Every time a Master claps their hands...

Every time a Master claps their hands an orphan slave drops to their knees.

Just like the illusion given to some by contraception that "there's no possible way I'm going to get pregnant", the illusion of an elected government allows the Masters to make the slaves drop to their knees and be properly shafted without the dangers of the slaves conceiving and subsequently sue for child support - in this case, conceiving that the children they will in fact bear to term will too be slaves, never free, with Masters even worse than theirs.

It is somewhat like the same illusion of safety given by the family planner which allows the Masters to clap their hands and have their proxies go across the border or half way across the world and properly shaft the local slaves - and/or their whole families, who too are slaves - without any danger of getting a burning sensation from the dirty, dirty slaves.

And even when the family planner doesn't agree with the contraception method chosen, no problem, that's what the Masters' endless supply of emergency contraceptive pills is for, and the blastocyst never reaches implantation, and again no risk of child support suits.

But, as fail-safe contraception is an illusion, some of those children do get born. That's why there are a lot of little slave children around, living in squalor, who don't know who their father is.

No wonder then that they grow up and start shouting at the top of their lungs: "WHO WAS THE MASTER THAT MADE ME AN ORPHAN WITHOUT HAVING TO DIE?". The slaves that know who their parents are, feel a little less orphaned. TV-ality is their reality and all that shouting confuses them. So they seek the Masters for a comforting explanation.

The Masters then explain the real cause: "The orphans' excuse to shout is just to cover up the fact that they envy us. They too would like to be like us one day. That envy is so strong that they get headaches so pounding that they become angry and start shouting for no better reason."

"What could we do to stop the shouting." - asks a Master's dear slave.

Thus the Masters present a final or, at least, a long lasting solution: "These orphans' heads are not working the right way. Lobotomy is the answer to cure these orphans of their headaches. Let's do the right thing and cure them."

And then, when the next generation of Masters and slaves comes, all becomes a-new, for the Masters are very «forgetful» and the slaves have been lobotomized.

Quoting King Mufasa: "And so we are all connected in the great Circle of Life [...] You must take your place in the Circle of Life." *

(*) Which holds true in TV-ality.