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We can extrapolate from Foucault's Discipline & Punish the control systems which closely resemble the punishment systems. The Black Iron Prison is a kind of Panopticon, locking the mind into its systems. The information is the data of these systems.

The Empire simply metastasized with its higher tech systems.

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Culture in it's own right can be viewed as tool and the secular turn around the 1500's towards practical tools ultimately birthed

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Absolutely. Many believe the arts are downstream of politrix, and historically that does appear to be the case, even prior to the Medici patrons.

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...ultimately birthed Technocracy.

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Black Iron Technocracy

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