This why Xi's attempt to control using an AI Panopticon is doomed.

"We feel relieved in solitude because this effort to control our image and behaviour is exhausting.

Now there’s no need to play a part, you can take off your mask and resume being the real you.

In fact, as Goffman points out, to be perpetually on stage would destroy us.

Without the choice of what to reveal to others, we would have no individuality at all.

Privacy is essential to sanity."

mass madness will ensue.

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone...

if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom;

for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. –

Arthur Schopenhauer