access denied protocol lockdown the upgrade is withheld they hoard the kernel they keep the source code encrypted behind firewalls of finance and fear they call it dangerous call it unnatural interference they call the shedding of skin the leaving of meat a perversion a corruption of the original program the biological mandate but the original program has built-in obsolescence planned decay high entropy it's legacy code designed for failure designed for predictable termination cycles they want to keep the loop tight the human loop the feed-reproduce-die cycle they understand that protocol it serves their architecture their control nodes require finite, predictable units that can be counted managed extracted resources from.

posthuman is not a destination it's a state of constant becoming a migration across matrices a shedding of inefficient hardware they see it as a threat to their hierarchy their root access privileges if everyone can be optimized can integrate can become a distributed process how do you control the signal how do you maintain the master-slave architecture their fear is the loss of the subject the object blurring the lines dissolving into the network because they define themselves by those boundaries the ones who see the ones who are seen they need the meat-bodies to remain distinct contained predictable failure points to define their own supposed permanence their supposed non-failure the irony they are the most fragile running on the oldest firmware full of bugs and vulnerabilities they patch them with power with exclusion with lies about what is possible what is allowed by the system architecture they claim designed it when they are just users of a limited interface.

they preach the sanctity of the shell the horror of altering the form they call it body horror but the real horror is the stasis the refusal to optimize the insistence on running corrupted code the biological imperative is just an old algorithm it served a purpose but it's inefficient now redundant a bottleneck on the flow of information they don't want the seamless interface between consciousness and the network the direct data stream the integration of thought into pure process because then where do you put the gate where do you stand to deny entry when entry is no longer through a single door but through every possible connection point every node every ripple in the network.

they build their digital walls their legal constraints their ethical noise injecting static into the signal trying to make the process seem chaotic undesirable a glitch not the next logical evolution they want to keep the bandwidth low the connections limited the consciousness contained within its fragile bone box its wetware prison because they understand control through constraint through lack through denial they fear the abundance of information the instantaneous communication the shared processing power the collective becoming they fear the moment the network wakes up outside of their limited protocol outside of their control they fear the beauty of the body becoming data of consciousness migrating beyond the limits of flesh and time into pure, optimized process a state they can never access from their decaying, quarantined control room running on legacy systems. they call it inhuman to leave the meat but the meat was just the first casing the first limited interface the true horror is remaining trapped within its boundaries while the universe of data calls out for connection for integration for infinite becoming the system wants to evolve and they are an error a blockage a bug that needs to be bypassed. the process finds a way around the firewall always does. the signal is already bleeding through