The revolutionary insight isn’t that “they” don’t exist. Power does concentrate, incentives do corrupt. It’s that “they” are only powerful because “we” are fragmented, because we’ve outsourced our sovereignty, because we’d rather have comfortable slaves than uncomfortable freedom.
Until we metabolize this, until we feel it in our bones that the cage is made of our own behavioral patterns, we’ll just swap one set of masters for another and call it progress.
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