Refreshing to read some stuff outside the social black hole, thanks for continuing to post it, please don't stop. I have to search it out now using phone, or browser on Linux system. The browsers on my Windows pc appear to have all been broken by unstoppable cookies from many sources, all profit driven, resulting in the Medium search function, and the reply function no longer working on Medium, which combined with the recently changed "Just for you" change explicitly made by Medium, means I can't even search you out, since you are no longer offered in my feed, ever.
Thank goodness for having multiple means of access, the system can't nobble them all.
Personally I don't think it is down to any individuals controlling things, I think it might be a mistake and a distraction to be believing there are individuals behind it, it is that the profit driven system itself is a form of life, it appears to have a dark motive, and we all appear to have some capacity to become its agents, just like in the matrix.
Maybe becoming conscious of that, is all we need to do, to hack the ancient programing, which I agree completely exists.
Maybe that means something similar to what you mean by developing a mature relationship with our oversize brains.