Imagine you were totally surveilled but did not know it. Lived your life as freely as if no one were watching.

Contrast that with living your life as though totally surveilled even though no one were actually watching. Just passive data collection in which no one was interested in you particularly. Yet you were super careful just in case, made sure not to post anything controversial under your own name.

You could say the first person is naive, that it’ll come back to bite them. But the second person is already in a prison of his own construction whether the threat turns out to be real or not.

By contrast, the best way to imprison someone is to do so while encouraging him to believe he’s free. That way he never tries to escape. The one who knows he’s in prison must be held there by force.

So there are four possibilities:

1. Believe you’re free, you are free.

2. Believe you’re free, but adopt all the dogmas and limitations as instructed, become the most easily jailed.

3. Believe you’re unfree, force the jailers to expend maximum energy to keep you captive.

4. Believe you’re unfree when you are actually free, jail yourself.

The psyop pushes people to 2 (normies) and (4) paranoiacs. But you really want to toggle between 1 and 3, wherein you live your life without worry and to the extent you personally are involved in some totalitarianism (e..g, covid), you are non-compliant and therefore expensive to those foisting compliance on you.