There are certain elements of society who have deep-rooted interests in people being mired in social discord.

As long as people are pitted against each other they overlook the yoke on their backs and the reins in the hands of the master. Whether the goad is in the form of the whip or the dollar, the people are subtly and expertly controlled through their biases and base emotions. When the people eventually realize that there is no real reason to hate their brothers or to disparage their races, or covet their possessions, our shadowy overlords must invent new dissatisfactions, foment new discords, and instill new fears into the minds of the people. They have a vested interest in keeping people on edge, uneasy, disquieted and unrested. Thus burdened and concerned with the daily struggles of feeding their families, the masses are easiest to control.

Our superiors claim to love freedom and the freedom of speech and the right to assemble and all of the others. For they know that as long as the people think they have freedoms, they rarely catch on to the fact that they don't. And for the few that do figure it out and get unruly at speeches and assemblies— they just lean into the microphone, give a goofy grin, and exclaim to the world how much they "love freedom of speech", whilst the goons shuffle off the poor hapless clod who misunderstood the meaning of the term.

The only hope for the people lies in the understanding that they are not the problem. They simply are as they are made in the eyes of the maker, complete with all of their strengths and weaknesses, fears and foibles and all of their personal issues and problems. And yet despite their individual faults and frailties, they are in actuality part of the great family of man— humans, who inhabit the earth together. Together they have the collective power to overthrow their oppressors, shake off their yokes, and take back their world.

But the people are controlled by those who suck out the lifeblood from their selves, their families, their friends and neighbors, and from all of the people they share their daily lives with. They think they know what's happening because they see it on TV. Whether on CNN, MSNBC, Al-Jazeera or the BBC, the great talking heads know all, see all, and say all. They tell the people what to think, what to believe, who to like, who to hate, when to vote and who to vote for. The people think they are liberals or conservatives, red or blue or independent, for this thing or against that thing, when in reality the people have very little ability to know things for themselves and are thus forced to believe and accept the views and opinions that are prepared for them. Even with the advent of the Internet, while there are occasional glimpses of reality here and there, there are also extrordinary efforts made by those in power to shut them down, limit their effect, disperse their effectiveness, or cast doubt on their validity. All the while funneling their own versions of "The Truth" on national television for all to see— presented to them by pretty faces staring out at them, with gravitas.

The people are presented with "leaders" who are carefully prepared, propped up and vetted by those who are in control. Those who do not care if the politics are left or right, or whether states are red or blue, or about human ideals such as freedom or civil rights— those in control are only concerned with power and wealth and staying in control. And they use their extrordinary influences to control and corrupt everything in their path. They need only for the people to be consumed with their petty disagreements, so as to turn their attentions away from the realities around them. Those with the power are above the politics, out of the limelight, and in the shadows. They need simply to indicate their desires and their well-groomed politicos fall over themselves to serve it up, whilst the people bicker over the table scraps.

All around the world is raging in chaos as the people are waking up to their oppression and banding together to cry out against the injustice and the crimes of their oppressors. The people are demanding their rights and taking back their freedom— and wielding it as a sword of light, an instrument of change, and a tool to forge a new beginning for themselves. And they're holding it high as a warning to those who would control and manipulate them from the shadows. Shadow oppressors everywhere beware, the message is clear: the people are mad as hell and they are not taking it any longer.

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It is easy to dismiss these words as crazed or conspiratorial, and the reader may ardently believe that none of this is true. Instead believing that he or she is in control over his own life and master of his own destiny. The reader may believe in freedom and civil rights and that the people he elects in fact do his bidding. But for most readers, that is merely an illusion. Freedom is an elusive concept, and must be taken, wielded and exercised in order to be serviceable at all. But it must be backed by power if it is to have any effect. Without power, it is simpy an empty impotent construct, and yet even that much is comfort enough for many— nay, most, to keep them complacent. Which is exactly the effect intended by those with power. A man given a little freedom without the power to exert it is as effectively constrained as the man who is shackled with his neck under the boot of the master.

Indeed, the reader may choose to reject this premise— at his peril. But before doing so, he should ask himself whether or not the leaders he elects are really in fact working for him and doing his bidding? And if not his own bidding, then whose? And if he dares ask another, then let it be who are these leaders? Where did they come from? How is it that out of the hundreds, perhaps thousands of potentially qualified and honest candidates, only these several—perhaps two or three typically— are the only ones that are available for selection? Where are all of the others? Why is it that in an age of supposed "freedom" and "access to information" are there no more choices?

In a society that is allegedly constructed and held to be of the people, by the people and for the people, there do not seem to be very many people actually being represented at all. And more alarmingly, those in charge, along with their vassels and minions, appear to be busy looting, pillaging, and ravishing everything in sight. With large amounts of aplomb, not to mention huge clanking brass balls, they are busy stealing everything that is not nailed down and hauling it off to their lairs— their banks, their offshore accounts, their multi-million dollar mansions and luxury yachts. They know their days are numbered so they are stealing everything from the chandeliers to the silverware in a frenzied rush to grab it all and get out of town.

The irony here of course is both as sublime as it is rich...

The house is on fire and all people have to talk about is the heat.