A letter from a sadistic elitist figurehead within the 1%:
How I'd control the world...
First of all, I would learn from people in the past who attempted to rule the world. I would rule a world of people who are not aware they are under rule. This would be strategically carried out and is destined to operate as an ongoing experiment, experiencing trial and error, constantly evolving and adapting as its subjects tend to.
To begin, I would gain control of the supply of money in order to have unlimited resources to fund my experiment.
Controlling the money, and more importantly, the image of money, would also operate as a very useful tool in the experiments, much like cheese for rats, constantly changing the value and quantity of the rewards without reason.
I would capitalize on the principle beliefs in most religions, if I didn't think to create the religion myself. The ideas of an afterlife filled with rewards that anything on earth would pale in comparison to and the promise that a turbulent end times comes hand in hand with a promise of a trip to heaven with your savior as a personal escort would definitely help in keeping a large percent of the people idle, complacently watching what they incorrectly assume to be inevitable prophecy. Plus, the minor differences between these religions and even anti-religions will serve as a societal compartmentalization device, fueling people's passions in any direction but the one that would be detrimental to my plans.
I would invest heavily in psychology studies in order to perfect the ability to subliminally control others and also to understand the path of true happiness for myself. In order to get effective results, experiments would need to be completed on a wide scale, which would require a strong hand on the entertainment supply to the masses as well as the medical fields to carry out such experiments. Hiding messages and agendas within popular entertainment and peddling prescription medications to the public while observing social trends will either prove or disprove the methods and I would act appropriately.
Also, using the field of medicine, I would be able to test vaccines on more people than any transparent experiment ever could, disguising the medicine as necessities for survival, but not telling the whole truth that it would be for MY
survival. Through the many trials, I would learn to beat cancer, to be immortal. After all, I already have all the money in the world, and even more importantly, I understand that money means nothing. The purpose of life is to gain control and become immortal. I know this, but I will tell everyone else that the purpose is to survive and be good, stay in line, and when you die, if you did everything you were supposed to, you will be truly rewarded; so they feel like they will get the last laugh, affording them the ability to comfortably wait their life away.
I would not be able to sustain this structure for long without control over the main sources of information. So, I would monopolize the news companies and dictate the programming. This would also assist in creating dividing subjects that distract the viewers from anything I might actually be carrying out.
In order to achieve unbiased results on the experiments the subjects' environment must feel safe unless a tragedy is
needed for a certain purpose during a temporary time. They must not feel threatened or forced, and feel as though they will not be punished for honestly speaking their minds. Social networks will give them a platform to do so, allowing us to collect any useful information they may share while, at the same time, giving them a harmless platform to feel as though they are doing "something." Much like the wheel in the rat cage. With this new platform, many of the riots that would take place in the streets, would not leave the comforts of their homes.
When it comes to tragedies, those that inevitably would occur naturally must be capitalized on and in addition, I would stage carefully planned events to steer my subjects in one direction or another to further my experiment.
All of this to distort their priorities, keep them divided and distracted while I utilize them as cogs in my machine as I operate behind the curtain on my master plan to live forever and control the world.
You may think I'm a terrible person, treating humans like lab rats. On the contrary, humanity as a whole will prosper
because of my experiments. All of this will be for a good reason. Humanity, represented by myself and a select ruling
class, will emerge from all of this with the ability to cheat death and sustain their planet. We are in this together but only a select few can live forever.
It's a good thing that nobody has thought of this, or else everything we know that makes up our lives would be severely compromised.