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See, that is a loaded question, and depends on how you view the universe.

I view the universe as a multidimensional, at least aleph one omniverse, consisting of an infinite ladder of super-set verses, of which we are in only a single subset infinite universe.

The substrate upon which these realities exist I refer to as "the source". People have had many names for it through time, one might call it The Tao, another Brahman, another still might call it "God," (though given the nature of reality, there are tiers of these god beings, and the beings people think of "god" on this planet are merely higher-dimensional reality caretakers).

In any case, for me, I would say that source energy is "controlling" everything, as it provided the reality substrate necessary for stable/continued "being".

That source energy supersedes all reality boundaries, including creators and caretakers of universes, regardless of dimensionality.

But let's bring it back to this reality and your question. Here on Earth, I believe the laws of physics control everything. Those are the physical boundaries placed on us humans. They can't be violated by material means, and provide a tidy framework for these meat bodies to comprehend truth and structured boundaries.

Still not close enough to home? Let's talk about human invented social constraints, then.

The PEOPLE control everything. We farm the food, we build the buildings, we engineer new inventions and maintain old ones, we run the factories, we run the governments...none of this works without the people making it work. So the people are the ones actually controlling everything.

We aren't mindless machines. We can make choices. Just because most people choose to be mindless servants with the most vile humans imaginable pulling the levers does not make that reality. That is a choice, and it is a choice we can choose to stop making collectively in an instant.

One could say these vampire lords have used the laws of physics to create levers on society in the form of mass media, social media, money, etc in order to control the people. A sort of twisted nervous system (it certainly doesn't help the nerves), which they use to move the monstrous might of the people. It seems to be working right now, I will say that. So when I become overwhelmed in the frame of a single human body under the thumb of these monsters, I like to go in to my mind, a place they don't yet have access, imagine we are just on one single pale blue dot among many, in one solar system among countless, in one galaxy among innumerable, in one universe among infinite, in a reality multiverse amidst then timeless expanse of creation, all as a tiny speck of dust within a void that could, from this frame, occupy the space of a single cell in my own body. And so, I realize, I have everything within me. And I like to think from that vantage point. Suddenly, these monsters become so very small. Even my own life and death become minuscule when seen from the lens of everything. But it is just something to imagine, nothing more :)