Docility, Discipline, and the Pendulum of Power: From Soap Bubbles to Sovereign Resets
Yielding to patterns amplifies your personal sovereignty, but enforced compliance divides the pie. Gold and silver endure the swings.
January 24, 2026 by elainedianetaylor~
Soap Bubbles and Empire Fragility
A child’s soap bubble floating in the spring breeze forms through surface tension and pressure differentials. The thin film stretches spherical, enclosing air with minimal surface for volume.
It passively yields to the breeze and extends its flight and drift, while iridescent colors shimmer from the sun’s wavelength interference on its thin surface.
Evaporation thins it. The wind deforms its shape. Until the fragile equilibrium bursts the beautiful flight.
When a small bubble attaches to a bigger one, when they meet gently in air or on a wand, the smaller one merges or clings to the bigger, sharing a common wall.
The union gains temporary stability and volume. Combined, they float farther, amplified by the alliance.
Empires historically inflate on debt like that fragile sphere. They expand through borrowing and growth, until the weight can no longer be sustained, and they reset via war’s violent pop or economic deflation’s slow thinning of the film of culture and size, and they collapse.
Mergers echo this. Smaller powers or economies attach to larger ones—vassal states, currency unions. Mutual extension, apparent strength. Yet debt contagion spreads. Mismatched tensions strain it all, and external shocks can burst the combined bubble.
Gold and silver provide an anchor outside the film. Value rises exponentially in crises because they are not branded to a nation or empire or institution. They have no counterparty risk and can be melted and rebranded.
True value is not dependent through the storm.
There is a global economic storm with one faction leaning to expansion through innovation seed planting, and the other clamping down to centrally manage and divide the pie as it is.
McLuhan’s Docile Bodies
To be docile inside a larger system, like the smaller bubble benefitting from the stability of the larger, and floating where that more massive bubble goes, need not be a passive yielding.
The sailor reads the wind and harnesses it for their benefit. It is a docility with agency and the ability to unconnect at will.
Marshall McLuhan explained the benefit of docility as an attuned yield. Not a surrender to authority. It’s being able to see the patterns inside the medium we live in and to benefit from attaching to that which benefits while it benefits.
In electromagnetic fields—like Nikola Tesla’s oscillators—individuals become free nodes. Harvesting resonance for amplified agency.
This marks the expansive swing. Planting seeds in an ever-growing universe. Aligning self-interest with symbiotic pulses for the betterment of all.
Electromagnetic compression bypasses tolls and trolls on the bridge where the message can pass and control is not oppressive. Enabling crowds to reclaim sovereignty.
Gold in its historical, poetic breadth—wild and sovereign—holds the richest intel for those who attune rather than resist. Meaning it separates as a form of money without being subject to the chaos as the debt chaos sorts out which direction it will ultimately go: towards the garden mind where we plant seeds for expanding or the pie mind where the citizens are controlled through forced docility, for the benefit of the managers.
Foucault’s Docile Bodies
Foucault traces modern power’s shifts, from using spectacular violence to subtle disciplines, the aim is to produce compliant, optimized bodies.
This type of pie minded rule controls space with enclosure, partitioning people. It controls time with forced schedules and bells, with mechanical systems that turn individuals into efficient machines.
Their pie minded goal is for the citizens to Internalize norms for productivity. This is the zero-sum contraction. Pie-dividers enforce control through debt, surveillance, biopolitics among other techniques
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In 2026’s sovereign debt balloon—trillions mounting—resets loom via geopolitical fists or currency reconfiguration. The passive docility risks regression to compliance.
But docility can be a power for the individuals who choose to join a force to their benefit.
The key is the freedom to attach and detach at will.
It’s time for the out of frame look at the ability to attach and detach, and to use one’s will to benefit in the storm.
The Pendulum Swing
The pendulum swings between expansive mindsets.
Between seed planters who innovate and use gold and silver’s quiet reclamation, and zero-sum pie minds clamoring for division and their “fair” piece of a pie under centralized management.
Debt crises signal the fall.
Bubbles burst. Wars redirect. Economies reset.
McLuhan’s view of active docility electrifies agency in growth phases. Foucault’s passive docility disciplines enforced contraction.
Gold and silver endure both. They reprice exponentially higher as fiat fails.
They enable untethered nodes, meaning we as humans can expand into this exponential growth in fluid fields.
True power emerges when many move as one. Resonant and sovereign. In liquid land.
It is liquid out there right now for a short time.
Cycles and Signals: A Reflection
Debt balloons often precede resets—via war, debasement, or collapse—as in Rome, Weimar, and other eras. Sovereign debt extremes thin out the systems like overinflated bubbles. Attached smaller entities gain short-term lift, but diverging pressures expose shared fragility.
In such times the closed system fractures into two paths. One moves toward a seed-planting mentality: innovation and creation expand the pie, fostering sovereign docility that attunes and attaches to larger expansion—like a small bubble gently merging with a bigger one for amplified flight. The other clings to centralized pie-dividing: enforced docility under managerial control, where compliance is compelled rather than chosen.
Physical gold and silver have historically anchored value in resets.
They appreciate exponentially when fiat falters: silver’s post-crash surges (1970s, 2008–2011, post-2020), gold’s rise through debasement.
Key signals: climbing debt-to-GDP, geopolitical distractions from fiscal strain, central bank expansions eroding currency.
Across generations, some have kept a portion in physical form—gold coins, silver bars/rounds in direct possession—as a private response to these patterns. No intermediary, no ledger—just metal that outlasts experiments.
A fear of harnessing the wind while sailing makes little sense, though citizens are being taught the weather and wind are to be feared. In a physical mass, globalist one-world government agenda, the global climate itself is part of what they wanted to control. An utter failure.
The pendulum trend is now towards decentralization.
The globalist pie minded are publicly stating now that their aim has failed, and the world is not alright with a centralized division of what is, by a group of unelected whose aim is to equal all out across the planet with them in command.
For that to have worked, they had to lower the living standard of the better of countries. They tried and it didn’t work.
Centralized governors attempt to control the very wind itself and compel the free citizen to passively comply, to fear the wind, and never sailing on their own.
This is not financial advice nor a recommendation. It is a reflection on recurring history when bubbles near breaking.
We’re all watching which way the wind is blowing.
Harness it.
Elaine~
Elaine Diane Taylor
Keys: gold, silver, sovereignty, debt resets, war, economic collapse, globalism and nationalism
Songs for today: “Coins and Crowns” unplugged, featured in Mike Maloney’s episode 1 New Secrets of Money viral series on YouTube.
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Mike Maloney’s Hidden Secrets of Money:
- Hidden Secrets of Money – Full Series on YouTube (opens in new tab)
- Direct link to Episode 1 – Currency vs Money (the one that features “Coins and Crowns” unplugged): Over 6.8 million views
- Episode 1 – Currency vs Money (opens in new tab)
Elaine Diane Taylor on X @ ElaineDTaylor
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Thank you to Jim Rickards for including me in his New York Times bestselling book The New Case for Gold.
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Nothing on this site is intended as investment advice. We’re all watching which way the wind is blowing.
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Gold is at historic highs because trust in government and legacy systems is at historic lows.
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Elaine – Barkerville, Gold Rush Town, British Columbia, Canada
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Thank you to Mike Maloney for including my song Coins and Crowns in Episode 1 of his bestselling YouTube series Hidden Secrets of Money.
Coins and Crowns
words and music Elaine Diane Taylor
SOCAN/ASCAP
from the album Coins and Crowns
Coins and Crowns is featured in Episode 1 of Mike Maloney’s bestselling series Hidden Secrets of Money.
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Not Much of a Holiday (Bank Holidays and Media Persuasion)
words and music Elaine Diane Taylor
Single available on iTunes
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Thank you to the late David Crosby for his kind messages, including the message to me on X (formerly Twitter) saying this song, Terrible Breeze, has excellent lyrics and good music, and his encouragement for me to get out there and sing.
A Terrible Breeze (War and Social Media)
The news comes down
A little ex (X) bluebird sings
Words of war
Fire and furious things
Of testing might
‘Til no patience knows
If keeping still
Still keeps you safe at home
There’s a terrible breeze
They speak of today
Of threats that used to live a world away
We all know wind
Can blow both ways
And a terrible breeze can blow it all away
A worldwide net
Sees our village grow
Until we all forget
What each one used to know
How a blind bird’s wings
Can reach the shore
And turn the wheel of peace and war
Village fools sinking down, down, down
Debt and gold wound in numbered shrouds
Deal of a life it’s bread and clowns
Can we afford another go around?
The news comes down.
It’s a terrible breeze. The news comes down.
words and music Elaine Diane Taylor
Single available on iTunes
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Preparing for the Fall is a live boutique album available for digital download — featuring Wag the Dog, Black Swan Dive, American Pie and Gods of the Copybook Headings. Also available on iTunes, Google Music, Amazon Music and major digital distributors.
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The Gods of the Copybook Headings
words by Rudyard Kipling and music by Elaine Diane Taylor
from the album Preparing for the Fall.
The copybooks of the early 1900s gave us all the wisdom we need. The sayings that were copied are the truths, the gods of our world. All the empires who followed the gods of the marketplace have fallen, and there’s terror and slaughter when the gods of the copybook headings return. The lyrics are by Rudyard Kipling. One of my gurus.
Another Week on Wall Street
words and music Elaine Diane Taylor
from the album Coins and Crowns.
“A little grease (Greece) is floating out to sea, and little pigs (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain) are bobbing up and down, they’ll send a storm and we’ll see, when the tide goes out who’s naked on the beach“. The world is changing as we know it.
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Nothing on this site is intended as individual investment advice. We’re all watching which way the wind is blowing.
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Elaine Diane Taylor 
