Exactly!

Yeah but this is different.

You think it ever wasn’t him?

your machine

Thats what they said.

No but see also not that.

Yes but fighting back doesn’t feel real. Fighting back requires acknowledging the scope of the problem, and is really hard to do without seeing all the other problems connected to it. Its scary. Its a deep-ass rabbit hole, and most people are both conditioned and positioned to not want to fuck with that.

Its cope. Like a weird inversion of the narcissists prayer, excusing their victimizer, because fighting back doesn’t feel real, and they need to feel okay. An urge I think is cultural, because our whole thing is exploitation and grinding horror.

It is, in part; a failure of imagination.