How Psychopaths Took Over Society… and What You Must Do Now
By Peter J. Merrick, TEP® and Adrian C. Spitters, CFP®, co-authors of the international bestseller It Starts With Gold™ and the forthcoming book Guns, Gold & Land™
This analysis continues a series of long-form investigations published in The Merrick Spitters Reset Report™
I am Canadian. I lived in Toronto during the first five months of the COVID-19 lockdowns. I came back for five months to Toronto from March 2020. Since 2019, I have lived in San Diego. Every time I return to Canada, I see it changing. People are quieter. More obedient. Less human. What happened in Canada is now unfolding in the United States. If you stay uninformed, this system will overtake you too.
We now live in a psychopathic narcissistic society. That is not meant as an insult. It is a clinical observation. Those in charge often lack compassion. They use quiet influence and digital systems to shape outcomes… to control and eventually eliminate resistance. This is not about safety. It is about submission.
A psychopath is someone who lacks empathy, remorse, or any emotional connection to others. They are manipulative, cold, charming on the surface… and entirely self-serving. They lie with ease and feel nothing when others suffer. They seek positions of power, not to serve, but to control. These individuals have now infiltrated our civil institutions… from media and academia to banking, public health, and law enforcement. The structures meant to serve the people are now mechanisms of domination.
During the first months of the COVID lockdowns, alone in my Toronto home, I revisited a book I had been given years earlier… Political Ponerology by Polish psychiatrist Andrzej Łobaczewski. He had survived both Nazi and Soviet rule. In it, he explained how psychopaths rise to power and create what he called a pathocracy… a regime led by those without conscience.
Adrian C. Spitters, CFP® and I used Łobaczewski’s model as one of the key primers in our international bestseller It Starts With Gold. We structured the book to help the reader clearly see where we have come from as a civilization… where we are now… and where these psychopaths intend to take humanity if we do not act quickly.
Here are the six stages Łobaczewski outlined, using Canada as the real-time example:
Stage one: Comfort. When COVID hit, most Canadians complied. They accepted the narrative. They trusted. Shops closed. Movement was restricted. People obeyed. It was easier than confronting reality.
Stage two: Emotion over truth. Social media turned into a surveillance machine. Neighbours snitched. Fear was worshipped. “Trust the science” became a substitute for thinking. Anyone asking hard questions was labeled a danger.
Stage three: Institutional takeover. Banks froze accounts of peaceful protesters. Government invoked the Emergencies Act. No due process. Just raw power. The system began punishing dissent directly.
Stage four: Normalized control. Churches closed. Free speech silenced. Doctors punished for speaking outside official policy. The system trained us to accept punishment as protection.
Stage five: Collapse of competence. Good people left. What remained were loyalists… not leaders. Educators, medical workers, and public servants became tools of policy… not providers of service.
Stage six: Total control. Canada now pilots digital IDs, programmable money, and speech censorship laws. ESG scores and AI surveillance are expanding. This is not the end… it is the means to control every choice you make.
Canada is not the only country following this path. It is the test case. And if America continues to sleep, these same tools will be fully deployed here… just with slicker branding.
In preparation for The Money Show in Las Vegas on July 17, 2025, I asked myself, what is The Last Asset Standing?
The answer is clear. It is sovereignty. And that is why Adrian C. Spitters, CFP® and I wrote It Starts With Gold. We spent over 7000 hours writing, backed by ten years of research, and more than seventy years collectively in the Financial Industrial Complex. We created this book to be a tool… a field guide to prepare you to exit their system and preserve your humanity.
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Because what they want is not your safety. It is your silence. And eventually… your surrender. We say no. We choose sovereignty. We stand… human.
This Is Not the End. It Is a Turning Point.
The system that created wealth for past generations is no longer operating in your favour. That does not mean you have no options.
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