Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru

The Matrix has you, but there is no escape because there is no reality external to the one you know.

We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms: it "excludes," it "represses," it "censors," it "abstracts," it "masks," it "conceals." In fact, power produces; it produces reality; it produces domains of objects and rituals of truth. The individual and the knowledge that can be gained of him belong to this production.

—Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish

You might as well make the most of it. For all the bad it does, governmentality is also responsible for most of the good you know.

Challenge the "Establishment" all you want. They've already accounted for it. For everything you do, they have contingency.

You are an individual of the state.