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We believe we are sailing free, but we are moving through a strange bestiary of myths revisited. Like Narcissus, we lean over the digital mirror, captivated by a reflection that ends up swallowing us. Like Sisyphus, we carry the burden of a memory that never forgets: every piece of data is added to the rock that crushes us and never rolls back down. Like Prometheus, we offer our traces to a system that feeds on us endlessly. As in the Panopticon, we live under an invisible gaze, but worse still: we have learnt to anticipate it, becoming our own jailers.
We are not only losing data; we are losing essential dimensions of being human: the inner life that lets us think without a witness, the forgetting that makes rebirth possible, the autonomy of being oneself, the heteronomy of being many.
Digital servitude needs no chains; it imposes itself through fluidity, seduction, habit. So the real question is no longer: “do I have something to hide?”, but: “how much longer will I be able to preserve what makes me a free being?”
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