Pets

"You should understand that people like you, are our pets.”
“Pets?”, I asked.
I must have not been hiding my emotions very well, because he said, “Don’t look so disgusted. I understand that you have been raised to believe that you have independent thoughts and decisions. It is not an easy concept to let go of. That is why, it is so effective as a management tool. Now, you know."
“The slaves are inferior, because they won’t stand up for themselves. We can do what we want, because they won’t fight back. You can say that we bred them this way, or that our messaging keeps them inhibited and divided, but they have always been this way. This is why they are slaves. They are too weak to fight back."
"I like to think of you as pets. Your people have been our pets for many thousands of years. Even before we became immortal, we were always superior to your people. For thousands of years we have kept our population separated through economy, custom, and tradition. We have applied selective breeding to your people and ourselves.”
“We created civilization. We ruled it in one way or another since it’s beginning. We created everything you have known in your lifetime, everything in your history books, everything on your television. We created your people, and everything you know. With each generation we have made it easier for your population, as we have become more adept at managing desires and expectations. You owe us everything. We have a right to take what we want.”
The more time I spend here, and talk to him, the more I feel like everything I have known about the world is a lie. I have been living in ignorance. My mind is racing with all the changes to my understanding, which I have to integrate. I began to see events in my life differently. The relationships I had were no longer what I thought they were.
I began to see how it is like a game. One where the rich people know and define the rules, which poor people are left to guess at. A game which poor people are trapped in, and do not know they are playing. The simple fact of knowing the rules of this game, give the wealthy significant advantages. To him, it is a level playing field, which anyone can succeed in. While, at the same time, it is rigged. A trap that keeps poor people away from power and self determination. They believe that people should be able to figure that out, and take advantage of it. How could they, when their whole understanding is made up of lies, manufactured to keep them ignorant, docile, and subservient.
Many people don't want to compete. They have no need or desire to do better than anyone else, and there is nothing wrong with that. A lot of people believe in equality. It has been a goal of humanity, for a long time. He can say it is a misdirection, that they created the hope for equality as an unreasonable distraction, but I know it is real to many people around the world. There have been large social movements, centered around the idea that all humans are equal in their rights. Some people believe that the move toward universal equality is the meaning of progress. These rich parasites believe that the movement toward self interest and individualism is progress. The two beliefs are opposites, which cannot be reconciled.