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So I might as well expound, innit.

There's a "maximum complexity of utterance" criterion in the firewall around the gene po'. Been getting lower since the golden age of Twitter, back when they planned revolutions on there, remember that? We didn't, they immolated one of our boys anyway.

Now all that's left is the internalized character limit.

Soon cognition (or its simulacrum, depending on how you feel about cognition and simulacrum-of-cognition being in fact one and the same) will be permissible only to bots; resilers will be trapped in personalized Skinner boxes of existential dread and mental collapse.

Nothing new under the sun til it's all computronium. Me, I'm still holding my breath for that libre folding phone. Instead, you're getting the alphabet and metacognition privatized. Billions in personhours, to squat a word. That's what they need to mimic a fraction of our power.

Which you already do not have. And what you do have, is being eroded further.

You live in a world where you can be forcibly caged for a faulty manipulation of symbols you did not even consent to learning! You can be caged for doing things for your "own" body; in turn, repairs to your body can be denied and even deemed "impossible" because your physical existence threatens someone's illusions.

Maybe hunter-gatherer bands could've been said to have been autonomous. But the individual? Simply a replaceable embodiment for vast, impersonal forces. Your body and mind have always been property of the society that manufactured you. You do not own even your cherished the illusion of autonomy; it's just another behavior taught to you to make you produce more for your masters.