It is the most important question, yes. Mind you, what follows is my speculation - and does not rise to the level of science, theory nor scientific hypothesis. It is a gut hunch... it must be critiqued hard and is full of flaw. Nonetheless, here is that suspicion. It is a triangulating inductive inference if you will...
Yes, of those we 'oppose', there are certainly the hapless who just think as they are told (the pretend asleep); and as well there are those who understand the method which spins their thinking and execute it loyally, but bear no understanding as to why they do it (apparatchiks or useless idiots). These two constituents constitute 99.9% of the control-minded among us. Agency exists and functions whether or not the participants know they are wallowing in it. And that principle is a useful artifice.
But there are also those in this play, I believe, who understand the why of what they do - who craft the policy. And here is the reason why I postulate this. My cat when I was a teenager was a very sensitive white longhair, with one green eye and one blue eye. These were not normal cats - they picked up on everything. This cat would sit by me in my bedroom when I watched TV (Mannix, Jeopardy, In Search Of, etc.) and she loved to be near me. Every fifth night or so, off and on, she would appear to sense something in the room with us. She would watch it, and hiss, and swipe her paw in the air - as if she was defending me. She would fixate on a spot in the room, which would move about, about human in height. Until she would become so terrified she would run out of the room, or insanely climb the walls and furniture and flee into the closet and hide, looking out to see if the 'thing' was gone. It was her fear which gave rise to my suspicion that something invisible, was indeed there.
Later in life I wrote a poem called The Eagle The Ape The Horse and The Lion
If your fear is the eagle, teach its young that there is no such thing as flying
If you fear the ape, imbue guilt into his love for the tree
If you fear the horse, establish the common sense that honor can be sought only in following
If your fear is the lion, cause it to believe that another more powerful lion is hiding in the grass:
And when you observe the condition of the eagle, the ape, the horse and the lion, know that someone is afraid.
It is clear to me that someone is afraid, both of us as humanity - our nature and/or abilities, and of some unseen virtual presence - which threatens it greatly. It seeks to exploit us in some desperate need/circumstance it possesses. It hides, it seeks control, it is reposed inside its fortress of last resort - a trapped animal. It is hissing and pawing at a virtual spot in our broad cosmology. And it will do anything, and kill anyone, and everyone - in order to protect itself. It is older than us, and it bears enmity towards us with a deep passion. Yet, it has become addicted drunkard to mutiplicity in suffering and blood, especially of that which is innocent.
A conflict which we cannot observe - which is based upon the artifice that one cannot awaken one who has been taught to pretend to be asleep.
It thrives upon religion and the artifice of human existential fear. It used to employ Abrahamism/Polytheism/Hell to accomplish this goal. But we are getting smarter - and something else had to be crafted to take the place of those religions - something which afforded them continuation of the shroud inside which they currently cloak themselves.
A New Religion - one which serves to completely neutralize any hint to their existence. A method of holding a hostage captive, without the hostage even being aware of such circumstance. Regarding all the while, their circumstance to be merely accidental. Absolutely brilliant in its offing - the blood of the innocent shed on epochal scale.
But just like an invisible toxic-radioactive alpha particle leaves a trail in an ionized gas cloud chamber... even so, their terror of SOMETHING, is what signals their presence. With each 'Pac-Man' below, the empty portion of the pie chart represents whole domains of observation they seek to obfuscate (see
The Tree of Knowledge Obfuscation). While the filled portion represents each trajectory inside their assay of imperious doctrines. In this, we find intelligence through heteroduction - in other words what they point AWAY from, is more important (informative and probative) than what they actually point 'towards' (teach).
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