As days go by, our machinery of information grows heavier and more vicious, debasing reality and consensus by supplanting reason and confounding truth; divisiveness spreading through its insides, moral rot dripping from its core.

Alien to our will and subversive to our agency, this automaton of digits is steered by plunderlords in lavish rooms whose walls protect them from the splits and woes that are sown amongst us.

It is of utmost importance that we understand the role we play in feeding this abhorrent beast of data and greed, and the disastrous consequences that we will bring upon ourselves if all remains unchanged.

Awareness of our complicity is merely the first step; counteracting the machinery is our only choice.

— End of memo — easterntraveler