Only the Coercively Controlled Slave

Preposterous logic. Only the Coercively Controlled slave would fall for that troll.

Source: Pensées (114)

The shortest, sharpest formulation. Whoever falls for the troll IS the slave. This aphorism inverts the usual framing: it is not that CC creates victims passively; rather, falling for the troll is itself the mark of already being coercively controlled. The diagnosis and the condition are the same thing.

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