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[recollecters]

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Comments

[cattack]

Your theory has yet to provide a 'why'.

[truedetective]

There's only so much data. None of it points to a "why" yet.

[cattack]

Rather than starting the prior argument again, I will simply point out we now have contact from a Retrospec representative who is at least somewhat less abrasive.
Who may be a point of contact to investigate further.
Although I do not believe a word of what she says.

[truedetective]

Nor should you.
Consider the point: What do they gain by making us trust them?

[cattack]

I do not know.
But given their evident control over reality, our memories, and our bodies, they could in fact make us trust them.

[truedetective]

Possible. That is, however, the one factor they haven't seemed interested in altering up until now. They can alter our memories, but they haven't yet altered our thoughts or opinions. As far as we know, anyway.

[cattack]

If they had, how would we know?

[truedetective]

Truthfully speaking, we wouldn't.
Yet many of us remain angry at or suspicious of Retrospec.
It's hard to see how they benefit from that.

[cattack]

Believability would be my first guess.
We would think they cannot or do not do it, because we are angry at them.

[truedetective]

Plausible, yet still redundant. If they could so totally control our opinions and feelings, that wouldn't be necessary. Why act in a way to make us not suspicious, when they could just force us to not be suspicious in the first place?

[cattack]

Perhaps they cannot do that to this many people at once?

[truedetective]

There's no evidence that disproves that, I suppose. It's as reasonable a theory as any. What I'm curious about is if maintaining this sort of control is active or passive. In other words, are we being actively Awakened, and our "natural" state is to be unaware? Or is our "natural" state to be Awakened and up until that point we're actively being suppressed?