JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS

The Powers (That Be) — “The Invisibles — unfailingly protect their monied interests — and in so doing, must control the populace.

Control is an interesting illusion.

Its most important feature proves more slippery, less quantifiable-as-End Game: Predictability.

Predictability of the masses often plays nice with cousins Problem, Reaction, and Solution. Trotted out with remarkable precision by The Powers, these little guys tailgate like third-graders lockstepping to the lunchroom.