You can follow my exploration of these matters on https://paragraph.com/@pegged

You call this opinion defeatist because it doesn’t sell comfort.

There are no final victories — or final defeats.

Just in structures, incentives, and consequences that don’t care how we feel about them.

That isn’t defeatism.

It’s refusing to lie to ourselves.

You can read more on this in:

https://paragraph.com/@pegged/the-metaverse-and-the-human-condition-at-the-dawn-of-the-third-millennium

If not ... What? When a movement teaches a machine to speak for it, its message stops being an exploration and becomes a catechism.