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@scribe I'm pretty sure there have been enough fictitious and real-life villain monologues about people being sheep/longing to be oppressed/etc. that an answer to, "If they're going to put someone at the top, it might as well be me," is merited.

Call it a social prosthetic. In a truly cybernetic culture (in the sense of a self-regulating system), we recognize a tendency to despotism and build artificial mouths at the top of the pyramid that consume more effectively than you ever could.