Thank you for this. Some half of the comments on a typical caitoz Substack post are some aspirational play for private authority along the lines of "People need to obey" and "*I* could run the machine better". Rather than question how the machine runs us, they declare themselves impervious. Rather than question whether the supposed problem is actually the machine's normal function, they virtue-signal ever harder as if it had a "mind" that could be "persuaded".

I keep hoping I'll wake up to a Caitlin article titled "No, You Can't Run Totalitarianism Better: Notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix".