For many years, authors have included in their stories, warnings of what and how we can be exploited and turned into serfs

Here is a good example from "The Fairy Godmother" by Mercedes Lackey:

These spiders spun a cunning web, beginning as they always did by eroding conditions gradually, with rights converted to privilege, then the privilege revoked on one pretence or another, always for an excellent reason, always on a "temporary" basis, until the next "privilege" was taken and the previous grievance forgotten. Then as one hand took away, the other, the King's, would give - something trivial, but pleasurable. Games perhaps, or entertainments. Nothing controversial, of course. A competition that would elevate the winner into the ranks of the wealthy and prominent - so that the illusion was maintained that this was possible for everyone. It was as if wholesome bread was being taken, and a tastier bread made with sawdust used to replace it.

Or, perhaps the one behind the throne would start a war on some trumped-up cause - a little war, of course, against a weak but convenient enemy, one that would be difficult to lose, that would stir up patriotic fervour, one that would, of course, entail "sacrifices for the good of all and the security of the realm" under cover of which more "privileges" could be "temporarily" taken.

Clever and insidious, and damnably difficult to counter. And all the while, the spider spun his web, battening on the misery and depression, growing fat and ever more powerful

Isn't it remarkable how we are shown a truth and at first all we can see is clouded by our own fears of appearing to be 'conspiracy theorist' followers, instead of being part of the herd.


I consider all these authors a part of the process needed to wake us up to the truth, even if we think we ignored them at the time, as our subconscious was more aware than we were and it helped open us to the truth.

• posted: 17th Oct, 2020