The position of a true elite is one of being granted license to free decision. Unlicensed free decisions are suppressed. But that *does not relieve the repressed person from responsibility* of decision, because agency is prior to context.
Agency is always ontologically prior. The sooner we all accept this axiom, the better, as it removes the yokes of fatalism upon which elites depend to maintain regimes of compliance.
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In response to this postOf course coercion is a level of the process. Outright force is another level. But modern authority depends first on *belief* in the teleology of modern progress. But the dictum “free your mind and your ass will follow” always applies. Social, cultural, political, and technological change go wither we accept they should go within our local context. Decide not to comply, and the change doesn’t happen. Decide a different route, and change happens that way. Proof is in the pudding.
As late capital descends into a dark age of cyberfeudalism, the people licensed to decide are tending toward changes which enable brute force above regimes of ideological complicity. The essence of rapid evolution in #AI lies in the desperate desire of oligarchs and their sycophants to enforce their decisions with mechanical reliability. This precisely because the limits of human discipline under ideological fatalism have probably been reached.
Consent can only be manufactured so far.
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