How the elites disempower, marginalize and ‘zombify’ the non-elites

APRIL 2026: Before we get to discuss the main topic, let’s do a thought experiment first (since the overall objective here is to realize how the ordinary people are disempowered, marginalized, infantilized and ‘zombified’ by the elites, and what the ordinary people can do to turn the tables on the elites and liberate themselves, so as to become empowered, enlightened, mainstream, mature and active-responsible stakeholders in society as well as controllers of their own ecosystem, their future and their ‘fate’).

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We the ordinary people crave a better world, whether or not we admit this. We need and deserve a better world, whether or not we recognize this.

 

4-POINT CURE FOR HUMANITY'S ILLS

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Mind you, the thought experiment described below is NOT what we advocate to be implemented in the real world. It’s, well, a mental exercise that proves (or at least highlights) the fundamental flaws that bedevil modern societies, which people never come to discuss in depth, often skirting them, avoiding them; or people get lost in distractions, diversions, digressions or detours, thus unwittingly perpetuating the flaws.

 

Therefore, consider this four-point cure for all of humanity's ills.

 

1) Moral objectivity. There should not be any disagreement, argument, etc, over what is good and bad. Murder, rape, stealing . . . bad. Virtues, values, principles . . . good. If there is no universal agreement on this, then there must be something wrong with us as a species on this planet.

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2) End of subjectivity. That is, a rapist, murderer, thief (or his/her lawyer) can't justify wrong deeds invoking this, that or the other precedent, interpretation, alibi, excuse, etc. Usually, either a massive or inflated ego or an evil genius lurks behind subjectivity, especially unreasonable subjectivity that has no respect for truth, which it/he/she seeks to subvert or conceal.

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In the Garden of Eden, it is said, Adam and Eve were prohibited from eating the forbidden apple, a symbol for the genesis of subjectivity. But they consumed the forbidden apple (or half-understood ‘knowledge’) anyway. Until that moment, there was no subjectivity in this world. From that moment, however, everything changed. People used subjectivity to explain, (mis)understand, (mis)interpret or justify this, that and the other. Egos and hyper-individualism ran rampant. Agreement on even simple or basic things became impossible.

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3. Good parenting. We must evolve a universal 360-degree, multi-realm (physical, biological, psychological, emotional, financial . . .) gold standard of good parenting. Society should allow only those married couples who meet the standard to beget kids. Society should create ecosystems that encourage and help married couples to meet the gold standard of good parenting. Not everyone should be free to procreate. Rather, every married couple who meet the standard should be free to become parents. That's the only way to ensure society has good people. If parents don't understand the world, institutions, systems, processes, procedures inside out, it would be impossible for them to give proper upbringing, values and direction to their kids.

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4. Extermination of baddies, bullies and their ilk. That is, identify people who display negative traits at a very young age. Just observe a bunch of kids in pre-nursery, nursery, kindergarten or primary school or at any children’s playground. You will see that some people are born wrong, in terms of psychological traits, emotional makeup and interpersonal skills. Aggression, bullying, violence . . . they are prone to that spectrum. Mercilessly, ruthlessly eliminate such abominations because they will only increase their evil deeds exponentially as they grow up. Through genes, they will also eventually perpetuate those traits through their kids. We need to recognize that both Nature and Nurture are at play/work in determining the quality of human beings. So, recognize if Nature has produced, or is producing, bad alphas, bullies, etc. Then eliminate them ASAP. Perhaps, they should be exterminated at conception/pregnancy stage itself.

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Now imagine, just imagine, a world that is the outcome of the four-point cure discussed above. Just do that thought experiment. (Mind you, we are not advocating the method to be implemented in real life.) Don’t you think a world that is the result of the four-point cure would be infinitely better? Be that as it may.

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SYNAPSES, NEUROPLASTICITY

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Science tell us that a human brain is capable of trillions of neural connections or synapses that outnumber the trillions of stars in the universe. Science also tell us that brain cells (neurons) are capable of neuroplasticity (or the brain's capacity to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections). This suggests every normal human being (every individual of the Homo sapiens species) has innate potential for brilliance, for genius.

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Then why is it that today trillions of dollars are being invested on developing AI, AGI, automation, robotics and other technologies, and not on all-round human development? Worse, big sums are invested in further zombifying the already intellectually emasculated non-elite people through a variety of means and techniques (which are discussed below). Having destroyed the 4.8-billion-year-old earth's environment in just around 200-250 years, bigger sums are now being invested in space pursuits, to make humans "a multi-planetary species".

 

Such ordinary people are being sought to be made totally dependent like parasites on the elites-controlled ecosystem through doles, freebies, handouts and the like (universal basic income, etc). Even regular jobs are now falling in this category. Total dependency is the precursor to totalitarianism, authoritarianism, tyranny, despotism, dictatorship, dystopia, what have you.

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INSIDE ECOSYSTEM

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Before we focus on the methods and means employed by the elites to disempower, marginalize, infantilise and ‘zombify’ the ordinary people, it is necessary to understand the nature and characteristics of the ecosystem in which we all live now.

 

Compared to previous generations, today’s elites are brazen in their ways and brutal and atrocious too – totally sophisticated, silent crook-like, unapologetic, sadistic, psychopathic.

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In the real world, contrary to popular concepts like “democracy”, might is right. Muscle or brute power rules -- it reigns supreme. Brute power could be physical, political, financial, intellectual (knowledge), economic, scientific or technological; it could also be linked to defense, diplomatic or psychological edge.

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Today’s elites have the perfect conditions and power to dominate, control, subdue, manipulate, enslave, impoverish, disempower, zombify and marginalize the ordinary people. The latter fall prey to the proactively predatory elites. Thus, people become victims. For, they are, in essence, suckers, conformists, ignoramuses – credulous, unsuspecting, prone to taking things at face value as they use only the primitive (reptilian) and mid (limbic) layers of their brain most of the time. The ecosystem deprives them access to the prefrontal cortex of their own brains.

 

Elites manipulate, appease, pacify or trick the false ego of each individual of the common folk. False ego is a creation of one’s self as a defense/response to systemic abuse/subjugation.

 

GLOBAL 'GAME'

 

The global game is to ensure the non-elites don't access higher faculties (neocortex/prefrontal cortex of brain). The goal is to keep the masses (a term that now includes even the educated “middle class”) anchored in their primitive or mid-brain regions their entire lifetime.

 

How is this task accomplished? Well, the elites employ various branches of science (psychology, biochemistry, neurobiology, sociology, economics, neuroscience, neuropsychology, brain chemistry, etc) in sophisticated, cunning but very effective ways.

 

At the core of their strategy is unrestrained if devious access to people’s mind or collective consciousness. This access, informed by knowledge that is misused or subverted, can prove all powerful insofar as shaping and controlling people’s perceptions and values are concerned.

 

The ability to shape, control, modify, change or even manipulate/play with others' perceptions is the biggest power on this planet -- far more powerful than nuclear bombs, artificial pandemics, manufactured viruses, etc. Hence, trillions of dollars are spent across various disciplines and fields to "impress" or impact the mind. An ad may be no longer than 10 seconds. But billions are spent to produce such short ads and their audio tracks (especially memorable/catchy jingles). Why? You now know the answer.

 

Once minds are thus remote-controlled, anything good or bad can be accomplished systematically. The overall goal of the elites, however, is two-fold: i) by marginalizing, disempowering and zombifying the ordinary people, the elites want to stop the non-elites from recognizing this unconscionable global game; ii) the elites thus want to perpetuate the game.

 

TRICKS, PLOYS, PLOTS

 

This is how the elites seek to achieve their two-fold goal:

 

Socioeconomic identity: If you are one among the billions of the ordinary people (non-elites) on this planet, your standing in society is determined (rather predetermined) by various hierarchies related to caste/class, religion, race, status or position in organizations, economic situation, bank balance, etc. Even physical attributes (like skin colour, physique, height, chest size) and social graces (etiquette, manners, language spoken, accent, clothing) have a bearing.

 

Besides, educational qualifications, which determine your position in organizations and income level, are a key factor too. This identity label stuck on you by the ecosystem through an insidious process works on your psyche and makes you accept it as a given. That’s not all.

 

It not only silently makes you recognize and accept as legitimate the associated brackets, categories or niches up and down the hierarchical ladders but also instructs you to stay put in your place and not entertain any ideas or fantasies of climbing up several rungs of the ladder or leapfrogging them altogether.

 

This is the rule to which, of course, exceptions exist. But generally, from the neuroscience perspective, your accepted lower identity gets lodged or anchored in the lower regions of your brain over a period of time, while the higher regions of your brain are ‘occupied’ by authority figures/institutions.

 

Survival mode: The ecosystem ensures your life is always hectic, marked by an air-tight lifestyle dominated by concerns like making both ends meet somehow. This leaves little time for higher pursuits like self-improvement that require regular activation and fine-tuning of prefrontal cortex (or executive command center in brain). Over a period of time, the brain ‘learns’ to accept this routine as the only way of life.

 

F&B: Foods and beverages (and substances) have a direct impact on the quality and content of your mind. The ecosystem tricks or encourages you to consume loads of rajasic and tamasic F&B and exploits your weakness for sugar, spices, pungent foods, stimulants, fat, tobacco, liquor, drugs, comfort foods, snacks, fast food, junk food, etc. You probably never read the fine print, especially information on “ingredients”, on packaging labels of F&B and substances. Take a close look next time.

 

Ask yourself how much you know about the various chemical compounds, preservatives, additives, etc, used. Besides, realize the effect of residues of pesticides, fertilizers, etc, used to grow crops. There is a neat plan working behind the scenes to ensure all the F&B (including “natural” and “organic” foods like grains, cereals, lentils, vegetables, fruits, herbs, spices) consumed will deactivate the higher regions of human brains and hyper-stimulate the lower regions instead. Heard of GM foods?

 

Sense gratifications: The ecosystem tricks and encourages you to indulge across your five senses as well as the mind. No market forces encourage you to practice moderation or eschew needless consumption. Rather, all indulgences are designed to become habits, or turn addictive. The narratives, ideologies, concepts and messages that encourage, trick or tempt you to consume and indulge often target your ego or fool your intellect. They promise one thing and not only deliver the opposite but also harm you sooner or later.

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Take consumer products as examples. A maker of anti-dandruff shampoo whose ads promise to remove sticky dandruff hypes up its colour, fragrance, texture and other features. But it is ineffective. Hair problems only increase or persist. You end up spending more and more on hair products.

 

Ditto for toothpaste and every other conceivable product, service, technology or content. Even medical products like drugs and pharmaceuticals are no exception. They don’t cure but offer only short-term relief from symptoms, making you dependent on them, almost like an addict, making repeat purchases for no real benefit.

 

Look at pricing. Price-points like Rs/$ 39.99 or tricks like “Buy 1 Get 1 free” and "Hurry/rush, offer valid only till stocks last", well, trick, insult and undermine your intellect repeatedly, thereby blunting its edge, keeping your consciousness trapped in the lower regions of the brain. Even the concepts surrounding political ideologies like democracy, Communism, socialism, theocracy, etc, are like this.

 

Discourse, narratives: Almost all the narratives and messages in the public domain, propagated through modern mass media and social media, are deliberately topsy-turvy – they create confusion and cognitive dissonance. The lead to lack of clarity and create mental fog. They invert reality, superimposing negative notions on what’s good for you, and ascribing positive notions to stuff that will harm you or destroy you one way or another. In your brain’s perceptive faculties – your mental ‘operating system’ or personal OS, if you will – they implant wrong or inverted mental models of world, people and institutions that are wrong, misleading or inaccurate. Take movies, TV serials, web series, OTT shows, fiction, etc. Almost all of them are guilty in this context.

 

Stoking of baser/prurient impulses and animal instincts: Various forces in the ecosystem are designed to stoke nonstop baser impulses, prurient thoughts or animal instincts (sex, violence, excitement, shock, outrage, hate, greed, ego) in the background of your mind (or in your subconscious mind). These forces or stimuli hyper-stimulate the lower regions of the brains, making it your default state of existence, which, over a period of time, becomes your reality. Combined with other factors discussed above (and below), this will ensure most of the ordinary people unfortunately do not get a chance at all in their entire lifetime to access their higher intellectual faculties.

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Look at high-profile cricket and other sporting events, their real-time or live on-screen versions especially. Viewers are bombarded with same ads and content promotions repeatedly, creating brain fatigue. At stadiums, spectators shell out big bucks and risk death in stampedes to endure sub-human conditions, long lines to enter stadiums, poor facilities, and to oblige TV cameras with fan-frenzy shots (herd instincts) that last no longer than a nanosecond on screen. The entire range of crowd behavior at sporting events at stadiums -- face paints, wearing team jersey, rooting for a specific team/franchise, singing anthems, displaying placards, flashing smartphone LED lights, chanting slogans -- is 'learned', in the sense that spectators, like herds, unwittingly let themselves to be used and manipulated, to meet expectations of perceived prevailing culture of group conduct. 

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Spectators and fans even take fake rivalries between teams and between players, and outcomes of 'fixed' matches and tournaments, to be real. They don't realize that sporting events are, in essence, vehicles for brands and products. That’s primary. All the rest -- the spectacle, the razzmatazz, the bombast, the razzle-dazzle -- is manufactured: secondary, tertiary or even incidental.

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A word about the excitatory commentary on TV and radio. The verbal descriptions are full of superlatives, which are used for everything these days. Contradictions, wrong statements and slip-ups are quickly covered up. The goal is to excite the mind nonstop by glorifying or exaggerating stuff, superimpose non-existent qualities on reality, distort truth, making even ordinary or banal things seem very important worthy of our nonstop attention. In doing so, the commentators seek to justify their own existence and their jobs/roles, little caring for the cumulative negative impact on the neural circuits and mental health of the audiences.

 

These days, live sports telecasts are full of ads for AI tools and large language models (LLMs), which are essentially technologies designed to discourage people from using their brains. But, the ads promote and hard-sell them as if using/embracing them is a mark of modernity, sophistication, cleverness and smartness.

 

And tips are offered on what you can do with these high-tech tools and how -- ask totally useless questions, cram your mind with trivia, shift your attention or your mind's focus to topics that don't promote your "Enlightened Self-Interest" or ESI but convert you into a zombie.
 

(In real life, real people have already started killing themselves after losing their jobs to AI. And AI data centers are said to not only guzzle unimaginably high amount of electricity but also cause a wide range of serious problems to community and environment, including increasing the temperature of neighborhoods by several degrees.) Fan Parks, where sports-lovers are encouraged to spend loads of time, energy and money to indulge in activities that numb their brain and activate their primitive versions, are promoted as a sign of development and smart lifestyle choice.

 

Psychological programming: Messaging in the public domain, especially of the subliminal kind, is deliberately designed to reinforce socioeconomic archetypes. For example, characters in a feature film and a TV serial are deliberately created to suggest the existing hierarchies, societal stratification, etc, are natural, normal, a given. Ordinary people, who are already manipulated into consuming only the superficial stuff at face value, don’t realize this subtext or fine print that is subtle.

 

A singing-and-dancing on-screen hero / heroine in Indian masala formula movies is always accompanied in the background by a hundred or so nondescript, faceless "extras". Those extras simply accept their role. Ordinary people are no different in real life. They have fallen prey to subliminal psychological programming.

 

Corrupted aspirations: The ecosystem stokes kleshas and vikaars known as Kaama (desire), Krodha (rage/anger/hate), Lobha (greed/avarice), Moha (delusion – assuming the superimposition on reality as the whole truth), Madha (recklessness, fickemindedness, carelessness, haughtiness), Matsarya (jealousy/envy) -- bad habits, addictions, ruts or grooves of negative thinking in the mind’s circuits. These shape and drive people’s aspirations, which is reflected in the mindless rat race on the global materialistic treadmill. Outcomes are harm, loss, destruction, decline or fall when aspirations are thus corrupted.

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Bad things are normalized by showing / portraying / depicting them as fashionable, normal, hep, desirable, in. Cigarette smoking,  alcohol consumption, outrageous sartorial trends, misbehavior, promiscuity, chauvinistic masculinity, bitchy femininity, irrational devotion, violence, gore . . . such things are made to look sexy on screen (films), in images, videos, what have you. On-screen bilingual cautions against tobacco, alcohol and drugs superimposed on related scenes stand exposed as ineffective, hollow, hypocritical and as attempts to dissolve guilt every time the quarterly, half-yearly and annual financial results of the companies concerned show spikes in sales revenues, net profits and share prices. Another testament to the effectiveness of the evil elites' crafty tricks to zombify the masses.

 

Piecemeal work: The ecosystem straitjackets ordinary people in roles that are akin to cogs in a big wheel. So, individuals don't realize that by performing in such roles (jobs, etc), they are essentially empowering, enriching and strengthening the evil elites; they believe they are merely trying to survive. The non-elites don’t realize that by empowering the evil elites, they are pressing a toggle switch that also disempowers them (the non-elites) simultaneously.

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For example, take the Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Healthcare or Big Insurance industry. At an individual level, a researcher/scientist, software programmer, doctor or broker hardly has a global overview of the overall operation of the company and the industry concerned. He/she just does his/her job and collects the monthly salary. Concerns like the horrible practices of the employer and the deleterious impact of their products/services on individuals, economy, society and environment/planet are not considered. Which is why, whistle-blowers are so few and far between. Employers prefer zombie-like or robot-like employees who mechanically perform jobs efficiently. Now, having replaced millions of employees with machines over the last several decades, and given the degraded new generation of zombie-like employees, the elite employers are looking at AI, robotics, automation and the like.

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Manipulative content: All the visuals, imagery, sound/music and AV techniques that are part of the public domain are designed to make an impact on the mind where the goal is usually to have a negative impact or to trick/manipulate the mind into feeling/perceiving what the content publisher wants you to feel/perceive. The mind is thus manipulated almost nonstop. Have you even wondered why there are ads/AV devices/stickers even in elevators, escalators, buses, city commuter train (metro/subway) systems, aircraft, and toilet stalls in malls, cineplexes, train stations, airport lounges, etc? The cumulative effect is devastating, especially on those who consume content recklessly, in an unsuspecting way. People lose their original thinking power due to persistent disuse of higher thinking faculties in the brain. Unfortunately, this is seldom recognized, even when the ill-effects of constant exposure to ecosystem stimuli manifest in real life. 

 

Infected intellect: Certain forces in the ecosystem control the masses via inversion of the 'God' concept (or “God particle” or God center in brain), (mis)using absolute "surrender" concept (no questions can be asked; you have to take givens in as-is state). Examples: imagery of pantheon of Gods; cognitive dissonance and double-binds in scriptures; "God works in mysterious ways" kind of descriptions of God and God's attributes and qualities; and "if you don't 'get it', then there's something wrong with you, your karma, etc – but God, scriptures are perfect, absolute, can't be wrong" type of logic.

 

In this context, it is important to realize that even the sathva guna (goodness mode or spiritual inclination of the mind) is manipulated for negative ends or monetized and sathvik qualities are ascribed to concepts and prescribed/recommended actions that are essentially anti-individual. Well, 99.99% of so-called spiritual gurus, preachers, sermon-givers, discourse-experts, YouTube/TikTok spiritual stars . . . across religions and sects are scamsters, rascals, rogues, criminals, cult heads, psychopaths, sadists, paedophiles, rapists or predators in disguise.

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Divide and rule: The elites make the non-elites implement the elite agenda by encouraging or stoking infighting and unhealthy, cutthroat competition among the non-elites. The rat race for jobs, assets, resources, status, position, perks, rewards, this, that or the other is a classic example.

 

Ecosystem changes: The elites evolve, change or transform the ecosystem to suit or strengthen them alone, without offering any real benefits to others or even by weakening others or making them vulnerable to exploitation/manipulation. The elites can afford to remain immune to ecosystem changes at an individual level; they don't have to adopt or adapt; but the non-elite individuals will run the risk of becoming redundant, irrelevant or replaceable if they don't adapt, upgrade or upskill themselves.

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​The larger ecosystem, designed, controlled, manipulated and rejigged by the elites, envelopes every aspect of ordinary people’s lives; it continuously bombards topsy-turvy, mind-numbing, intellect-corrupting or body-harming stimuli in the form of messaging, narratives, rhetoric, make-believe, content, so forth, and targets people through the five senses, mind, intellect and (false) ego. It's like a relentless 242x7 assault or war on ordinary people. The ultimate goal is to zombify the masses so they can’t even see what’s being done to them, much less take charge of their own lives.

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Now, what is it that the evil elites gain out of all this? Well, their overall goal in zombifying the non-elites is to gain and benefit at others’ expense. Example: Through rhetoric (fake nationalism, jingoism, parochialism), whipped-up emotions, lies, smear campaigns, tall or grandiose promises, demonizing of opponents, politicians can easily hyper-stimulate the primitive or lower regions of the brain and manipulate voters, so as to win elections, grab power, earn billions. If all voters are discerning and intelligent, and not zombies, politicians can never prosper and thrive. Politicians have a vested interest in keeping the masses ignorant and unconscious.

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Ditto for businesses, corporations, employers, gurus, religions, institutions --- everyone loves a zombie. An unthinking human or a human incapable of deeper, higher thinking is 'prized' in a perverse way, because a world full of zombies makes the evil elites' task easier and themselves richer, more powerful and influential. Got it?

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RELATED LINKS: What's Ecosystem? | Effing Elites | Exit Elites | Whither Democracy? | Bandwidth Badhaao | 

 

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