The Illusion of Insight
Why the establishment allows the “Gen Z is Conservative” narrative — and how it's used to police, profile, and program.
How they use consumer research surveys as a trifecta of social engineering to steer society into global governance also known as Agenda 21.
Why the establishment allows the “Gen Z is Conservative” narrative — and how it's used to police, profile, and program for the Club of Rome’s triple bottom line.
People, Planet, Profits.1
These surveys are not tools for insight, they’re instruments of societal redesign. The trifecta is:
Data as Doctrine (normalize ideological values)
Therapy as Control (redefine morality as emotional compliance)
Learning as Indoctrination (link survival to conformity)
This is Edward Bernays on a global scale, executed not through smoke-filled rooms but algorithmic dashboards and corporate DEI/SEL protocols. It’s not about finding out what you think. It’s about shaping it, until resistance itself becomes a diagnosable condition and “purpose” is whatever the system says it is.
You may have seen the headlines:
"Gen Z is becoming the most conservative generation since World War II.”
Some conservatives celebrate this as a turning tide. Some progressives panic. But few stop to ask a deeper question:
Why is this narrative being allowed to spread?
In an era where Big Tech censors dissent, media coordinates narratives, and polling is curated to fit agendas, it's worth asking: What purpose does this talking point serve for the regime in power? Because make no mistake—polling isn't neutral. It's psychological infrastructure. And today, the most powerful polling entities on the planet—Deloitte, Pew, and Gallup—are not measuring opinion. They're engineering it.
Are Gen Z really the most conservative generation since WWII or is this narrative a trap?
In this article, we expose how polling giants like Deloitte, Pew, and Gallup don’t just measure public opinion—they shape it. Learn how the “Gen Z is conservative” headline is being used to map dissent, profile youth ideology, and feed AI systems that govern behavior. This isn’t just research—it’s regime strategy. It’s how behavioral governance works and why your soul is the real target.
Orientation: Who Are Gen Z and Gen Alpha?
To understand the psychological and ideological engineering at play, we must first define the primary generational cohorts being targeted by this programming.
Gen Z (Zoomers)
Birth Years: Roughly 1995–2010 (some sources vary slightly)
Current Age Range: As of 2025, ages 15–30
Defining Characteristics:
First true "digital natives"
Grew up with smartphones, social media, and surveillance-as-normal
Highly emotionalized and ideologically shaped through school-based SEL (Social Emotional Learning) and DEI frameworks
Struggling with mental health, identity confusion, and economic instability
Technocratic Role: Designed to be the first fully “managed generation”—self-regulating, emotionally programmable, and socially compliant through AI feedback loops, career gamification, and ESG-aligned life goals.
Gen Alpha
Birth Years: Roughly 2010–2025
Current Age Range: Ages 0–15
Defining Characteristics:
Raised by millennial parents under the full rollout of Agenda 2030 frameworks
Exposed to AI co-teachers, biometric school systems, gamified behavioral nudging, and climate-anxiety narratives from birth
Many are already on their second or third digital ID/login system before puberty
Technocratic Role: Engineered as the first generation to be fully raised under planetary governance. Positioned to have no memory of life before digital surveillance, reflexive law, or social credit. Their purpose is not to question technocracy—but to live inside it as its moralized agents.
Understanding these cohorts’ programming helps decode why polling data isn’t neutral. It is the dashboard for shaping their emotions, beliefs, and future roles in the new global system.
The Behavioral Religion of Deloitte
Deloitte's 2025 Global Gen Z and Millennial Survey is not a snapshot of sentiment. It is a behavioral blueprint. It defines the "ideal future citizen" using three controlling pillars:
Lifelong Learning — perpetual skills compliance in a system of AI co-dependence
Purpose-Driven Work — moral alignment with corporate ESG and globalist values
Mental Health — therapeutic governance disguised as compassion
This trifecta functions as a new secular religion. Its gospel is emotional intelligence, its tithe is constant upskilling, and its god is psychological safety. In Deloitte's world, the most noble worker is the one who aligns with progressive HR mandates, supports environmental compliance, and self-reports feelings for institutional optimization.
This is not capitalism. It is technocratic soul programming.
Pew, Gallup, and the Trap of Controlled Dissent
While Deloitte lays down the ideal, Pew and Gallup serve a different but complementary role: they offer the illusion of resistance.
Pew releases data suggesting that Gen Z is disillusioned with gender ideology or censorious speech codes. Gallup measures emotional distress and workplace disengagement. These findings are not suppressed—they are permitted.
Why? Because they operate as pressure valves:
They allow conservatives to believe they are winning.
They allow media to debate trends that never challenge the system itself.
They provide valuable psychographic data for behavior tracking.
Together, these three polling giants manage the dialectic: Deloitte creates the utopian target, Pew channels dissent, Gallup quantifies the fallout.
Here are the quick-hit points on how Deloitte, Pew, and Gallup are used to socially and morally engineer the masses:
✅ Deloitte
Prescribes the ideal global citizen: emotionally intelligent, ESG-compliant, and purpose-driven.
Uses corporate surveys to push ideological conformity in workplaces via DEI, climate concern, and mental health compliance.
Frames behavior expectations as “workplace insights,” shaping policy, HR, and education pipelines worldwide.
✅ Pew
Acts as controlled opposition: presents limited dissent to create the illusion of public debate.
Gathers psychographic data on political, religious, and moral beliefs—especially among youth.
Never challenges core globalist frameworks, keeping dissent inside the ideological sandbox.
✅ Gallup
Quantifies emotions and “well-being” to justify governance interventions.
Promotes metrics of happiness, stress, and identity to track social transformation goals.
Provides the emotional telemetry for nudging, workplace reform, and digital behavior scoring.
Together, they don’t just interpret the culture—they steer it, score it, and punish deviation from it.
The “Conservative Gen Z” Narrative as a Surveillance Trojan Horse
Here’s the core argument:
The narrative that Gen Z is turning conservative serves the regime, not because it’s true or disruptive—but because it is useful for control. It accomplishes three strategic objectives:
Ideological Profiling
As youth engage with anti-woke content, algorithms harvest behavioral markers.
These markers become part of a user's ideological fingerprint, used by platforms, employers, and government partners.
Tags like "religious absolutist," "gender traditionalist," or "sovereigntist" become risk indicators.
Pre-Crime Moderation and Soft Policing
Platforms like Palantir, Microsoft, and Gaggle already use AI to flag individuals for potential non-compliance.
HR software screens applicants for values misalignment.
EdTech systems flag students who display "rigidity" or "non-inclusive language."
Maintaining the Illusion of Free Speech
The system needs visible opposition to justify its existence.
By allowing some conservative sentiment to exist in tightly surveilled sandboxes (X, YouTube, Substack), it can map dissent, contain its spread, and gradually erode its reach.
Historical Precedent for Weaponized Polling
This isn’t new. We’ve seen it before:
Edward Bernays used polling to manufacture the appearance of consent for elite decisions.
Tavistock Institute weaponized group psychology to reshape norms after WWII.
The Kinsey Institute distorted sexual norms through falsified data and then used it to rewrite laws and education.
Today, those same tools have gone digital. The poll is no longer a mirror. It is a steering wheel.
The Coming Enforcement—From Behavioral Polling to Biometric Control
What begins as “data-driven insight” soon becomes lived reality.
As governments, corporations, and NGOs converge around digital ID systems, ESG scores, and AI-enhanced HR platforms, we are entering a world where your values will determine your access to life itself.2
🔻 Food
Mastercard and the WEF piloted a carbon-credit card that blocks transactions after a user's emissions limit is reached.
Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) prototypes include programmability features to restrict or expire funds based on user behavior or location.
🔻 Healthcare
WHO’s Smart Vaccination Certificate initiative links identity, health status, and travel rights.
Mental health integration frameworks propose using digital behavior to pre-qualify or restrict access to care based on "risk profiles."
🔻 Employment
HR systems like Workday and SuccessFactors integrate "values-based filtering" and AI-driven personality assessments.
Dissent on gender ideology, ESG mandates, or nationalism can result in algorithmic blacklisting.
🔻 Travel and Access
EU Digital ID Wallets are being rolled out to combine vaccine status, financial tools, and behavioral credentials.
China’s social credit model has already shown how online posts can restrict train tickets, air travel, or even broadband access.
What This Means
Polling isn’t just about shaping belief. It’s about building the data scaffolding for a biometric caste system: The behavioral programming disguised as polling isn’t academic, it’s infrastructure for a biometric caste system.
If you reject gender ideology,
If you speak biblical truth,
If you question climate policy,
If you resist the collectivist narrative—
You will be marked as non-compliant.
Not with a yellow star, but with a flag in your digital profile, visible to banks, HR systems, school portals, healthcare providers, border agents and more.
Corporate Patriotism and the Weaponization of Trust
Take a look at the sponsors of America 250 U.S. Army Parade—the U.S. government’s semiquincentennial celebration. What do you see?
Palantir: global surveillance and predictive policing.
Oracle: military cloud infrastructure and behavioral data warehousing.
Goldman Sachs and BNY: financial gatekeepers for the future CBDC system.
Lockheed Martin: weapons and space-based command.
Coinbase: digital currency normalization.
All under the banner of patriotism.
This isn’t accidental. These brands are participating in the ritual merger of corporate surveillance, psychological warfare, and national identity. America 250 is not simply a celebration. It is a rebranding of technocracy as liberty.
The real flag being flown is biometric. The real battlefield is behavioral. The real enemy is discernment.
To question this merger will be seen as unpatriotic. To resist it will soon be called unsafe.
They Told Us the Plan In Their Own Words
This isn’t conjecture. The architects of technocratic behavioral governance have openly published their intentions. From WEF white papers to UN policy briefings, they’ve made it clear: digital identity, programmable finance, and psychometric compliance are the new tools of global order.
📌 From the WEF:
“In the not-too-distant future, personalized carbon allowances will be implemented to regulate individual behavior.”
— WEF Insight Report, 2022: “Advancing Climate Transition”
📌 From the UNDP:
“Digital identity is the foundational layer for achieving all Sustainable Development Goals. It enables access to services, finance, mobility, and legal rights.”
— United Nations Development Programme, “Digital ID for Development,” 2023
📌 From the Bank of International Settlements (BIS):
“Central Bank Digital Currencies allow for programmability, enabling control over where, when, and for what purpose money is spent.”
— BIS Report: “CBDCs: Opportunities for a New Financial Infrastructure,” 2022
📌 From the OECD:
“Mental health metrics, combined with behavioral data, can offer early warnings for intervention before non-compliant or extremist behavior escalates.”
— OECD Paper: “Mental Health in the Digital Age,” 2023
🧠 These are not warnings, they’re blueprints, documented evidence of intent.
Bottom Line
These types of consumer research surveys function as a trifecta of social engineering in three distinct but converging ways:
Predictive Framing: Mapping the Mind for Manipulation
Surveys like Deloitte’s don’t merely observe cultural shifts; they instantiate them by defining what is socially acceptable, desirable, and employable. By measuring “what Gen Z and Millennials value”—such as work/life balance, mental well-being, soft skills, environmental activism, and “purpose”—they construct psychological profiles that are fed into AI governance systems. These values are then algorithmically reinforced through HR policies, marketing strategies, ESG metrics, and education reforms.
“Organizations should clearly define and communicate their purpose… tapping into motivation as a means of influencing worker behavior” (Deloitte 2025, p. 38)2025-genz-millennial-su….
This is not observation. It’s operationalization.
Therapeutic Indoctrination: Replacing Morality with Managerial Psychology
Instead of asking why a generation feels spiritually, economically, and mentally unstable, the survey prescribes therapeutic interventions rooted in mental health narratives, “purpose,” and “soft skills.” The underlying framework is psychological conditioning. This masks Marxist collectivist ideals—like dissolving objective truth, biblical morality, and individual responsibility—behind terms like “empathy,” “resilience,” and “identity alignment.”
“Happiness = money + meaning + well-being” is the manufactured religion of this order2025-genz-millennial-su….
It reduces human flourishing to HR-sanctioned self-help within technocratic constraints.
Workforce Weaponization: Lifelong Learning as Social Credit Training
The report glorifies “career fluidity,” “lifelong development,” and the decline of higher education in favor of modular, corporate-approved upskilling. But this is not about opportunity. It’s about constructing a compliant global labor force—where Gen Z and Millennials are conditioned to constantly adapt to AI, ESG, and stakeholder values or risk exclusion from employment.
“Gen Zs and millennials believe soft skills—like empathy and leadership—are more important than ever” (p. 9).
“Learning and development should be continuous... at each stage of a person’s career” (p. 11)2025-genz-millennial-su….
This model echoes Lucian Tarnowski’s “lifelong learners” indoctrination—a gamified behavioral matrix aligned to planetary governance and enforced through corporate hiring gatekeeping.
Beyond Hegelian Left and Hegelian Right, Toward Truth
The narrative that "Gen Z is conservative" is not a threat to the system. It is bait. Bait for data capture. Bait for ideological mapping. Bait for soft social credit systems. And bait for conservatives to sit back, celebrate, and stop resisting.
The real battle isn’t left vs. right. It’s God’s truth vs. technocratic control. It’s free will vs. engineered consent. It’s your soul vs. their system.
And polling is a spell they cast to make you think you’re free.
We must not be deceived into thinking that the tide is turning back toward conservatism or biblical values. The idea that society is becoming more tolerant of truth, tradition, or God’s law is part of the illusion. In reality, this narrative is being weaponized to lull us into false comfort.
*See AoT’s upcoming article about our nation’s global governance approved Religious Liberty Commission. Watch 26 sec vid clip below.
The Get Real Takeaway
When they tell you Gen Z is the most conservative generation since World War II, beware. That narrative isn’t a victory for traditional values; it’s a psychological snare. It lures the public into complacency while serving as a tool for profiling, tracking, and preemptively policing dissent. Behind the headlines, powerful institutions like Deloitte, Pew, and Gallup are not celebrating a conservative revival, they’re mapping it, labeling it, and feeding it into AI systems that determine who gets hired, who gets flagged, and who gets silenced. In a world run by technocrats, even your perceived resistance is engineered into the system. Don’t mistake their data games for grassroots momentum. It’s not a shift, it’s surveillance.
To new readers of Armor of Truth: This analysis doesn’t come from the outside looking in, I contributed to the infrastructure of cultural influence before I realized what it really was.
A Former Insider Exposes Global Syndicated Media Coup
Inside the Global Media Syndicate: What I Saw Behind the Curtain
The Insider Becomes the Witness
I didn’t come to this knowledge through conspiracy videos or fringe forums. I was inside the machine, shaping the future one campaign, one focus group, one “trend forecast” at a time.
Stay tuned for an upcoming article uncovering the shadow-side of Gen Z and Gen Alpha examining the rise of nihilism, identity collapse, and the spiritual vacuum shaping the next generation. While the previous analysis of the Zizians hinted at where this is heading, this new piece goes even deeper into the cultural undercurrents driving a generation adrift.
Thank you for your time and attention.
Soli Deo Gloria
Summer Black, Director, Armor of Truth
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Academic and Technical Reports
Bank for International Settlements. Central Bank Digital Currencies: Opportunities for a New Financial Infrastructure. Basel: BIS Report, 2022.
Center for Predictive Policing. Early Indicators of Extremism: Behavioral Risk Modeling and Community Surveillance. University of Chicago, CP3, 2023.
Deloitte. 2025 Global Gen Z and Millennial Survey. New York: Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, 2025.
Department of Homeland Security. Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program: Fiscal Year 2024 Notice of Funding Opportunity. Washington, DC: DHS, 2024.
European Commission. EU Digital Identity Wallet: Pilot Programs and Governance Frameworks. Brussels: European Commission Directorate-General for Communications Networks, 2024.
Gallup. Global Emotions Report 2024: The State of Emotional Health and Workplace Engagement. Washington, DC: Gallup, 2024.
Kinsey, Alfred. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948.
Microsoft Corporation. Responsible AI Standards and Harm Taxonomy Toolkit. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Research Division, 2023.
MITRE Corporation. SemaFor: Semantic Forensics for Disinformation Detection. Bedford, MA: MITRE, 2023.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Mental Health and the Digital Society: Early Risk Detection and AI Ethics. Paris: OECD Digital Economy Report, 2023.
Palantir Technologies. Gotham System Capabilities Briefing for Law Enforcement. Palo Alto, CA: Palantir, 2023.
Pew Research Center. Political and Cultural Attitudes of Gen Z: 2024 Snapshot. Washington, DC: Pew Research, 2024.
SAP SuccessFactors. Values-Based Hiring and ESG Compliance in the Workplace. Walldorf: SAP Technical White Paper, 2023.
SHRM and IBM. AI, Bias, and the Future of Hiring: Building Inclusive Algorithms. Washington, DC: Society for Human Resource Management, 2024.
Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. Human Relations and Democratic Leadership: Wartime Foundations of Social Psychology. London: Tavistock Archives, 1950.
United Nations Development Programme. Digital ID and the Future of Governance: Technical Blueprint for Identity Integration. New York: UNDP, 2023.
United Nations Development Programme. Digital ID for Sustainable Development: Infrastructure Blueprint. New York: UNDP, 2023.
U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission. “America 250 Sponsors.” Sponsor Registry, 2025.
World Bank. Identification for Development (ID4D): 2023 Annual Report. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2023.
World Economic Forum. Advancing Climate Transition: Carbon Budgeting and Personal Consumption Monitoring. Geneva: WEF White Paper, 2022.
World Health Organization. Global Digital Health Certification Network (GDHCN): Technical Specifications and Governance. Geneva: WHO, 2023.
Journal Articles
Pennycook, Gordon, and David Rand. “Conservatism as a Predictor of Susceptibility to Disinformation.” Journal of Applied Psychology 107, no. 2 (2022): 285–304.
Roccas, Sonia, and Lilach Sagiv. “Religious Fundamentalism and Cognitive Rigidity.” Behavioral Sciences 11, no. 3 (2021): 85–98.
Investigative and News Media
Bernays, Edward. Propaganda. New York: Horace Liveright, 1928.
The 74 Million. “Gaggle and EdTech Surveillance in U.S. Classrooms.” The 74, March 2024.
The Intercept. “Palantir Knows Everything About You.” The Intercept, October 2023.
“Palantir Knows Everything About You,” The Intercept, October 2023
In the early 2000s, Iconoculture presented me with the certain future of the Triple Bottom Line—People, Planet, Profits—which I later learned is a technocratic metric system birthed from the Club of Rome. The “Triple P” framework is embedded without the public ever realizing it. What seems like cultural evolution is actually guided messaging serving a globalist architecture.
The Coming Enforcement From Behavioral Polling to Biometric Control
What begins as “data-driven insight” soon becomes lived reality.
As governments, corporations, and NGOs converge around digital ID systems, ESG scores, and AI-enhanced HR platforms, we are entering a world where your values will determine your access to life itself.
🔻 Food
Digital rationing is already underway under the banner of “sustainable consumption.”
In 2024, the World Economic Forum and Mastercard partnered to pilot a carbon-based credit card that cuts off spending when you’ve “used up” your carbon allowance.
CBDC frameworks (Central Bank Digital Currencies) are being developed with programmability, allowing governments to restrict purchases based on behavior, location, or even ideology.
📄 Bank of International Settlements: “Enabling CBDC Programmability” (2023)
📄 WEF + Mastercard Carbon Limit Pilot (2022)
🔻 Healthcare
Behavior-linked access is being built into digital health infrastructure.
WHO’s Smart Vaccination Certificate, part of the Global Digital Health Certification Network (GDHCN), connects identity, travel, and medical status.
Future rollouts will likely integrate mental health risk scores, vaccine compliance, and gender ideology alignment into care protocols especially for youth and “vulnerable” populations.
📄 World Health Organization: GDHCN Infrastructure Blueprint (2023)
📄 OECD: “Mental Health and Digital Society” (2023)
🔻 Employment
HR tech already uses values-alignment algorithms to filter candidates.
Platforms like Workday, SuccessFactors, and HireVue incorporate behavioral prediction models and DEI compliance scoring.
Increasingly, beliefs about gender, climate, race, and nationalism are treated as risk factors, especially in finance, education, and health sectors.
📄 SHRM and IBM: “Future of Work and AI Screening” (2024)
📄 SAP SuccessFactors: “Inclusive Hiring Models” White Paper (2023)
🔻 Social Credit and Travel
China’s Social Credit System has already demonstrated how “thought crimes” and online posts can be used to block air travel, hotel bookings, and even internet access.
The EU and UN are advancing digital ID wallets tied to vaccine status, digital currency, and green behavior creating a universal “trust score.”
📄 EU Digital Identity Wallet Pilot Programs (2024)
📄 UNDP Digital ID Blueprint (2023)
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