"Value(s)": a review of the System, the Book, and the Man who built it...
Mark Carney's blueprint for obedience, institutional morality, and behavioural control.
THE NORMALIZATION OF CONTROL
Mark Carney, “Values”, and the Behavioral Blueprint of Technocratic Power
Mark Carney doesn’t introduce himself as an ideologue.
He arrives with pedigree, Harvard, Oxford, Goldman Sachs, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England. His public profile is clean, composed, and globally trusted. To most, he represents calm authority in an unstable world.
But Values: Building a Better World for All, published in 2021, is not the book of a stabilizer… It is the philosophical scaffolding of a social engineer.
Carney’s stated goal is to bring markets back in alignment with “moral values”; but, he doesn’t mean virtue in a classical sense. He means institutional morality… defined by the climate crisis, the language of justice, and the belief that individual choice must be constrained for collective good.
He writes:
“The financial system must be transformed to deliver not only value, but values… to align with the needs of a sustainable economy.”
The shift is subtle.
He’s not proposing tweaks to capitalism. He’s reassigning its purpose…from individual freedom to system-directed compliance. And his tool of choice is behavioural normalization through policy, finance, and pre-suasion.
Manufactured Consent, Technocratic Style
Throughout Values, Carney poses deliberately provocative questions:
Should sex be up for sale?
Should there be a market in the right to have children?
Should people be allowed to buy their way out of military service?
He doesn’t endorse these positions. He doesn’t need to.
The behavioral tactic is clear: present the unacceptable as a thought experiment, then slowly nudge the public toward tolerance.
This is not a conspiracy theory… it’s documented cognitive strategy.
Psychologist Robert Cialdini calls this pre-suasion: influencing outcomes by controlling what people focus on before a decision is made. In propaganda theory, it’s called shifting the Overton Window. In behavioral economics, it’s nudging through exposure. In authoritarian regimes, it was known simply as rehearsal.
The point is not to argue. The point is to make the unthinkable feel possible, and eventually inevitable.
Normalization Through Crisis Framing
Carney’s entire framework is built on the assumption that we are in a permanent state of crisis… First financial, then ecological, then moral. This is the psychological terrain where control becomes palatable.
“The climate crisis is the greatest commercial opportunity of our time”
~Mark Carney, various speeches and UN Climate Finance Summits
It’s a strange way to frame an emergency. But not if you understand the behavioral model behind it. Carney and his institutional allies don’t see crisis as tragedy. They see it as the necessary fuel to bypass public resistance. Climate becomes the perfect lever: moral, urgent, and unchallengeable.
This is how normalization proceeds:
Crisis narrative is established.
"The planet is dying. This is an existential emergency."Proposed interventions are framed as non-optional.
"We can’t wait. ESG, carbon pricing, and behavior modification must be implemented immediately."Personal freedoms are reinterpreted as liabilities.
"You may choose what you eat, drive, or build…but if your choices harm the collective, you will pay the price"Compliance is rewarded. Resistance is punished.
"Banks, landlords, and insurers may refuse service to those who don’t align with Net Zero values"The system calls this morality.
"This isn’t control. It’s progress."
This is coercive moralism layered on top of financial architecture. You’re not told what to do. You’re told what the market can no longer allow.
The Shift from Free Citizens to Programmed Participants
Carney insists that the transformation must come not just through government, but through private finance. That’s the core function of ESG: to outsource enforcement to corporations and institutions. He admits that public policy moves too slowly…and that banks, insurers, and asset managers must lead the behavioral shift.
In other words, you will not be regulated directly. You will be regulated financially.
Your vehicle will be priced out of existence through carbon and insurance frameworks
Your home will be devalued unless it meets green energy certifications
Your food will become more expensive depending on its carbon impact
Your access to capital may depend on your adherence to climate and social metrics
None of this requires a law… It only requires a system in which morality is embedded in credit scoring, asset pricing, and consumer infrastructure, exactly what Carney proposes in Values and what he began implementing at the Bank of England years prior.
The Moral Trojan Horse
The most dangerous part of Values is not what it says… but how it’s framed.
Carney presents himself not as a reformer of systems, but as a guardian of virtue. He critiques capitalism not from the outside like Marx, but from the inside like a benevolent operator. But his solution is not freedom-enhancing. It is compliance-based.
“The task of the twenty-first century is to build an economy that works for everyone.”
~Mark Carney, Values
But it won’t.
Not if “working for everyone” means dismantling personal agency and replacing it with institutional enforcement wrapped in ethical language.
Carney doesn’t declare war on individual liberty.
He simply prices it out of reach.
THE ESG ENGINE CARNEY BUILT
How the Bank of England became a prototype for moralized financial control
Mark Carney’s Values doesn’t just propose a new economic philosophy, it codifies a strategy that was already underway while he was Governor of the Bank of England. What many readers fail to grasp is that Carney’s vision wasn’t born in theory. It was prototyped in policy.
Between 2013 and 2020, the Bank of England, under Carney’s leadership, implemented a series of measures that quietly reshaped the purpose of finance. These were not market-driven responses. They were behaviourally engineered constraints, designed to reprogram institutional and individual behavior in alignment with climate ideology.
From Risk Management to Moral Enforcement
Carney’s major innovation was to frame climate change as a systemic financial risk. This was not a scientific claim… it was a reframing device, meant to bring ESG policies into the heart of banking regulation.
He argued that:
Environmental degradation could trigger asset devaluation
Carbon-intensive industries posed long-term threats to financial stability
Investors and insurers needed to account for these risks in pricing and lending
At first glance, this seems prudent. But in execution, it created a new moral leverage point inside finance itself. If an asset could be reclassified as “risky” for environmental reasons, it could also be:
Denied insurance
Flagged for divestment
Penalized in stress testing
Or revalued downward by rating agencies
This meant that climate ideology could be embedded into capital allocation, not by elected policymakers… but by regulatory fiat.
Climate Stress Testing: A Behavioural Weapon
One of Carney’s key tools was the introduction of climate stress testing for financial institutions. Banks were required to model scenarios in which the value of fossil-fuel-linked assets collapsed due to policy shifts or market abandonment.
But these weren’t neutral simulations. They were built on Net Zero assumptions, presuming massive behavioral change, punitive regulation, and stranded asset outcomes. This made banks hypersensitive to political risk… incentivizing them to exit carbon-heavy portfolios before the state ever passed a law.
This is regulatory pre-suasion in practice:
Simulate a nightmare
Make the cost seem inevitable
Shift behavior without public debate
And because it was framed as “prudence,” it was immune to criticism. In reality, it trained banks to punish certain sectors preemptively… especially energy, manufacturing, and agriculture.
The Silent Excommunication of Carbon
Carney often speaks of the “tragedy of the horizon”… the idea that climate risks lie beyond the immediate decision-making timeframe of markets. His solution was to force those risks into the present via policy modeling and disclosure mandates.
This led to:
The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), which Carney co-founded
ESG ratings tied to carbon output, diversity metrics, and “social impact”
Regulatory nudges to encourage green bond issuance and sustainable investment indices
The result was a shift in what finance considered permissible.
If your business was fossil-fuel-intensive, non-compliant with diversity or carbon norms, or not aligned with “sustainability,” it didn’t matter how profitable or essential it was. It became unbankable, uninsurable, or uninvestable.
This is not capitalism.
This is moral compliance economics, enforced by algorithms and rating systems outside of democratic reach.
From Prototype to Global Framework
After stepping down from the Bank of England, Carney didn’t retire. He globalized his model.
He became the UN Special Envoy for Climate Finance
Took a leadership role in the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ)
Partnered with the World Economic Forum to embed ESG targets into multinational corporations
Promoted the idea that over $100 trillion in capital must be redirected in the coming decades to meet Net Zero goals
In every case, the structure is the same:
Institutions define the moral frame
Finance systems enforce it
Individuals adapt… or are priced out
And it all began in earnest at the Bank of England, where he proved that you don’t need to ban something to destroy it… you just need to make it financially unviable.
ESG as a System of Behavioral Control
This is why Values cannot be read as philosophy. It is a justification document for a system already operational.
Carney writes:
“The climate crisis must be addressed by aligning financial flows with sustainable outcomes.”
~Values, Ch. 10
But “sustainable outcomes” are not neutrally defined. They are framed by elite institutions, then baked into financial code through ESG metrics. If you reject the values, the system rejects you… economically, reputationally, and eventually socially.
This is not about emissions.
It is about submission.
THE PRICING OF OBEDIENCE
When morality is financialized, freedom becomes a subscription service
Mark Carney’s Values argues that the global economy must be restructured around shared moral principles… particularly environmental sustainability and social equity. But beneath the polished language, what Carney is proposing is a system in which compliance replaces consent, and access replaces ownership.
In this system, freedom is no longer your default state.
It is a conditional asset, dynamically priced based on your behavior.
This is not a metaphor.
It is the actual consequence of embedding ESG principles into the institutions that mediate daily life… banks, insurers, property markets, food supply chains, and digital infrastructure.
Your Property is the First Target
In Values, Carney states:
“Stranded assets will include fossil fuel reserves, internal combustion engine vehicles, and inefficient buildings”
This is not just a prediction. It is a policy directive…one already being implemented through:
Energy benchmarking laws that fine non-compliant property owners
Carbon taxes and insurance premiums tied to building performance
Financing restrictions for “unsustainable” homes and agricultural practices
Secondary market collapses for gasoline vehicles based on regulatory bans
If you own property that doesn’t meet ESG-aligned standards, it will gradually become:
Uninsurable
Undervalued
Unmarketable
Eventually, unlivable without major retrofits… mandated and monitored by the state or its proxies
This is not about climate. It’s about control through engineered scarcity and forced obsolescence.
The Death of Ownership, the Rise of Access
In a system where ESG-aligned institutions determine value, private ownership becomes a liability:
Owning a vehicle exposes you to emissions scrutiny, congestion charges, fuel penalties, and resale risk
Owning land ties you to compliance with conservation mandates, agricultural rules, and land-use limits
Owning a business makes you vulnerable to ESG ratings, social media audits, and financial deplatforming
As ownership becomes more expensive and risk-loaded, subscription-based alternatives are promoted as “freedom-enhancing”:
Mobility-as-a-service instead of car ownership
Smart homes you don’t control but rent from ESG-certified providers
Prepackaged food allowances aligned with carbon impact scores
Tokenized identity and health credentials linked to insurance access and travel permissions
All of this is sold as innovation.
But when access is conditional, and ownership is punished, what you are left with is lifestyle leasing under moral surveillance.
Speech and Values as Economic Risk
ESG is not limited to the environment. The “S” in ESG, Social, is already being expanded to include:
Political alignment
Online behavior
Cultural opinions
Personal associations
We are entering an era where your beliefs are not simply disagreed with… they are de-risked from the financial system:
Your business loan may be denied if your marketing doesn’t align with “inclusivity” standards
Your payment processor may drop you if your personal content is flagged as “divisive”
Your ESG rating may be downgraded if your customers, employees, or vendors reflect “problematic” trends
Your digital profile may trigger algorithmic suppression based on noncompliance with “approved narratives”
This is not happening hypothetically. It is already occurring across sectors, with institutional backing and legal cover. In some countries, “social risk” is now formally assessed by banks, pension funds, and government auditors.
Carbon is the Universal Excuse
Carney’s genius, if it can be called that, was recognizing that carbon is the ideal behavioural regulator:
It’s invisible
It’s measurable
It’s moral
It’s global
It’s unprovable to the individual
Once carbon is assigned to every action, driving, eating, heating, speaking, hosting, traveling, it becomes the perfect unit of moral accounting.
You don’t need police to enforce behaviour.
You just need a carbon index tied to price, access, and social status.
From Pricing Goods to Pricing People
Carney doesn’t explicitly say this in Values, but the system he’s proposing leads to a world where:
You are worth less if your lifestyle is non-compliant
Your risk score rises if your habits are inefficient, traditional, or “carbon heavy”
Your access to services is tiered according to your alignment with ESG behavior
Your autonomy becomes the greatest cost of all
This is the logic of “values-based capitalism”:
Not that you are free to choose, but that your choices must serve institutional morality… or be economically penalized.
It is not just that ESG forces companies to behave.
It is that ESG trains you to submit—through money, mobility, and access.
STAKEHOLDER CAPITALISM IS JUST CONTROL BY COMMITTEE
When everyone is a stakeholder, no one is accountable; but, you’re still expected to obey
Mark Carney’s Values calls for a reorientation of capitalism around stakeholders rather than shareholders. He claims that corporations should not exist merely to maximize profit for owners, but to serve a broader set of interests: workers, communities, customers, ecosystems, and the public.
On paper, this sounds inclusive… even enlightened.
In practice, it creates a fog of responsibility, where decisions are no longer tied to owners or voters—but to ideological compliance filtered through boards, proxies, and unelected institutions.
Stakeholder capitalism is not democracy.
It’s technocratic collectivism, engineered to consolidate power in the name of protecting the powerless.
The Narrative Bait-and-Switch
Carney writes:
“Markets may be the most powerful instrument we have to address our environmental and social challenges - if we get the values right.”
This is the central bait.
First, he acknowledges the market's power.
Then he insists that it must be governed by external values.
But those values are never defined by citizens. They are defined by global frameworks, ESG panels, and regulatory consensus groups who answer to no one.
What Carney is building is not a better capitalism.
It is a privatized moral bureaucracy, where:
Policy is enforced by ratings agencies
Access is controlled by financial gatekeepers
Dissent is disincentivized, not through law, but through exclusion
This is how authoritarianism evolves in the post-legal era: not through crackdowns, but through compliance regimes with no clear villain to blame.
Who Is the Stakeholder?
In traditional business, accountability flows up: owners bear risk and receive return.
In stakeholder capitalism, the “beneficiaries” are everywhere, but none have voting rights. You don’t choose your ESG board. You don’t elect your DEI auditor. You don’t get to veto a carbon compliance policy that affects your mortgage, farm, or vehicle.
You are a “stakeholder” in name only.
Real control is held by:
International banking consortia
Central banks
ESG funds and asset managers (like BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard)
Global rating systems like S&P’s ESG index, MSCI, and CDP
Transnational groups like the WEF, GFANZ, and PRI (Principles for Responsible Investment)
You, as a worker or citizen, bear the consequences—but you have no seat at the table.
This is representation without participation.
No Market? No Vote? No Exit.
Stakeholder capitalism disables the two main feedback loops that keep power in check:
Market pressure (voting with your money)
Democratic pressure (voting with your voice)
ESG ratings override market demand.
Regulatory alignment bypasses democratic objection.
And when every major institution adopts the same “values,” there is no exit path for those who dissent.
Don’t like ESG food policies? Try finding a grocer that isn’t ESG-rated.
Don’t agree with DEI-based hiring? Your own job application may be filtered before a human sees it.
Don’t support carbon offsets? Good luck getting a loan for a farm or home renovation.
Don’t want your children subjected to “values education”? That curriculum is tied to funding metrics.
When all roads are paved by the same ideology, choice is an illusion.
Shared Responsibility, Zero Accountability
In Carney’s framework, every institution is supposed to act on behalf of “the planet,” “future generations,” and “marginalized voices.” But when these abstractions conflict, when harms arise, businesses fail, or people are excluded… no one is accountable.
ESG boards blame the regulators
Regulators defer to climate science panels
Banks say they're just responding to global standards
Corporations say they’re following the best available guidelines
Politicians claim the market has spoken
This is not decentralization.
It’s distributed authoritarianism… a system where every node enforces the rules, but none of them can be challenged directly.
The Moral Shield of Corporate Power
What stakeholder capitalism really offers is moral immunity for corporate power.
In the old system, if a corporation exploited workers or destroyed property rights, it could be sued, boycotted, or regulated.
In the ESG stakeholder system, that same corporation can defend itself by claiming it’s:
Fighting climate change
Championing social justice
Enforcing inclusion metrics
Aligning with global sustainability goals
This is the new defense:
“We’re not silencing you…we’re saving the planet.”
“We’re not excluding you… you failed to align with stakeholder values”
Under this logic, any violation of personal liberty can be rebranded as collective progress.
Your Moral Worth Is Being Scored…By Others
You are no longer a free individual in this model.
You are a behavioural unit in a financial system of moral assessment.
Your carbon score.
Your compliance with diversity norms.
Your acceptance of sustainability constraints.
Your ideological posture, social media history, and institutional affiliations.
These become indicators of value in a system no longer defined by production or mutual consent… but by adherence to the code of institutional virtue.
This is not inclusive capitalism.
It’s capitalism reprogrammed to reward obedience and penalize sovereignty.
And it is being sold as progress.
ENFORCEMENT… WITHOUT HANDCUFFS
The quiet exile of dissent in Carney’s moralized financial system
The most dangerous systems of control are not those that confront you directly.
They are the ones that quietly remove you, financially, digitally, and reputationally, until you no longer have access, status, or voice.
Mark Carney’s Values doesn’t propose tyranny in the traditional sense. It doesn’t threaten you with prison or exile.
Instead, it outlines a regime of quiet exclusion, in which dissenting behavior, ownership, or belief is punished economically, without formal charges or legal process.
This is the new authoritarianism:
No due process
No trial
No official ban
Just institutional non-participation, triggered by non-compliance with moral criteria defined by networks of unelected actors.
Behavioral Control Through Financial Infrastructure
In Carney’s model, enforcement comes not from police, but from protocols:
Banks may flag or terminate accounts linked to “reputational risk”
Payment processors may drop businesses based on ESG misalignment
Crowdfunding platforms may freeze or return donations for causes deemed “problematic”
Insurers may deny coverage for assets deemed carbon-excessive or politically exposed
Credit score providers may embed social and environmental metrics into risk models
Online platforms may algorithmically bury or demonetize those outside the acceptable narrative window
This is not a hypothetical scenario.
It is already happening…piecemeal, quietly, without the need for law.
Real-World Precedents
Consider the following:
Canadian truckers protesting COVID mandates had their bank accounts frozen… not for violence, but for supporting the “wrong cause”
UK challenger banks have closed accounts of public figures and commentators for failing to reflect “inclusive values”
GoFundMe and PayPal have withheld donations for causes or individuals considered politically sensitive
Insurers are increasingly tying coverage to ESG compliance scores for both commercial and personal property
Merchant services providers have refused service to gun shops, naturopaths, or publishers without explanation… just “policy violation”.
These examples span countries and sectors, but they all operate under the same principle:
moral compliance is a precondition for access.
Reputation as an Algorithmic Weapon
One of the most insidious tools in the values-based system is the reputational index… an invisible, unregulated network of scoring, flagging, and metadata aggregation.
These reputational systems:
Scrape your online content, business affiliations, and social behaviour
Map your associations, purchases, and political views
Apply AI-driven “trustworthiness” models based on compliance with institutional narratives
Share ratings and alerts with payment processors, ad networks, insurers, and banks
The result?
You’re not silenced by force…you’re de-risked out of the system.
No one needs to explain.
No one needs to notify you.
You simply lose visibility, access, and opportunity.
This is digital exile, enforced through code.
Erased, Not Arrested
In older authoritarian models, dissenters were jailed or exiled to make examples of them.
In Carney’s moralized system, that’s inefficient.
Far better to simply make you disappear financially and digitally…while claiming to uphold democratic norms.
You aren’t technically censored.
You just lose:
The ability to transact
The ability to amplify
The ability to earn
The ability to own
The ability to speak without penalty
You’re not oppressed. You’re just… missing.
This is governance by invisible veto.
Your rights exist on paper.
But your access to participate is conditional… scored, surveilled, and revocable.
Institutionalized Invisibility
Carney never says “we must deplatform dissent.”
He doesn’t have to.
His system doesn’t use boots and batons. It uses:
ESG filters
Carbon tracking
Reputational metadata
Algorithmic gatekeeping
Compliance scoring
Financial de-risking
These tools do not suppress with violence.
They suppress with plausible deniability.
The platform says, “You violated our policy.”
The bank says, “You no longer meet our risk profile.”
The advertiser says, “We want to avoid controversy.”
The system says, “You’re free to speak… just not here, not now, and not with our tools.”
That’s not liberty. That’s a permissioned existence.
Moral Framing as Immunity Shield
When you object, the system responds with moral superiority:
“We’re protecting the public.”
“We’re upholding values.”
“We’re supporting equity and sustainability.”
But behind the virtue language lies raw behavioral enforcement.
Carney’s “values” aren’t proposed for discussion. They are coded into the system…first as financial risk models, then as participation criteria.
And once they’re embedded, your disagreement becomes your disqualification.
TRAINING OBEDIENCE FROM WITHIN
How Carney’s values economy turns freedom into a performance…and morality into survival currency
The most effective form of control isn’t top-down. It’s internal.
It doesn’t force you to comply… it conditions you to want to.
Mark Carney’s Values doesn’t propose forced collectivism.
What it designs is a system where the cost of non-compliance becomes so high…financially, reputationally, socially, that people internalize the rules, modify their behavior, and self-censor to avoid exclusion.
This is behavioural engineering, not policy reform.
And it works not by suppressing rebellion… but by teaching people that obedience is safer, smarter, and morally superior.
The Anatomy of the Conditioning Loop
Carney’s model is not built on enforcement. It’s built on a loop of pressure and performance:
Crisis is declared: Climate emergency, social injustice, systemic risk
Moral framing is introduced: “We all have a duty to do our part”.
Behaviour is scored: Carbon footprint, ESG compliance, reputation metrics
Rewards are tied to alignment: Discounts, access, visibility, safety
Punishments are indirect: Shadowbans, higher costs, lost access, quiet rejection
People adapt: Not by conviction… but by survival instinct
This loop doesn’t just punish wrong behavior. It trains the body to flinch before making the wrong move. That’s not freedom. That’s a conditioned nervous system wired to obey.
Self-Censorship as a Safety Mechanism
In the world Carney envisions, your speech may still be “free”… but the consequences are financial, digital, and reputational:
You may post your views online….but risk losing your job or access to financial tools
You may protest policy…but find your GoFundMe shut down and your account under review
You may publish facts…but be labeled “misaligned with stakeholder values” by your payment provider.
So people learn:
What not to say
What not to support
What not to question
Which truth to pretend not to know
This is self-regulating obedience, cultivated through fear of exclusion.
The Rise of Moral Performance
In such a system, people don’t just avoid dissent… they learn to simulate alignment.
This includes:
Posting about ESG causes, even if you disagree
Displaying pronouns or political slogans to signal compliance
Publicly praising Net Zero, social equity, or “the science” to remain institutionally protected
Tailoring resumes, content, and social affiliations to meet ESG narrative expectations
This isn’t virtue. It’s theatre of allegiance… performed not to express belief, but to retain access.
Carney’s model rewards this behaviour explicitly. Companies are scored not just on profits, but on “values alignment,” “diversity representation,” and “sustainable governance.” Individuals are increasingly judged by proxies: employer compliance, online activity, and consumption patterns.
In this world, you don’t need to believe.
You just need to signal that you do.
Dependency as Control
The deeper genius of this model is not its surveillance… it’s the strategic removal of alternatives.
You want to opt out of ESG banking? You won’t find a noncompliant bank.
You want to build a private off-grid life? Insurance, land use rules, and code enforcement will make it nearly impossible.
You want to use cash, barter, or local currency? The system is being digitized and centralized to deny that option.
You want to host dissenting media? Infrastructure providers can quietly pull your plug… regardless of legality.
Carney’s system doesn’t imprison you.
It just removes all exits, then offers you one door: perform, obey, comply.
That’s not resilience. It’s dependency.
And it breeds adaptive learned helplessness: the psychological condition where individuals stop resisting, not because they agree… but because they’ve been trained to believe resistance is pointless.
Freedom Rebranded as Irresponsibility
Another psychological sleight-of-hand in Values is how freedom is reframed as recklessness:
Choosing a gas-powered car = environmental harm
Owning private land = privilege rooted in inequity
Questioning ESG = denialism or “radical individualism”
Demanding privacy = obstruction to safety and justice
Prioritizing profit = greed over people
In this narrative, those who resist the system are not rebels… they’re threats.
Dangerous. Selfish. Unfit to participate in the world being built.
This moral inversion is deliberate.
It makes questioning seem immoral.
It makes noncompliance feel dirty.
It makes sovereignty look antisocial.
Conditioning the Next Generation
The final layer of this reconditioning model is generational programming.
Carney’s values are being woven into:
School curriculums (climate emergency, equity-based learning, ESG projects)
Youth finance tools (green banking apps, carbon tracking gamification)
University admissions (diversity statements, climate activism credentials)
Early job markets (employer ESG rankings, social impact portfolios)
This isn’t education. It’s pre-alignment.
By the time a child becomes an adult in this system, they will have learned:
That truth must be framed for social impact
That choices are morally priced
That obedience is rewarded
That risk comes not from wrongdoing…but from “wrongspeak”
This is not the future.
It is the architecture of the present… refined by one of the most powerful unelected economic actors on Earth, and sold to the public as moral clarity.
THE RULES ARE FOR YOU, NOT FOR THEM
Carney’s moral economy exempts the architects while burdening the obedient
Mark Carney’s Values is filled with language about collective responsibility, moral purpose, and building a “sustainable economy for all”; but behind that polished rhetoric lies a truth he never confronts:
The architects of the system don’t live under its rules.
The banks that finance the ESG regime.
The corporations that anchor the “transition.”
The global forums that write the frameworks.
The politicians and asset managers who partner with them.
They are not sacrificing.
They are consolidating.
Carney’s system is not a great equalizer. It is a compliance mechanism for the masses, paired with immunity for those who enforce it.
The ESG Shield for Multinational Giants
Under the ESG system Carney helped pioneer, corporate virtue is scored… on paper.
The result is a system where:
A multinational can slash its local workforce, outsource production to coal-burning jurisdictions, and still improve its ESG score
A financial institution can underwrite authoritarian regimes as long as it issues the right number of “green bonds”
An investment firm can hold shares in dozens of polluting companies while offsetting with carbon credits…and call it “net zero”
A real estate fund can displace small landowners in the name of “sustainable development” and be awarded for urban density
This isn’t accountability.
It’s moral laundering… where corporations perform ethical compliance while evading the burden of real consequence.
Meanwhile, the carbon tax hits the commuter.
The food inflation hits the single parent.
The zoning regulation hits the rural builder.
The ESG scoring hits the entrepreneur trying to stay online.
The Global Forums That Never Go Without
Carney is a fixture in the World Economic Forum, UN panels, and global climate alliances that make sweeping declarations about reducing consumption, embracing limits, and “doing more with less.”
But these same forums:
Fly private
Convene in exclusive resorts
Maintain multi-residence lifestyles
Hold assets shielded through legal and accounting frameworks
Operate far beyond the tax, reporting, and compliance thresholds imposed on ordinary people
They preach degrowth while expanding their portfolios.
They declare that “you will own nothing and be happy”… while owning the infrastructure you’ll rent.
There is no sacrifice at the top.
Only ritual performance and selective immunity.
The Strategic Use of Corporate Veils
One of the quietest hypocrisies in the system is how corporate structure is used to shield elite lifestyles:
A high-net-worth individual can drive any vehicle, live in any property, fly anywhere…so long as the asset is owned through a corporation, not directly
A hedge fund can pour capital into mining, development, or fossil fuels… so long as it holds a matching green ETF or donates to the right nonprofit
A multinational can issue an ESG report filled with targets while doing nothing to change its material impact
This is not oversight. It’s dual-track living.
The message to the public is:
"Eat less, drive less, own less, use less, say less."
The message to the elite is:
"Just route it through the right structure."
Carney never addresses this contradiction. Because he benefits from it.
Manufactured Guilt, Selective Atonement
One of the psychological weapons in Values is how burden is shifted onto the conscience of the individual:
Do you drive too much?
Do you eat red meat?
Is your home energy-efficient enough?
Have you factored climate justice into your retirement investments?
Are you supporting companies with “problematic supply chains”?
But no such ethical interrogation is leveled at:
Sovereign wealth funds
Multinational conglomerates
Global pension pools
Asset managers with trillions under control
ESG consultants charging millions to greenwash portfolios
The guilt is manufactured for you.
The solution is sold back to you… by them.
You are the problem.
They are the platform.
Accountability for the Individual, Escape for the Institution
In a just society, power comes with responsibility.
In Carney’s system, power comes with insulation.
If you say the wrong thing online, your fundraiser may be pulled.
If a corporation funds child labor in the Congo, it can purchase a diversity training package and receive a higher ESG score.
If you don’t meet home efficiency codes, your mortgage becomes inaccessible.
If a developer evicts families to build a “green-certified” condo tower, they qualify for incentives.
If your personal carbon score is too high, you may lose access to travel.
If a logistics company emits a million times more CO2, it can still get favorable credit terms… as long as it reports it properly.
This is not equality.
This is ideological extraction—where virtue is imposed downward and benefit flows upward.
Values for Thee, Exemptions for Me
Carney’s entire book rests on the idea that markets must reflect shared values.
But what he never admits is this: those values are imposed…not lived.
The enforcement system is designed to be:
Distributed (no single hand to slap)
Automated (no single voice to question)
Moralized (no single action to resist)
Exempt for the elite (no penalty for the architects)
This is not moral leadership.
It is moralized feudalism, where institutions become the new lords, and citizens are the managed class.
THE SYSTEM IS FRAGILE… AND IT KNOWS IT
Why moralized control systems collapse, and how to break the psychological spell
Carney’s vision for a values-driven economy depends on one crucial condition:
Widespread emotional submission.
The system is not held together by law, reason, or evidence.
It is held together by moral pressure, compliance scoring, and the constant internal voice whispering, “Don’t be the one who speaks out.”
But here’s the truth buried beneath the ESG metrics and behavioral programming:
This system is fragile.
It only survives if you believe it’s inevitable.Once enough people stop pretending, stop signaling, stop complying performatively, it falls.
Every regime built on moral intimidation…not truth, eventually burns out. The moment it can no longer sustain fear, it disintegrates. Not with a bang, but with a sudden collective no.
Why the System is Inherently Weak
Despite the sophistication of its tools, Carney’s behavioral regime carries deep psychological weaknesses:
It requires constant maintenance of belief.
If people stop believing carbon credits solve anything…or that ESG scores mean anything, the entire structure becomes meaningless. It has no grounding in natural law or intrinsic value.It relies on internal policing.
If people stop self-censoring, the system loses its first and most critical layer of enforcement: fear of social exclusion.It cannot tolerate non-participation.
The model assumes total integration. One decentralized wave of mass refusal, of even 10%, can break the illusion of consent and render the scoring system toothless.Its moral authority is artificial.
Once people notice the elite hypocrisy, the immunity, the duplicity… it snaps the spell. Moral outrage becomes moral mockery.
The Warning Signs of Collapse
Control-based systems always produce early tremors before they fail. You can already see them:
Narrative fatigue: People are tuning out “emergency” messaging, climate, pandemic, equity… because it no longer feels urgent; it feels weaponized.
Moral inversion backlash: Citizens are noticing that “good people” are being punished, while corrupt institutions are celebrated for performative compliance.
Exodus from institutions: Rising distrust in media, banking, education, and government is not accidental… it reflects subconscious rejection of coercive moral framing.
Revolt of the competent: Small business owners, tradespeople, and producers are recognizing that the system punishes creation and rewards performance… so they’re withdrawing.
Emergence of parallel systems: Independent platforms, bartering, parallel currencies, alternative schooling, private insurance… all signal a refusal to play the moral game.
These aren’t random disruptions. They are symptoms of narrative failure.
Carney’s model assumes you will stay plugged in.
But more people are unplugging… and the system has no Plan B for that.
The Power of Saying “No”
You don’t need to be a revolutionary to collapse the system.
You just need to stop pretending it’s right.
That means:
Saying no to values you don’t believe in
Refusing to perform alignment for safety
Refusing to parrot ESG, DEI, or Net Zero language to protect your image
Supporting people who have been quietly blacklisted or de-risked
Building resilience into your home, business, and identity outside institutional scaffolding
The system doesn’t fear protest. It fears disengagement.
Not loud rebellion… but silent non-compliance, coordinated moral defiance, and principled visibility.
Collapse Begins with Clarity
Psychological resistance starts with truth without apology:
You’re not a bad person if you drive a gas vehicle.
You’re not immoral for wanting to own land.
You’re not dangerous for asking who writes the rules.
You’re not antisocial for resisting forced collectivism.
You’re not selfish for wanting autonomy, privacy, and free association.
When that clarity returns, without guilt or compromise, the moral enforcement layer breaks.
Because it can no longer hijack your conscience.
Your Mind is the Firewall
Behavioral economics is built on one goal: predict and nudge you toward compliance.
But once you see the mechanism… nudge, normalize, reward, isolate, you gain back control.
This is what Carney fears.
Not criticism. Not protest.
Psychological autonomy.
Citizens who recognize the trick.
Who understand the frame.
Who see the pattern.
Who stop playing the game.
Because once enough people step out of the loop…
The loop collapses.
AFTER CARNEY… BUILDING WHAT COMES NEXT
The exit from technocratic obedience isn’t protest… it’s principled sovereignty
Mark Carney’s Values paints a picture of the future.
Not a free future. Not a human future.
A measured future. A scored future. A managed future.
One where institutions define your morality, price your behaviour, and gatekeep your access.
But Carney’s future is already failing.
And what comes next depends on what we build, not what we resist.
If we want to outlive the “values-based control grid”, we have to stop asking for permission to exist inside it.
We have to start building outside the walls… with clear minds, aligned actions, and no apologies.
What Must Be Rejected Entirely
This isn’t about tweaking the system. It’s about departing from its frame.
Here’s what must be consciously, publicly rejected:
The idea that freedom must be justified by utility
The belief that institutions determine morality
The framing of carbon as a universal sin
The use of algorithms to grade people’s worth
The normalization of forced scarcity as justice
The outsourcing of truth to “approved panels”
The idea that access to commerce, housing, speech, or movement should ever depend on values compliance
If any part of your life is governed by that structure, it’s time to cut it loose or outgrow it.
The cost of staying plugged in is rising.
The cost of standing out is clarity… and courage.
What Must Be Reclaimed
Real value isn’t ESG-compliant.
It’s earned, created, offered, and chosen freely.
Here’s what must be reclaimed… personally and collectively:
Autonomy: the right to think, speak, build, and buy without institutional permission
Private exchange: local trade, direct payment, resource bartering, trust-based contracts
Physical ownership: land, tools, housing, equipment, real assets…not subscription services
True education: skills over ideology, critical thinking over conditioning
Aligned community: built not on compliance, but shared ethics and mutual defense
Long-term resilience: water, food, energy, privacy, sovereignty… outside the digital control grid
You don’t have to be a prepper.
You just have to unplug your dependencies one at a time, and build what you actually believe in.
What Sovereignty Looks Like in Practice
Sovereignty is not isolation.
It’s responsibility. Ownership. Alignment between what you believe and how you live… without waiting for approval.
You grow, even if only a little
You own, even if it’s not optimized
You barter, even if it’s informal
You speak, even if it costs you reach
You build, even if it’s modest
You serve your values, not the values cooked in a think tank
Carney built a system of elegant punishment and filtered permission.
You can dismantle it by removing the demand for its services.
Start where you are.
Withdraw your energy.
Redirect your money.
Reclaim your mindset.
This is what it means to walk away while still standing upright.
We Do Not Need Their Future
Carney believes the market must reflect shared values.
But free people don’t share values because they’re told to.
They share values because they are free to choose them.
This series was never just about Carney.
It was about the behavioural framework of soft-authoritarianism… and the people who dress it up in polished language and corporate alliances.
They think they can predict your behaviour.
They think they can price your lifestyle.
They think they can program your morality.
But they can’t touch what they can’t access:
Your principled “no”
Your unrecorded trade
Your private conversations
Your backyard exchange
Your ancestral memory
Your spiritual allegiance
Your willingness to live in truth, even if it’s inconvenient
That is not priced.
That is not scored.
That is free.
The exit is not in protest.
It’s in refusal, replacement, and re-alignment.Not with their values.
With your own.