[We enslaved you with power/ technology/ beads and trinkets of devices you could neither build nor understand The Hawking drive would have been yours/ but the farcaster/ the fatline transmitters and receivers/ the megasphere/ the deathwand> Never Like the Sioux with rifles/ horses/ blankets/ knives/ and beads/ you accepted them/ embraced us and lost yourselves But like the white man distributing smallpox blankets/ like the slave owner on his plantation/ or in his Werkschutze Dechenschule Gusstahlfabrik/ we lost ourselves The Volatiles want to end the symbiosis by cutting out the parasite/
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