This continues the system of profit through control of the sheep-people by the evil shepherd "elite" but since the sheep are intellectually-cleansed from birth, it almost makes sense that they believe it.
Thus today the Divine Right of Kings which allowed our "betters" to decide how we lived has been supplanted by The Flag and the Big Eye in the Sky
which rule us from inside of our heads.
If your only option is blind obedience lest you rot in prison or burn eternally in hell, your only logical choice is saying "yes" to a Master and has nothing to do with the exercise of free will.
Symbols and rituals are a buffer meant to prevent the authenticity of experience with an elite-generated virtual facsimile that keeps us imprisoned in cubicles in The Matrix,
Because if we were able to think for ourselves and base our actions on the reality of our experience we wouldn't helplessly think that we needed "them" to define and legitimize our existence.
Once the chains of dependence are broken the chains of obedience will quickly dissolve and sovereign individual to sovereign individual
coalesces swiftly into the people's power.
"The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few by what has been appropriately termed the 'ruling class'. The ruling class has many manifestations. It can take the form of a religious orthodoxy, a monarchy, a dictatorship of the proletariat, outright fascism, or, in the case of the United States, corporate statism. In each instance the ruling class relies on academics, scholars and 'experts' to legitimize and provide moral authority for its hegemony over the masses." - Ed Crane
"The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy and second, the chronic terror among the rich lest we get one." - Edward Dowling
"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power." - Leo Tolstoy
"During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism." - Albert Campus
