortable again —

curious again —

dangerous again.

You are not here to be a consumer of approved data.

You are here to remember.

-Mario Gómez Mayorga 2025