The Hidden Hand: Wealth, Power, and Control from Pharaohs to Corporations
For five millennia, a hidden architecture of power has shaped human civilization. From Sumerian temple priests binding farmers in perpetual debt to the 147 corporations controlling 40% of global wealth today, Eric Daniel Buesing exposes this unbroken lineage with forensic clarity.
Born from a 22-year odyssey triggered by a severe health crisis, The Hidden Hand: Wealth, Power, and Control from Pharaohs to Corporations reveals how elites have wielded four timeless mechanisms: coercion, alignment, conflict, and amnesia to maintain dominance across every era. This is no conspiracy theory. It is systems science dissecting power itself, with receipts.
Buesing traces the same problem-reaction-solution cycle from Egyptian famines engineered into pharaonic loyalty through Venetian banking cartels, from Rockefeller eugenics rebranded as global health initiatives to modern surveillance capitalism and digital blackmail networks. He connects Roman patrician networks to today's corporate boards, medieval guilds to contemporary think tanks, colonial trading companies to Big Tech monopolies, and intelligence honey-pot operations to elite control mechanisms spanning millennia.
More than a history, The Hidden Hand offers both warning and blueprint for resistance in our current moment of CBDCs, social credit systems, AI governance, and biometric surveillance. Its ultimate revelation is empowerment. Readers gain the cognitive armor to recognize and resist the psychological tactics and fear-driven narratives that have dominated civilizations throughout history.
In an era where understanding elite coordination is not an academic luxury but a survival necessity, The Hidden Hand serves as the Rosetta Stone for decoding dominance and the ignition key for reclaiming human agency in the 21st century. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the deep structures that shape our world and their role in reshaping it.
The hidden hand has ruled long enough. It's time to see the strings and cut them.