HOW THE ELITES CONTROL YOU — AND HOW TO ESCAPE
- Madhukar Dama
- Jun 2
- 7 min read
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🧠 INTRODUCTION: YOU ARE BEING SHAPED — NOT JUST RULED
You are told you're free.
But your thoughts are shaped.
Your choices are guided.
Your fears are planted.
And your future is borrowed — often without your knowledge.
In India, this begins in childhood:
From the uniform you wear, to the news you hear, to the medicines you take — someone else decides what enters your body and mind.
This is not just control.
This is design.
The powerful — whether they are business leaders, politicians, bureaucrats, or media owners — control not with force, but with systems.
Let’s understand how these systems work, where they came from, and how to step out of their grip — not just alone, but together.
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PART I — HOW THE SYSTEMS OF CONTROL WERE BUILT
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1. SCHOOLING AS TRAINING FOR OBEDIENCE
Modern schooling in India follows the British colonial model — built to create clerks, not thinkers.
We were taught to memorize, obey, and not ask why.
Subjects like farming, ethics, health, or self-reliance are missing.
Instead, students are prepared to be part of a job market, not a healthy society.
> 📌 Example: The Right to Education Act enforces schooling, but there is no Right to Curiosity or Right to Learn Practically.
> ✅ Escape Path: Shift to home education, community learning, or unschooling models. Teach children real skills — food, logic, language, ethics.
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2. MONEY SYSTEM: DEBT OVER DEPENDENCE
The rupee’s value is controlled by global financial systems.
Loans, EMIs, savings, pensions — everything is a game of debt and delay.
You are forced to work jobs you dislike to repay money that never truly existed in physical form.
> 📌 Example: Government borrows from World Bank and IMF. In return, they cut budgets for farming, health, and food distribution — causing more poverty.
> ✅ Escape Path: Live within means. Grow own food. Avoid EMIs. Save in land, livestock, tools — not just banks.
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3. FOOD: THE ROOT OF SLAVERY
Traditional Indian diets were seasonal, natural, and healing.
Now, rice-heavy, wheat-heavy, processed food dominates.
Why? Because the Green Revolution was not about health — it was about market control.
Junk food, seed patents, chemical farming — all make you sick, dependent, and addicted.
> 📌 Example: Nestlé and Pepsi sell snacks in rural anganwadis. Farmers are sold hybrid seeds they can’t replant.
> ✅ Escape Path: Return to native food like millets. Use heirloom seeds. Support local farmers. Cook at home.
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4. PHARMA INDUSTRY: SICKNESS IS PROFIT
In India, 70% of medical bills are paid out-of-pocket.
Most medicines don’t heal — they suppress.
Hospitals are businesses, not temples of healing.
Traditional systems like Ayurveda, Siddha, and home remedies are sidelined or mocked, even though they cost less and have fewer side effects.
> 📌 Example: WHO guidelines push vaccine programs over nutrition programs. Meanwhile, pharma ads dominate Indian news channels.
> ✅ Escape Path: Learn traditional healing. Use food, castor oil, herbs, sun, movement. Study real root causes — not just symptoms.
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5. DIGITAL TOOLS: FROM SERVICE TO SURVEILLANCE
Smartphones, UPI, Aadhaar, social media — all sold as convenience.
But everything you search, type, or buy is recorded and used.
Your preferences are shaped by algorithms. You don’t choose — you are shown.
> 📌 Example: YouTube and Facebook push paid content. WhatsApp forwards influence elections. Data from UPI is used for credit scoring.
> ✅ Escape Path: Use digital tools wisely. Limit apps. Protect data. Don’t scroll mindlessly. Teach children to be aware of manipulation.
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6. NEWS MEDIA: OWNED NARRATIVES
6 major corporations own most Indian media.
News debates are not about truth — they’re about diverting your anger.
One day it's Pakistan, next day it's Bollywood, then some random celebrity.
You’ll never hear about seed control, land loss, or why children in tribal areas are still dying from hunger.
> 📌 Example: Reliance owns Network18. Adani owns NDTV.
Both are also in business sectors they never report on critically.
> ✅ Escape Path: Follow independent journalists. Observe your own village. Think before reacting.
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7. SOCIAL PRESSURE: THE CHEAPEST POLICE FORCE
In India, society itself becomes the tool of control.
Parents push degrees. Relatives push marriage. Teachers push marks.
Not because they’re evil — but because they too were shaped by this system.
> 📌 Example: A girl who wants to become a farmer is laughed at. A boy who wants to avoid college is shamed.
> ✅ Escape Path: Question cultural norms. Be okay with being different. Find support in real communities, not just WhatsApp groups.
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PART II — ESCAPE IS NOT RUNNING AWAY. IT IS SEEING CLEARLY.
Chomsky reminds us: You can't escape systems by going into the forest. You must understand them, expose them, and build alternatives.
So don’t imagine escape as some heroic vanishing act.
It is small, grounded, real.
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✅ WHAT YOU CAN DO:
1. Reclaim Education: Learn from elders, farmers, builders, healers. Start with your own family.
2. Reclaim Food: Grow 3 vegetables. Learn how to sprout. Switch to local grains.
3. Reclaim Health: Understand what causes illness. Practice preventive living.
4. Reclaim Land: Even a rented space can grow food.
5. Reclaim Time: Make space to think. Slow down. Refuse overwork.
6. Reclaim Community: Build trust networks — barter, teach, share, heal.
7. Reclaim Truth: Say “I don’t know.” Say “I was wrong.” Say “I need to think.”
8. Reclaim Yourself: You're not a number, a label, or a job title. You're a person. Be one.
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CONCLUSION:
You are not weak. You are just distracted.
You are not trapped. You are just misinformed.
The elites don’t need prisons.
They just need to keep you busy, tired, and obedient.
And the best way to break this?
Rebuild life around truth, not convenience.
This is not rebellion.
This is sanity.
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🔴 CONCISE SUMMARY (FOR SHARING):
Elites in India control people through education, debt, processed food, media lies, medical dependency, and social pressure.
Escape doesn't mean hiding — it means understanding how these systems work and replacing them with self-reliance, community, natural health, and independent learning.
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"THEY OWN YOU, AND YOU SMILE"
A Bukowski-Style Rant on Control, Escape, and the Ugly Middle-Class Dream
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they told you
study hard
wear a tie
get a degree
then you’ll be free.
you believed them.
your father believed them.
his father begged the British for a clerk’s job
in broken english and torn chappals.
you sat in a classroom
with 60 other tired souls
copying the same goddamn line
from a blackboard
onto a notebook
with no questions,
no thoughts,
just ink stains
and the smell of sweating futures.
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they taught you history
without revolt
math without money
biology without menstruation
chemistry without poison
and morality without context.
they sold you dreams
through coaching classes
and MBA brochures
and Instagram reels
while they sent their own kids
to Swiss schools
to learn fencing and Mandarin.
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and then came the job.
oh, the holy JOB.
a cubicle grave
a badge on your chest
a ringtone for meetings
and 20 tabs open, none of them freedom.
they taxed you.
they tracked you.
they sold you data
and called it progress.
you paid EMI for the car
so you could sit in traffic
to go to an office
you hated
to afford a house
you never see in daylight
and food
you ordered from a sweaty man
on a bike
who earns in a week
what your tie costs.
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they didn’t put chains on your ankles.
they didn’t need to.
they built the chains in your mind:
— “what will people say?”
— “how will your children survive?”
— “you should get insurance”
— “don’t question the doctor”
— “this is the system”
they trained you to obey
not with sticks,
but with likes,
with guilt,
with endless comparison.
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you bought packaged milk
that came from tortured cows.
you took pills
for the side effects of other pills.
you drank water
that tasted like politics.
and still believed this was modern life.
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your body is inflamed
your soul is missing
your gut is leaking
and your goddamn phone knows
you’re about to take a shit
before you do.
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but then
there is that moment.
when your child coughs again.
when your wife looks tired for the 300th day.
when the fridge is full but you feel hungry.
when the mirror stops lying.
you feel it.
you smell it.
you taste the slavery.
and for one mad moment
you want to scream:
"FUCK THIS."
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you want to:
throw the phone
burn the degree
cancel the Netflix
grow tomatoes
make pickles
dig the earth
touch your wife's back like you used to
and laugh like a real idiot
not a reel idiot.
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but you don’t.
you have a loan.
and a cousin's wedding.
and an Amazon wishlist.
and a LinkedIn post to make.
so you swallow the scream.
you become a “realist”.
you say “it’s not that easy.”
you write “om shanti” on WhatsApp
while your nervous system is a live wire.
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they own you.
your job
your desires
your news
your kid's syllabus
your toilet paper
your fears
your Sunday.
they don’t even hide it.
they own the banks,
the food,
the vaccines,
the cures,
the elections,
and your goddamn dreams.
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and still,
you defend them.
you worship them.
you call anyone who questions it a “fool”
a “conspiracy theorist”
a “dropout”
a “naxalite”
a “sanyasi”
because deep down,
you are terrified
of what it means to be truly free.
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freedom isn’t a TED talk.
it’s a mud wall and a rain barrel.
it’s barefoot farming and home-schooling.
it’s unplugged Wi-Fi and unedited truth.
it’s getting up with the sun
and not giving a damn about
GDP, TRP, or SIP.
freedom is eating raw mangoes from your own tree
while the world burns in servers.
freedom is silence.
and you hate silence.
because it reminds you
of everything you traded
for approval.
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so here we are.
your ancestors walked barefoot across the subcontinent
faced famine, floods, and rifles.
you?
you’re afraid of unsubscribing from Prime.
you call Swiggy when you run out of sugar.
you are not the problem.
but you are the perfect product.
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LAST LINE:
and until you puke it all out —
the ambition, the comparison, the convenience —
you will remain
a well-fed, well-groomed, high-performing, debt-saddled slave
who thinks he’s the boss
because he once yelled at a waiter.
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“they own you. and you smile.”
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