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I need you to tell me more. Well, I

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still have no idea what you want to know.

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I've told you everything. Stop fucking with me,

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Yaroslav. I'm... I'm

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tied up. I have not slept in a week.

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You're hitting me with flat side of large knife.

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In what world am I fucking with you? I

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want to be quite clear. I

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do not exist. Survival

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is all there is. Survival

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is victory and victory is survival.

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But unless there's a fight, how

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can we improve the herd? Unless weakness and judgment

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and poor qualities are

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eradicated, how

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can anything improve? Make

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us make better choices, they said. Like that

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was easy. Like I could do that all

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of the time. AI,

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the quality of our data, the brilliance of

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our content, our team of psychologists, ability to

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utilize it, and our algorithm's ability to deploy

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it. Thanks to our designers, and thanks to

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the fact that we weren't naive. I know,

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I know, I know. I'm trying to be

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honest, and I realize I sound a little

12:15

ridiculous. That we combined progress with

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fun, yet the spiritual with the mechanical,

12:19

we were going to make a new

12:21

civilization that was fun, kind, amusing, and

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made people the best versions of themselves.

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In short, we were going to

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make righteousness fun and fun righteous.

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We were Ozymandias and Kublai

12:33

Khan. We were Russo, fucking

12:36

Russo, Russo and not young.

12:38

All seascapes and liberal fantasies, shadows

12:41

set free. A centrist

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dreamscape. That's what's

12:45

Hyburn wanted. I mean, he was a fascist

12:47

liberal, an extreme centrist. He believed we were

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all equal under him, and to save the

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world by fixing the people who were destroying

12:53

it. Like, that was the goal. We literally

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saw that. We saw that, and Tyrant understood

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it. He had a theory. And see, you

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know what the problem was? The

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problem was in saving the limb,

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we killed the patient. It was

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ridiculous. Tyrant was

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going to turn us from

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fractured consumers into citizens, from

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idiots into small D Democrats,

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yeah, Athenians. The only

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downside was he fell for all the

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Athenian flaws as well as its great

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promises. Magical gods, a

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populist Tyrant, nudes, and

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eventually selling garbage to sweaty tourists

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on the graveyard of dreams. Yeah,

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much as he wanted to be American,

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Mark Tyrant was just European to

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his core. Literally a

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typical European technocrat who believed

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he alone could fix society

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by regulating it. But

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who in the end was derailed by

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greed, desired above all the

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thing the Greeks were most afraid of?

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Hubris.