“And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.”
As we saw in the grand social experiment of 2020, there's a whole segment of the population that really would be fine with enslaving themselves.
This is why the the Cypherpunk Manifesto said we'll just do it whether you like it or not, because it's necessary whether you understand it or not.
To quote Solzhenitsyn
As we saw in the grand social experiment of 2020, there's a whole segment of the population that really would be fine with enslaving themselves.
This is why the the Cypherpunk Manifesto said we'll just do it whether you like it or not, because it's necessary whether you understand it or not.