Lords are nothing without peasants, but they can also never fully acknowledge the rights of peasants to existence and dignity. It’s the master servant dialectic in new clothes with all its usual trappings.

It’s of course impossible to know if it was intentional, but lets not forget - platforming the dumb drives engagement, one of the reasons our view of the world is distorted towards thinking people are worse than they are. (Don’t get me wrong, people aren’t great on average, and broadly follow the lowest common denominator trends - but especially with terminally online people, there is a huge problem with paranoia and defeatism thanks to that dynamic).