[Book excerpt]
You were told you were free, but you are a slave.
You were told you had a choice.
You were told your vote, your job, your phone, your freedom—all mattered.
But what if the world you know is a curated illusion?
In this book, we dismantle the polished surface of modern life to reveal the quiet machinery beneath it—run by global elites, shielded by complexity, and sustained by your obedience.
With brutal clarity, readers are offered not just a critique, but a guide to awakening: how to spot the systems of control, how to reclaim agency, and how to live eyes-open in a world built to keep you blind.
You don’t need shackles when the prison is digital. You don’t need walls when the world outside your screen barely exists to you. You wake up tired, scroll past headlines you didn’t write, and go to a job where your time is traded for scraps. Meanwhile, the ones who shape your reality own no borders, obey no law but profit, and sleep just fine.
The first step is to understand who owns you and how.
Understanding Your Owners
• They never fall victim to the traps they design for you—everything is about money and control.
• They don’t care about politics, politicians, or parties—because they own them all.
• They don’t eat cheap food—they consume only the best, organic, and privately sourced.
• They travel privately, without lines, scans, or restrictions.
• They remain hidden, never part of the media circus—they own the circus.
• Governments are just the ringmasters. You? You’re the clown in their show.
• They orchestrate global change not through politics, but through corporations and powerful business alliances.
• Real opposition vanishes. Unexplained suicides and disappearances? No one asks for more than a headline.
• Society is pacified—addicted, distracted, and sedated.
• Their goal is simple: keep wealth and power for themselves and keep the rest of us away from it.
• They control what you learn, what you believe, and what you think is true.
• Their tools: religion, war, repression, entertainment, education, fear, and false hope.
• Even millionaires can be irrelevant—if they’re not born into the bloodlines of control.
• As George Carlin said: “It’s a big club—and you ain’t in it.”
There is only one way to win.
This book is not here to comfort you but to help you see the light and to navigate a safer way forward.
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
~Ray Bradbury
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So few people are awake. This is not “woke,” but awake—an awareness of the truths beneath the illusions that saturate our daily lives. Let’s face it: we don’t even know what our own government says, let alone anything else.
All past knowledge has been concealed from us. The Vatican Archives hold vast stores of information from the past, locked away from public view. Even scholars with permission are granted only limited access. We don’t know the full extent of what’s hidden. Are there answers to questions about earlier civilizations that came before us, buried in those forbidden vaults?
You have to ask yourself: Why have the rich and powerful been building bunkers for themselves? We’re not talking about new-money billionaires, but ancient wealth-families with power and resources that make even someone like Elon Musk seem modest by comparison. These are people whose fortunes and influence have been compounded over generations, quietly shaping the world from the shadows.
You Are Irrelevant
The elitist mindset is that they are ordained, and everyone else is irrelevant—slaves of the modern era. That’s you and me. Throughout history, there have always been class divisions: those with, and those without, who are ultimately dependent on those with.
Even in feudal times, peasants had nothing. There were three estates of the realm: the nobility, the clergy, and those who lived off their labour, most directly the peasantry, which was bound by a system of manorialism.
Lords and the wealthy owned the land. One way or another, you paid for the privilege of living there, and the lord had ownership over you and your family, often even your daughters. There was nothing you could do about it. If you tried, you were destroyed.
So, Who Represents You?
Ask yourself: if the government represents you, why do we know nothing of what they know? The Epstein files, the truth behind JFK’s assassination, UFOs—just to name a few. We do not know what the CIA does, nor the countless clandestine subdivisions that answer to nobody, not even the president.
Worse still, the government doesn’t even know the full reach of its own underbelly. Agencies within agencies, covertly funded, off the books, answering to unknown masters. That’s real power—not the figurehead, but the hidden hand.
Why did George Soros fund everything in the U.S. that seemed to unravel the fabric of the old civilization? From open borders to extremely progressive judges, his reach was vast, and still is. Because, in this worldview, few people are worthy of being saved.
Let me explain.
As it now exists, the system is rotted with functionally useless populations and corrupted organizations leeching off society without end, and all politicians are only trying to apply quick fixes to the systemic bleeding while losing none of the accumulated perks they have obtained through decades of employment. Let’s face it, Congress was never meant to be a retirement home for externally compensated supposed representatives of the people. In fact, the term ‘public servant’ implies a minimal salary and full representation of the needs of the public and not of special interest groups and lobbyists. But that is the system we have had for decades. And we wonder why America struggles to shine.
The only way to deal with the systemic rot is to tear it all down, purge those who do not serve us, and institute a strict new policy of term limits, harsh accountability, and full transparency. Of course, that is expecting too much in this age of corruption, lies, and deceit.
Instead, they—the real owners of the country— want to create a system of extreme conflict, where the confused masses fight amongst themselves for a political side they have been convinced to be true, to allow the system to ‘protect them’ even though Constitutional liberties are eroded in the process, and ultimately to become reliant on a savior—government— to control them.
Believe it or not, studies have been done that show a basic human need to be controlled. For a majority of the population. We will cover that later on.
About the Author
Adrian Voss is an author and essayist from Innsbruck, Austria, whose writing explores the quiet collapse of the old world beneath the weight of modern distraction and globalist control.
Through fiction and cultural commentary, Voss dissects the patterns behind rising elitism, the erosion of tradition, and the ways in which media, technology, and consumerism keep people detached from deeper truths.
THE MODERN SLAVE HANDBOOK: Your Guide to Understanding Your Global Elitist Owners by Adrian Voss is available in print and e-book editions. ISBN: 979-8988973737
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