Unlike the material world where we only have one life, on the internet you can live many lives quite easily, try out multiple paths, until one of them sticks.

When we run into issues, do we resolve them or do we merely replace them?

Are we educating people to think better or are they being taught to follow instructions?

Like let's use me as an example. I struggle with a lot of things and I would like assistance, but that means it would be better if I act the way you like, so that I become popular and have a better chance at securing aid.

If I see a post that has lots of upvotes and I think differently, that discourages me from speaking my mind, it means if I ever run into big trouble, people are less to help me.

And as we all know everyone is precarious worker under Capitalism, that means even if I'm independent now and don't need your help, what about next year? I can act tough now, but say I have a medical emergency happen in the future and I'm known to be a critic, what's going to happen?

At least what I think would happen is people would put on their smug face and say: FOFO

That's something often neglected by the Imperial Core IMO. Cultural assimilation is taken for granted and is seen as willing participation, how many of us are just clowns trying to entertain you for scraps?

I suppose we'll never find out, until our ties are severed and we become sovereign, only then our true selves can really exist.