Control, A Potentially Deadly Illusion

Wade Wainio
5 min readJul 23, 2021
This image has practically nothing to do with this overall piece…or does it? Really, I just grabbed an image and said “Hell with it.”

Ultimately, money isn’t even real, at least not really. Just as importantly, it is not necessarily the center of all value. That’s why people can say things like “Money can’t buy happiness.”

It’s a tool of control, and control is another thing that is ultimately sort of an illusion. That’s really the source of so many of our problems as a society. We live under a system that believes it can…

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