Aren’t we all just walking carbon wrappers?

Humanity’s moat is free will, yet people throw it away for a perceived feeling of safety. 

If your value can be reduced to inputs to a system designed to keep you ingratiated to it - you are a slave.

A slave in mind is as good as a slave in body in a knowledge economy.

The eternal struggle between the collective and the individual exists within a synergistic and dependent relationship. We are constantly navigating the fitness landscape; at times, the collective is at a local maximum, while at other times, the individual is. Optimizing for survival is encoded in evolution.