They have turned you into a world of slaves, a "farm" whereby the wealth you produce by your talents, skills, and labor is the crop they farm from you. They lead you to produce for them with false hopes, both for your future in this world and also for your future after you leave your body, your sanctuary; when you die. They lead you the way a mule is led by hanging this carrot in front of the mule. The mule pursues the carrot, but never attains it.