Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the greatest show on Earth, the Fort Knox “Gold Audit” Extravaganza! But before we roll out the red carpet and crack open those vault doors, let’s take a moment to appreciate the real performance happening here:
The Art of Laying the Seed.
It started subtly, little hints dropped here and there.
• “Wouldn’t it be crazy if we opened the vault and the gold was gone?”
• “What if we found nothing but IOUs?”
• “Maybe it’s not there at all!”
Oh, how clever. Because when the inevitable “shocking” discovery is made, when they announce the gold is missing, misplaced, or quietly leveraged away decades ago, no one will be too surprised. After all, they warned us, didn’t they?
This is classic expectation management. Ease the public into the idea of an empty vault so that when the moment comes, outrage is replaced with a collective shrug.
But let’s set aside the media games and ask the real question: Who did this gold ever truly belong to?
Because let’s be clear, it was never America’s to begin with.
The gold in Fort Knox, if it even still exists, is a bloodstained culmination of global theft.
• Stolen from indigenous lands, ripped from sacred earth long before it was ever melted into bars.
• Plundered from civilizations by colonial empires who saw no difference between land, people, and resources, all were theirs to take.
• Seized under war, conquest, and economic manipulation, quietly absorbed into the hands of those who would hoard it for generations.
And now, after centuries of exploitation, the same powers that looted the world are putting on a show, laughing about checking “our” gold.
• “It’s the public’s gold!” they say, when in reality, the public will never see a dime of its value.
• “We just want to make sure it’s there!”as if they don’t already know exactly where it went.
• “Wouldn’t it be crazy if it was missing?” knowing full well they’re preparing us for that exact announcement.
And when the doors swing open, when the cameras roll and the carefully orchestrated narrative unfolds, the truth won’t matter. Whether the vault is empty or full, the outcome remains the same: this gold will never return to the people, the lands, or the nations from which it was taken.
Because the real trick isn’t the possibility of missing gold. The real trick is convincing people they had a claim to it in the first place.
So go ahead, open the vault. Show us the illusion. We already know how this story ends.
