What began as a simple family tree project turned into something much deeper: a personal excavation of forgotten lives, social class, and the long shadow of recordkeeping. As names surfaced—laborers, servants, coachmen, laundresses—it became clear that these people weren’t remembered. They were recorded.
This wasn’t genealogy. It was population management history.
Citizen Erased follows the evolution of identity and control—from parish registers and census books to biometric IDs and platform compliance. It’s a journey through class, containment, brief ownership, and the reassertion of technocratic governance. It asks: who gets remembered, who gets erased, and what does freedom look like now?
Read the Series
- Genealogy and Class – Whose Ancestors Get Remembered?
Most working-class people only appear in records when useful to the system. This post explores class-based remembrance and institutional recordkeeping. - Recordkeeping as Population Control
From parish books to civil registers, systems of record were never for you—they were for those who needed to manage you. - The Urban Throughput Machine
Industrial cities didn’t grow organically—they were engineered to extract labor and rent, and working-class families were the fuel. - Immigration and the Maintenance of Throughput
When local labor faltered, the system imported new people to keep the machine running. Immigration was a structural requirement, not a humanitarian gesture. - The Baby Boomer Divergence
For one generation, ownership and security were possible. But this was a systemic exception—brief, conditional, and now closed. - Agenda 2030 and the Great Reset – The Return to Serfdom?
Under the guise of sustainability and equity, modern systems are reasserting centralized control—digital ID, programmable money, and behavior-based access. - From Parish Register to Digital ID – A Timeline of Control
A 500-year journey from hand-written ledgers to biometric databases. The methods changed, the intent never did. - What Freedom Looks Like Now
After centuries of control, what does modern freedom look like? Not on a platform. Not on a ledger. This post imagines freedom outside the grid.
Why This Matters
Citizen Erased is not a conspiracy theory. It’s not nostalgia. It’s a systems-based look at how lives are structured, remembered, and controlled—from one family’s forgotten laborers to a global push for digital containment.
If you’ve ever felt like something doesn’t add up in the way identity, participation, and autonomy work today—this series is for you.
Start at the beginning. Read. Reflect. Resist.