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From Ledger to Lockup (Part 5 of 10)
When pauper children grew up, they became problems. Lichfield’s Actons show how names assigned for throughput ended in prison, asylum, or oblivion.
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Ghosts in the Tree (Part 6 of 10)
The Actons of Lichfield may never have existed as a family. Their name was reused across pauper children. Genealogy meets identity fraud — by design.
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The Throughput Machine (Part 7 of 10)
The poor weren’t cared for. They were processed. Church, Crown, and economy fed on pauper children. Lichfield’s Actons reveal a machine, not a family.
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Citizen Erased (Part VIII) – What Freedom Looks Like Now
Freedom isn’t found in paperless systems or platform compliance. After centuries of recordkeeping, throughput, and control, real freedom is outside the grid.
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Citizen Erased (Part VII) – From Parish Register to Digital ID – A Timeline of Control
From baptismal books to biometric databases, recordkeeping has evolved in form but not in function—its goal has always been to monitor, manage, and mould populations.
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Citizen Erased (Part VI) – Agenda 2030 & the Great Reset – The Return to Serfdom?
After a brief postwar break from the cycle of control, modern governance is returning populations to digital dependency, framed as sustainability and equity.
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Citizen Erased (Part V) – Baby Boomer Divergence
The postwar generation broke the cycle of throughput and became owners. But they weren’t the norm—they were the exception, and the system is closing behind them.
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Citizen Erased (Part IV) – Immigration & the Maintenance of Throughput
Industrial cities didn’t just use immigration—they required it. London’s growth depended on a constant inflow of new labor to keep the urban throughput machine running.
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Citizen Erased (Part III) – The Urban Throughput Machine
Industrial cities like 19th-century London didn’t just grow—they were engineered to extract labor, circulate populations, and centralize wealth. The working class wasn’t rising—they were flowing.
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Citizen Erased (Part II) – Recordkeeping as Population Control
From parish ledgers to biometric IDs, recordkeeping has always served institutional power—not remembrance. It counts people not for who they are, but for what they’re for.