PARAbNORMAL: Illuminating the Control

On the first day of school of my Sophomore year of high school, my Social Studies teacher had written on the chalk board: "GOVERNMENT =". Whatever Government equaled was concealed beneath a pull down movie screen. He then asked us to define government, one by one.

Poor Cassandra, who found herself not only at the top of the class with something like a 9.6 GPA, but at the top of the seating chart with her last name also beginning with "C", was up first. I don't recall what she said but I do remember thinking that this wold be a quick discussion because Cassandra will give him the right answer. That was Cassandra's job as the smartest person in our school; give the teacher the right answers before they could call on one of us who don't know the answer.

His response to her, followed by an audible gasp from our classmates was: "Wrong." Cassandra was wrong? Who the hell does this guy think he is? Does he even know who Cassandra is? Cassandra eats trilangular quadrangles for breakfast and chases it down with some pythagaring theerums. Cassandra is never wrong.

Today, it turns out, she was, along with every other student in our class. By the end of the period we had all given 30 different definitions of the word Government and all of us heard him say the word "Wrong." I don't believe that man said anything but the word "wrong" the whole class. Until he did something that would have resulted in his resignation nowadays.

He turned, just as the warning bell was sounding, signaling 2 minutes left in the period, and tugged on the movie screen just enough to make it rapidly retreat back into its spring loaded roll at the top of the chalkboard. What he had written underneath the screen, finishing the "Government =" statement were the words: "A FORM OF CONTROL." We must have sat there in complete silence for a whole minute before he said "and if you learn anything from me this year, learn this." He then wrote two words to the left of "A FORM OF CONTROL" ultimately completing the most important lesson I ever learned in High School:
GOVERNMENT, RELIGION, & THE MEDIA = A FORM OF CONTROL.

He has since passed and I hear his funeral was overflowing with former students of his paying their respects to the man that opened their eyes one September morning. In the lessons following his first most memorable class was a very well structured and intellectual representation of the founding of our Government and the history of our Country. Throughout all of the teaching this man never uttered another conspiratorial word but I remember always thinking of his first lesson while learning about things such as slavery, suffrage, and the Great Depression.

This First Lesson had occurred only a handful of years after I first read of the Illuminati. The Illuminati, as the theorists believe, is a secret organization whose members include the richest and most powerful people in the world. I had ran across the concept in my public library. The words that I was reading told me of a secret group called the "Bavarian Illuminati" that was founded by Adam Weishaupt just before the founding of our Nation. This group is believed to have formed the United States of America as it's own new nation, who will ultimately work towards becoming the sole government in control of everyone on the planet. The greatest aspect of this theory is like most conspiracies, it is possible. Probability is the important variable.

The statistics are all over the place but it is a fact that a very small percentage of the world's population controls a very large percentage of the world's wealth. That mere fact, whether or not they are overtly advancing an agenda towards one world government, proves that there is a small group that controls everything. Once you control all of the money what is left to control but the population?

To make matters more grim for the common man, there is a distinct possibility that the share of the wealth that the elite allegedly control is more than the actual wealth of the world. Wealth and money are two completely different concepts. The wealth that backs all currency is not limitless. I remember seeing a cartoon online when I was in college that attempted to explain the Federal Reserve Bank in understandable terms. The following explanation is very much inspired by what most would call socialist propaganda for it was created and published in Canada.

Imagine that you are stranded on a deserted island with 4 other survivors. The first night there you discover a treasure chest with 5 gold bars inside. You tell your fellow castaways that you will give them each a share of the wealth in the form of palm leaves which will be used in exchange for goods and services on the island. The catch is that you must pay back your 1000 palm leaves at a rate of interest of 25%. If there is only 4000 Palm leaves in circulation around the island, how will anyone have the ability to repay 5000 back to you? The mathematics simply do not allow for a scenario where every inhabitant of the island could pay you back with interest because that amount exceeds the number of actual palm leaves to begin with.

People that are indebted to you will work to pay off that debt. They may not work for you as an indentured servant but they work for others in exchange for the money to pay their debts. The easiest way to turn someone into a wage slave is to pile on large amounts of debt on their shoulders while in college. You turn out a citizen who is desperate to climb the corporate ladder in an attempt to make more money with which to pay off their schooling. Then you add the credit card that was offered to them with 0% interest the day they were moving into school and the amount of debt you can pile on an individual increases. If they have $25000 in credit card debt and $100000 in college loans they will be less likely to have time to think for themselves and notice that the candle is being burnt from both ends.