Slavery.

In the old days nations used to fight in a disorderly way. Without any tactics or strategy. With clubs and rocks and anything else at hand. It was a messy business.
Then the strongest nations started to gather knowledge. They called it education. This allowed them to create better weapons and fight orderly wars, and take many prisoners which they sold to their neighbours as slaves. This was called forced slavery. It was enforced with violence.
Slave trading was a lucrative business, but wars were costly and there were always casualties on both sides. A solution to this problem had to be found, and after much deliberation it was decided that the best answer was to educate their enemies. This would allow them to make better weapons right up to those of mass destruction, which the terrorists promptly or stole or purchased and used against the educated people who produced them.
Education also encouraged people to work and become dependent on money. The already educated immediately realized this was a new way of enslaving people. This was called financial slavery or political slavery. It was enforced by educated people making rules and laws that suited them and became so complicated that the common people could not understand them. The educated people then issued the ultimate law which said, “Ignorance of the law is no excuse”. Which basically means you must obey me, even if I am taking you for a ride. You are now my slave, and I can destroy you with one slash of a pen. I don’t need a sword to kill or destroy you anymore, but it’s nothing personal-its business, and it’s for your own good, and in any case you don’t understand.
Slavery is as alive today as it was in the days of the Arab slave traders raiding African villages. The sad thing about modern slavery is that it now being practised by people of your own nation and not by an enemy nation.