I remember when I first opened Tor years ago wanting to checkout what was all the fuzz about the "deep web", and I opened that deepweb wikipedia (I'm not an initiated, I don't remember its name) and read an article about how we were living in the #Matrix and the corporations were the machines we would need to fight against. For some time, that just sounded as #Marxist propaganda to me.

However, I eventually started perceiving that every large institution develops its own mechanism of self-protection that becomes embodied by the people who work there. Reaching a point where they might sacrifice their own lives as an offering for it. Reaching a point where they might sacrifice *others'* lives as an offering for it.

The existence of institutions is not the problem. They are mostly created by well-intentioned people, but there's a bad seed that the founder might (and often will) plant there: "it needs to grow". That in itself might be responsible for governments, corporations, and even churches to become the human-fed machines we struggle against.