Assuming that anyone reading this lacks direct experience of mankind's state following Noah's flood or the Younger-Dryas Event, we must rely on what we know about human existence: the metadata.
We know that we have the ability to observe, reason, measure, rationalize, and communicate in ways that no other beings possess. You're doing that now as you read this.
The Greeks called that ability "Logos," and St. John tells us that logos is our connection to God. (John 1:1)
Exploiting, disabling, and manipulating that ability through the applied weaponization of language - for the purposes of power and control - is the central technology used to control humanity.
Evidence of that exploitation is manifest in the systematic elimination of critical thinking skills among the masses, the misrepresentation of science and history to the "educated" classes, and the material exploitation of almost everyone that denies our being.
In other words, we are and exist in a way that is not an accident of the universe or biology. Our ability to consider our own existence is proof enough of a higher order of understanding.
Nature's mathematical precision indicates that whatever universe we believe we live in, accidents have little to do with the nature of our being (but our will is different).
The active participatory social manifestation of that being - how we interact and manage our everyday interaction with other human BEINGS - is through language.
Language is a system of communication: a set of sounds, symbols, and gestures used to convey meaning, whether spoken, written, or signed, that includes the rules and conventions for combining these elements to express ideas, emotions, and information.
Language is the connection between the logos of one human being and another, enabling the sharing of knowledge, thoughts, and experiences. It is the only method, apart from faith, that facilitates belief in ideas and events without direct experience. All history and beliefs are shared using language.
If language can be controlled, so can human beliefs and, hence, humans themselves.
As I've discussed, magic is the ability to manifest and change reality using language.
The Power Elite uses the magic of language to control and reframe human reality.
The earliest evidence of written language consists of religious beliefs, epic storytelling, and bookkeeping.
We need to look no further than these three magic technologies to understand how magicians use the power of language to control humanity. That is not to say that the application of all language is meant to control us or that all beliefs are equal or true, but without the ability to manage our consumption of ideas, to think critically, to have the ability to ask the right questions, at the right time, we are all doomed to slavery to those who control our thoughts.
Using language to instill fear or evoke desire is the most effective magic of all.
Language frames our temporal reality, balancing sin and transcendence — material exploitation and spiritual enlightenment — and language manages our relationship with those concepts. On one side of the spectrum, we are tempted by lust, greed, gluttony, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride, and on the other, we fear death, enemies, plague, pestilence, hunger, betrayal, and debt. If we cannot be controlled by language, then violence - sometimes extreme - is applied to reinforce those language-based beliefs.
Debt is a magical spell used to create an illusion of legal servitude. It is constantly reinforced at almost every level of society controlled by the Power Elite. The economics of indebtedness is a powerful command-and-control mechanism that impacts us beyond the scope of money, for it extends from our credit cards to our immortal souls.
This is not to say that any of these carrot-and-stick concepts are implicitly good or bad (as some of them surely are), but to participate in a world without the understanding of how these tools are used is slavery.
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