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What is modernity but a two-hundred year old experiment where the masters try to tell the other humans how they are just well-dressed machines? Soon to be replaced by the mechanical machine, then by the digital computer, then by the language model.

Of course you too, nerd-handmaiden, is a willing accomplice in this charade. Self-satisfied because it makes you feel special, above the herd, even though you are also not-special, in the grand scheme of things…? Well, no matter.



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