A long but very interesting read from ZH.
Thinking BIG picture, how do we (the people) break the hold/control?
Maybe replacement of the monetary system is a start?
Maybe calling to account those that abuse their positions of power, by revealing their wrong doings?
Maybe it is as simple as 'waking people up'?
For thousands of years “control” of humans, both at the micro individual and macro collective level, was obvious and institutionalized. It was the way the world worked, with pharaohs, chiefs, kings and queens, along with their sycophant and supporting courts, wielding power and control at the top. Arrayed along the bottom were the slaves, serfs and peons of various rank and stature, while scattered about the thin middle were the skilled tradesmen, shopkeepers and professionals such as they were.It was the most effective social order of all millennium; a control system based upon claimed mutual benefit through the collective sharing of resources and defense, though never fairly or just. With disease, pestilence, hunger and death always lurking around the corner, it just made good sense to gather in groups and subsist as best we could. The pecking order quickly sorted out, with sociopaths and ruthless killers quickly rising to the top.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-25/essence-control-its-concealment