Who Owns You?

The treadmill of tax and debt slavery, central to the debt-money system, traps individuals and nations in relentless toil, perpetuating modern servitude orchestrated by private mega-banks.

The global banking, monetary, and economic systems operate with critical mechanisms that are never taught in schools or universities and are seldom discussed by mainstream media. Understanding these hidden aspects is vital for anyone seeking to comprehend how the economic world truly functions and why global societies are teetering on the edge of financial collapse, with most governments mired in massive debt.

Meanwhile, a small elite controlling these systems continues to exploit human productivity and natural resources for their benefit.

Central to this discussion is why governments prioritize GDP growth as a primary measure of economic success, often neglecting other critical factors like sustainability or equitable wealth distribution. The debt-money system plays an important role, manipulating the availability of credit by expanding or contracting it to serve specific interests, which often benefits those in control rather than the broader population.

This manipulation fuels the boom-bust-bailout cycle, a recurring pattern that traps nations in escalating debt, perpetuating financial instability and dependence on external bailouts.

The 2008 banking crisis in Europe serves as a well-known example, where conventional responses deepened economic woes, while Iceland’s unique approach—rejecting widespread bailouts and holding bankers accountable—demonstrated a viable alternative for recovery.

This system also ensnares individuals and nations in a relentless cycle of taxation and debt, creating a form of economic servitude that is difficult to escape. At the heart of this dynamic lies a profound truth: whoever controls the money creation process holds immense power, forming a pyramid of control that dominates global economic systems.

Ultimately, a select group of banks and asset management companies, owned by a small elite, wields disproportionate influence, effectively controlling the world’s wealth and resources.

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The relentless pursuit of GDP growth by governments is not merely a policy preference but a structural necessity rooted in the privately owned debt-money banking system, which underpins the global economy. Without continuous GDP growth, this system falters, as it relies on ever-increasing economic activity to generate sufficient tax revenue to service the interest owed to international banks. Contrary to the often-repeated claim that GDP growth is pursued to enhance societal well-being, the reality is far less altruistic.

The real reason why governments regard growth as desirable is that, with a debt-based money system, if the economy does not grow, it collapses. This is something all politicians are naturally and rightly extremely keen to avoid. Growth is an absolute imperative imposed on governments by the nature of the current money system. Therefore the drive for growth is not a choice but a mandate imposed by a debt-money system controlled by private banks.

Yet, governments rarely acknowledge this dynamic, either out of ignorance or deliberate obfuscation. They fail to admit that the need for perpetual GDP growth stems from a system where private banks create debt-based money—a process that is not only unnecessary but also detrimental to the public interest.

Historically, governments have issued debt-free money themselves, a practice that could bypass the stranglehold of private banks. Instead, the constant push for GDP growth is driven by the need to pay interest to these financial institutions, a fact politicians seldom discuss openly.

The way in which the global economic system is designed automatically ensures that the economy operates in such a way that: a. inequality is bound to increase, b. the economy is unstable, and c. the economy is blind to the limits of natural resources and the need for humanity to live in symbiosis with the rest of the natural world.

This obsession with GDP growth, tethered to the debt-money system, fuels environmental degradation, resource depletion, and social inequity. Governments prioritize growth without distinguishing between “good” growth, which could support environmental and social resilience, and “bad” growth, which accelerates ecological collapse and widens inequality.

Mainstream neoclassical economics, to which most governments subscribe, perpetuates the myth of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), suggesting that pollution rises in early economic development but declines once a certain level of wealth is achieved, as resources become available for environmental improvements.

However, this theory is a fallacy, unsupported by evidence. The EKC falsely assumes that unchecked GDP growth can magically resolve the environmental crises it exacerbates, ignoring the reality that continuous expansion in a finite world only deepens the damage.

The debt-money system, orchestrated by private banks, thrives on a precarious cycle of excessive consumerism to prevent its own collapse, manipulating the availability of credit at will to create destabilizing boom-bust-bailout cycles that render the global economic system inherently unstable.

When loans go unpaid, commercial banks risk insolvency, a scenario that unfolded across Europe during the 2008 financial crisis, epitomized by the dramatic collapse of Lehman Brothers, the fourth-largest U.S. investment bank, on September 15, 2008—a moment widely regarded as the climax of that global crisis.

Yet, the insidious mechanics of this system reveal a deeper deception: private banks, which never held the original funds to begin with, rely on borrowers as the true grantors of credit. When individuals sign a mortgage or loan—a promise to pay—they effectively create the credit, yet the banks rarely repay the borrower for this promissory note. Instead, borrowers typically repay double the loan amount through interest, while banks claim the underlying securities as abandoned, reaping profits without reciprocating equity.

In response to such crises, national governments, under immense pressure from the international banking system, step in to bail out these failing institutions. This intervention perpetuates a vicious cycle, as private banking cartels deliberately engineer boom-bust-bailout patterns by controlling credit availability, plunging nations deeper into debt.

A prominent example unfolded in Ireland in 2010, when the European Central Bank (ECB) coerced the Irish government into bailing out private banks and unsecured bondholders. In 2012, Ireland’s National Television Service, RTE, reported that the ECB warned Irish Minister for Transport and Tourism Leo Varadkar that failing to pay Anglo bondholders would trigger catastrophic consequences, with Varadkar recalling the Troika’s chilling words: “We don’t want you to default on these payments, it is your decision ultimately but a bomb will go off; and the bomb will go off in Dublin and not in Frankfurt.”

The Troika—comprising the European Commission, ECB, and International Monetary Fund—wielded its influence to ensure compliance. Further evidence of this pressure emerged in a November 2010 letter from then-ECB head Jean-Claude Trichet, which, after years of lobbying for its release, revealed that the ECB threatened to cut off emergency funding to Ireland’s banks unless the government accepted a bailout.

The 2008 global banking crisis presented a rare opportunity to rethink the foundational values of the banking and economic systems and to transition toward a more sustainable, resilient, and equitable society. Yet, this moment was squandered as governments worldwide, including Ireland’s, opted to bail out banks rather than challenge the system.

These bailouts came at a staggering cost: in Ireland, the government now pays €6 billion to €10 billion annually in interest on a national debt of €235 billion, with €85 billion of that debt directly tied to the 2008 bank bailouts. To grasp the scale, if converted to U.S. dollars and stacked as $1 bills, this debt would tower 17,760 miles high.

Such debts are effectively unpayable, and the annual interest payments alone chain the Irish people—and countless others worldwide in similar bailout scenarios—to a perpetual state of debt servitude, a modern form of economic enslavement.

The result is higher taxes, austerity measures, and the privatization of national assets, all imposed as conditions for continued credit, entrenching the power of the private banking elite while ordinary citizens bear the burden.

The boom-bust-bailout cycle, a hallmark of the debt-money system, ensnares nations in a web of perpetual debt, echoing the words of U.S. President John Adams: “There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.”

This cycle, orchestrated by the banking system, hinges on its ability to control the availability of credit—expanding or contracting debt-money loans at will to manipulate economic conditions. When credit flows freely, economies often surge, fueled by abundant loans and other factors like access to cheap energy sources such as oil. However, when banks deliberately tighten credit, the money supply shrinks, leaving insufficient funds to cover loans plus interest. This triggers foreclosures, economic contraction, and widespread financial distress, a phenomenon known as the business cycle.

As John Jopling and Roy Madron articulate in Gaian Democracies, “The fact that the necessary growth can be achieved only by increasing the total level of debt makes the economy heavily dependent on confidence… The economy therefore constantly moves between boom and bust; it is systemically unstable.”

This inherent instability is not accidental but a feature of a system designed to keep nations and their citizens tethered to debt. When economies falter, countries are forced to borrow from international banks and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which impose stringent conditions prohibiting governments from issuing their own debt-free money.

As E.H. Brown, author of The Web of Debt, explains, “The bankrupt country must borrow from international banks and the IMF, which impose a condition of debt relief that the national government may not issue its own money. If the government tries to protect its resources or its banks by nationalizing them for the benefit of its own citizens, it is branded communist, socialist or terrorist and is replaced by one that is friendlier to free enterprise.”

This predatory cycle, likened by author Bob Djurdjevic to the tactics of “Wall Street dominated New World Order terrorists,” operates with chilling precision. Djurdjevic, writing in Chronicles Journal, describes how the global financial elite colonize nations through foreign loans and investments, luring them into dependency.

Once ensnared, the plug is pulled, leaving economies gasping for survival. The IMF then steps in with bailout packages laced with austerity measures—privatization, trade liberalization, and resource seizures—that effectively hand over a nation’s wealth to the global elite, mirroring the exploitative tactics of historical empires but executed with financial finesse.

This boom-bust-bailout cycle does not merely destabilize economies; it systematically transfers power and resources to a small cadre of financial overlords, leaving nations shackled in debt and stripped of sovereignty, their citizens condemned to bear the burdens of a system engineered to perpetuate their servitude.

The boom-bust-bailout cycle begins with banks creating money as debt at low interest rates, unleashing a flood of easy credit that fuels excessive lending. Low rates and abundant credit ignite asset price bubbles, particularly in housing, as people scramble to climb the property ladder, driven by the illusion of wealth creation. Rising asset prices spur further borrowing, and governments, seduced by the influx of tax revenue, turn a blind eye to the mounting risks.

However, when the credit bubble inflates beyond sustainability, central banks intervene, raising interest rates and tightening loans, which shrinks the money supply. This triggers foreclosures, as debtors, unable to repay loans plus interest, lose their homes to banks, and asset prices, like house values, often plummet.

This contraction sets off what is grimly termed “The Death Spiral.” Defaults on loan payments surge, pushing banks toward insolvency. In response, financial and political elites orchestrate taxpayer-funded bailouts under the guise of “saving the nation.” Yet, this is a betrayal: while bank profits were privately enjoyed during the boom, their losses are now socialized, propped up by public funds.

The fallout is devastating—governments impose austerity measures, slash public spending, and raise taxes to finance these bailouts, eroding household disposable income. This, in turn, fuels more loan defaults, deepens recessions, escalates bailout costs, and perpetuates the cycle.

To cover these costs, governments often borrow more debt-money—created out of nothing—from institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), plunging nations deeper into debt. These loans come with stringent conditionalities, such as austerity measures and the forced privatization of national assets at fire-sale prices if interest payments falter.

In essence, governments mortgage the future labor and income of their citizens to bail out private banks and bondholders, chaining entire populations to a system of economic servitude.

The 2008 banking crisis in Europe and the U.S. laid bare this perverse form of socialism for the wealthy. Reckless banks, deemed “too big to fail,” were showered with vast government bailouts, rewarding their irresponsible lending and investment practices.

The justification peddled to the public was that saving these banks served the common good, but in reality, it was the working-class and middle-class taxpayers who bore the crushing burden, effectively funneling their labor and wealth to mega-wealthy bondholders and private bank owners. This massive transfer of resources from ordinary citizens to the financial elite exposes the myth that social programs primarily benefit the poor; in truth, the system prioritizes the rich under the cloak of public interest.

This cycle operates as a deliberate strategy, often described as the Problem, Reaction, Solution approach or the Hegelian Dialectic, wielded by a private banking cartel to drive nations into bankruptcy and submission.

It begins with the “problem”: governments are enticed with loans to fund infrastructure and growth, inflating economies with debt-fueled prosperity. When the inevitable slowdown hits—triggered by credit contraction orchestrated by the same banks—the “reaction” phase emerges, with pressure mounting on governments to bail out insolvent banks under threats that the economy will collapse into chaos without intervention. Enter the “solution”: international financiers, such as the IMF, swoop in as saviors, offering loans to fund the bailouts—often recycling the same money governments were already coerced into paying to banks, now laced with predatory interest rates.

Governments, desperate to stabilize their economies, accept these terms, only to find their nations ensnared in deeper debt, subject to austerity, and stripped of sovereignty as national resources and services are seized as collateral for unpaid loans.

Taxes soar to service this debt, public assets are sold off cheaply, and the nation becomes economically captured, its people condemned to labor under the yoke of a system designed to enrich a tiny elite while perpetuating a cycle of exploitation and dependency.

The 2008 banking crisis laid bare the predatory nature of the global debt-money system, exposing millions in the U.S. and Europe to the harsh reality that ordinary citizens are forced to shoulder the debts of privately owned banks. In Ireland, this betrayal was starkly evident as the government controversially guaranteed the debts of insolvent private banks, thrusting an immense financial burden onto Irish citizens without their consent.

A 2010 poll by the Irish Independent revealed that a substantial majority of the Irish public opposed bailing out bondholders, yet no national referendum was held to legitimize this decision. Public anger surged, amplified by voices like Robert Pye, a former Irish Department of Finance Analyst, who decried the injustice in his 2010 article, “We must face down the jackals who control the international banking system to save our nation and protect our children’s future.”

Pye continued, “There is considerable truth in the view that Ireland is no longer a sovereign state but an impoverished suburb of Brussels. Four million people are mired deep in a collective debt that is not of their own making… They call us PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain) because that is what you do with a pig: tie him upside down, slit his throat and drain him dry. Well, I for one reject this disgusting epithet. I also reject utterly the despicable arrogance with which this country is being treated, and the servile ineptitude of those who pose as our leaders.”

Economist Richard Douthwaite, in his 2010 article “Bailout talks: four truths Ireland can’t ignore,” underscored the dire stakes of Ireland’s negotiations with the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He warned, “If Ireland has to pay interest on the loans being negotiated at a rate which exceeds the rate at which the economy grows over the next few years, it will make the country’s situation worse, not better… The ECB bears a large share of the responsibility for the regulatory failure which led to the property bubble… There is a Plan B. Ireland doesn’t have to take anything that is offered. It can leave the euro quickly and easily… [by announcing] a new currency… and all wages, rents, debts and other payments are to be paid in harp with immediate effect.”

Douthwaite proposed that Ireland could issue its own debt-free currency to escape the ECB/IMF stranglehold, abold alternative to perpetual debt servitude, but one that has in the past led to either the death or smearing of theleader who tried or the destruction of the country and its economy through armed conflicts.

The beneficiaries of Ireland’s bailout were the bondholders profiting from taxpayer-funded bailouts were primarily privately held banks managing assets for ultra-wealthy, offshore individuals. Ireland, whose bond holders, its people, have between them a total GDP wealth of 0.207 trillion euros were being forced, against their will, to pay Anglo Irish bank’s debts to its bond holders, who between them hold 20.8 Trillion euros. The people of Ireland were paying to, and protecting the wealth and power of, people who have 100 times more wealth.

Author and blogger Charles Hugh Smith, in a November 2010 piece, urged Ireland to seize the moment to dismantle this predatory system: “When a nation such as Ireland is running a State deficit equal to 32% of GDP, austerity cannot generate the stupendous surpluses needed to make good the vast sums which are already lost… Ireland, please drive a stake through the heart of the vampire banks which have the world by the throat. By defaulting, you would be doing the world (and your own nation) an immense favor.” Yet, Ireland’s government capitulated, chaining its people to decades of debt repayment for private bank failures.

In contrast, Iceland charted a different path, offering a beacon of resistance known as the “Icelandic Solution.” Iceland allowed its private banks to fail, repudiating their debts while bolstering social security measures for the poor and indebted.

Despite pressure from the UK, which even invoked anti-terrorism legislation to coerce Iceland into honoring private bank claims, Iceland stood firm. Self-interested bankers are often desperate to avoid government debt default, and generally much prefer an economy to be strangled by debt rather than be freed of it. The Irish government guaranteed private bank debt and in doing so subjected the taxpayers of that country to decades of payments for debts that were not incurred on their behalf or for their benefit. This decision, many commentators observed, amounted to theft, taxing future generations to enrich private bankers.

By 2010, Iceland’s economy was recovering far faster than Ireland’s, proving that rejecting the demands of the global banking cartel could pave the way for a more resilient and equitable future, unshackled from the chains of debt servitude.

The treadmill of tax and debt slavery, a cornerstone of the debt-money system, ensnares individuals and nations in a relentless cycle of toil and obligation, perpetuating a form of modern servitude orchestrated by privately owned mega-banks.

When you sign a mortgage, loan, or credit card agreement, the money you borrow is conjured out of thin air by the bank—a fiction made real by your signature on the dotted line. Yet, you are bound to labor, often for years, to repay this fabricated sum plus interest, effectively surrendering your time and energy to an institution that never held the funds in the first place.

This dynamic, where banks create money as debt without tangible backing, transforms borrowers into unwitting slaves to a system designed to extract their labor for the profit of financial elites.

Governments, too, are complicit in this scheme, collecting income taxes from citizens primarily to service the massive debts owed to the international finance system—debts rooted in money created from nothing by these same banks.

Federal income tax was instituted specifically to coerce taxpayers to pay the interest due to the banks on the federal debt. If the money supply had been created by the government rather than borrowed from the banks that created it, the income tax would have been unnecessary. There is a way out of this morass. The early American colonists found it and so did Abraham Lincoln and some other national leaders: the government can take back the money-issuing power from the banks.

This is the only path to liberation and a reset of the current madness—governments could issue debt-free money, as historical precedents like Lincoln’s Greenbacks demonstrated, freeing citizens from the crushing burden of taxation to service fictitious debts.

The weight of this system extends beyond income tax to other forms of taxation, compounding the injustice. Dr. Franklin Snook, in America Needs the Divine Law, articulates the broader toll: “Between usury and taxes the consumer is really played for a sucker. God’s law permits no property tax for it is discriminatory… It discourages stability and brings about a shifting, irresponsible citizenry with no ties to the land. Under our present system, accident, sickness, or old age easily dispossesses a man of his home but in no way reduces his expense…”

Property taxes, layered atop income taxes, penalize ownership and erode stability, leaving individuals vulnerable to losing their homes in times of hardship while still facing unrelenting financial demands. This relentless extraction—through usurious interest and discriminatory taxes—forces citizens to run faster on the treadmill of debt, their labor siphoned off to enrich a financial elite while their security and sovereignty erode.

The system, far from fostering prosperity, binds entire populations to a cycle of servitude, where every step forward is claimed by the banks that hold the reins of a debt-driven world.

The power to create debt-money, concentrated in the hands of a private banking cartel, has woven a suffocating web of control over the material world, media, and politics, erecting a pyramid of dominance that subverts democracy and enslaves nations.

As U.S. President James Garfield, conveniently assassinated in 1881, presciently warned, “Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce… when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”

This chilling truth reveals that those who command the money creation process wield unparalleled influence, dictating the flow of resources, shaping corporate media narratives, and manipulating political systems, regardless of whether capitalism, socialism, or communism prevails. This control is not earned through creating value but through monopolizing the source of money itself, enabling a small elite to own and orchestrate the world’s financial machinery.

At the base of this pyramid of control toil ordinary people, navigating daily lives shaped by forces beyond their reach. Above them sit governments, granted a monopoly on force to tax and regulate populations, always without genuine consent.

The illusion of representative democracy—where new leaders are elected—masks an unchanging reality: the vast regulatory systems remain tethered to the interests of those higher up. As the 2008 banking bailouts in Europe starkly demonstrated, governments do not serve the will of their people. No referendums were held to approve the transfer of billions in public funds to private banks; instead, governments bowed to the demands of international banking corporations, betraying their citizens to rescue reckless financial institutions.

Above governments loom mega-corporations, which have amassed the world’s resources and dominated markets by securing access to cheap money—loans provided at preferential rates by mega-banks. This symbiotic relationship reveals a deeper truth: those who control the banks ultimately control the corporations. At the apex of the pyramid resides the privately owned global banking cartel, the true architects of this system.

The bankers rule the world through debt, which is money they create out of nothing. They need world government to ensure no country defaults or tries to overthrow them. As long as private bankers, instead of governments, create money the human race is doomed. These bankers and their allies have bought everything and everyone. This cartel’s grip ensures that no nation can escape without facing economic retribution, perpetuating a system where debt is a tool of subjugation.

Congressman Charles McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, exposed this reality in 1932, declaring, “Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are U.S. government institutions. They are not… they are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the U.S. for the benefit of themselves and their foreign and domestic swindlers, and rich and predatory money lenders… These twelve private credit monopolies were deceitfully foisted upon this Country by the bankers who came here from Europe and repaid us our hospitality by undermining our American institutions… The sack of the United States by the FED is the greatest crime in history.”

The Federal Reserve, like other central banks, operates not for the public good but as a private entity that usurps governmental power, manipulating economies, orchestrating crises, and making or breaking governments at will.

This pyramid of control, rooted in the ability to create money from nothing, ensures that the world’s wealth and power remain concentrated in the hands of a few, while the masses labor under the illusion of freedom, their lives dictated not by democratic choice but by the iron grip of a moneyed elite.

The web of ownership behind the world’s banks and asset management companies reveals: a tiny cadre of financial titans, operating as a self-reinforcing super-entity, holds sway over the global economy, wielding power that transcends borders, governments, and democratic accountability.

At the heart of this system lies a complex network where major shareholders of commercial banks—such as other banks, asset management firms, and trusts—are interlocked in a cycle of mutual ownership. For instance, BlackRock, a behemoth asset management company, holds significant shares in mega-banks like Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase, while those same banks, in turn, own substantial stakes in BlackRock. This incestuous web of ownership extends across a diversified array of financial entities, forming a single, dominant, privately owned financial orthodoxy—a leviathan that controls the world’s wealth under the guise of separate corporations.

A groundbreaking study conducted at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich illuminated the scale of this control, identifying a “super-entity” of just 147 tightly knit mega-corporations that command 40 percent of the global economy, with ownership entirely concentrated within this elite group.

As study author James B. Glattfelder starkly noted, “In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network.”

Predominantly financial institutions, this group includes giants like Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and The Goldman Sachs Group, underpinned by historic banking families such as the Rothschilds (linked to US Trust, owned by Bank of America), Rockefellers (tied to Citigroup), Schiffs, Morgans (connected to Morgan Stanley), and Warburgs, whose influence in private banking spans generations, as detailed in Ellen Brown’s The Web of Debt.

The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo) are among the top ten stock holders of virtually every Fortune 500 corporation. One important repository for the wealth of the global oligarchy that owns these bank holding companies is US Trust Corporation – founded in 1853 and now owned by Bank of America. A recent US Trust Corporate Director and Honorary Trustee was Walter Rothschild.

This interconnected ownership extends to asset management giants like BlackRock, which, as Ellen Brown, chair of the U.S. Public Banking Institute, observes, “has a controlling interest in all the major corporations in the S&P 500… BlackRock and the other Big 3 ETFs vote the corporations’ shares… they vote 90% of the time in favor of management.”

A 2018 review by Investigate Europe, titled “BlackRock – The Company That Owns the World,” further revealed that BlackRock undermines competition by holding shares in rival companies, with its major shareholders—Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, and others—forming a closed loop of control.

Karen Hudes, a former World Bank legal department veteran, corroborated these findings in an interview with The New American, citing the Swiss study to highlight how a small cluster of entities, primarily financial institutions and central banks, exerts massive influence over the global economy from the shadows.

Hudes warned, “What is really going on is that the world’s resources are being dominated by this group,” with these “corrupt power grabbers” also controlling the media to maintain their grip. This control extends to unelected, unaccountable institutions like the World Bank, IMF, and Federal Reserve, which dictate the flow of money worldwide.

Ellen Brown further exposes how this secrecy is maintained: “Secrecy has been maintained because the robber barons have been able to use their monopoly over money to buy up major media, educational institutions, and other outlets of public information. While Rockefeller was buying up universities, medical schools, and the Encyclopedia Britannica, Morgan bought up newspapers… By 2000, fifty corporations owned half or more of the media business… down to six corporations, with directorates interlocked with each other and with major commercial banks.”

This pyramid of control, anchored by a handful of banking families and their interlocking financial empires, ensures that the creation and flow of money—debt conjured from nothing—dictates the fate of nations, corporations, and individuals.

Far from a democratic system, this structure concentrates power in the hands of an unaccountable elite, who own not just the banks and asset management companies but, in effect, the world itself, manipulating markets, media, and governments to perpetuate their dominion while the masses toil under the illusion of freedom—and therefore they own you.

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