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That's a feature. Permanent systemization of short term worldviews and lenses is pretty horrifying. That's how those techno-theocratic civilizations in pop culture happen.

Imagine if a company had been able to systemize the whims of a paranoid regime, allowing them to track and spy on their citizens with impunity in secret, and the population became so inured to the idea that it became an accepted facet of their culture.

Or what if a political party dominated a state and systematized a way to identify and detect oppositional thought, stamping it out before a counterculture could ever arise. Maybe that thought was tied to a particular religious, ethnic, and/or cultural group.

What if these companies are here today, selling those products to the highest (nation-state) bidders, and the methods they're employing to keep the conceptual wheels turning at scale rely on filtering that selects for candidates who will gladly jump through abstract hoops set before them, concerned only with the how and never the why of what they're doing.



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