Plantation Earth

Imagine a world in which most of the human race is owned and controlled by robots. Imagine further that robots own and control the world’s food supply, its water supply, its energy, its defense system, its educational systems, and its economy. In other words, imagine that most of the human race is almost totally dependent on robots for their very existence. Does this sound vaguely familiar so far?

A Few are Free
Granted, there are a small percentage of humans who sit above it all, owning and controlling the robots that in turn control most of the human race. This small fraction of humans, control the robots by controlling the “programmers” who in turn feed the robots the information that their owners want the people to have.
Thus, by virtue of employing/controlling the programmers, the owners of the robots determine what the masses are allowed to see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. In other words, by controlling the programmers, who control the robots, that control the people, the robot owners can sit atop their luxurious penthouses looking down on their respective corporate plantations, with modern wage slaves working feverishly in mass produced cubicles, while they control people in ways that chess pieces have been historically controlled on a chess board.

Exiled from the Plantation
And when it comes to turning the tide on this dire situation, most wage slaves are helpless because they can’t see, they can’t hear, they can’t touch the plantation owners even if they had a mind to. And if a wage slave wakes up and rebels (thinks for himself/herself), they’re immediately exiled from the plantation on which they and their family depend for their meager livelihood.

Recognizing Imprisonment Before Breaking Out
In the 21st century this form of exile is known as unemployment. And unemployment can easily lead to homelessness and starvation, a two headed monster with whom the modern wage slave is totally unprepared to do battle. It’s much easier to avoid thinking. It’s much easier to avoid seeing. It’s much easier to avoid rocking the boat. To quote Cervantes/Don Quixote, “You must first recognize that you’re in prison before you can break out.”