The much touted new intelligence is as much an artifice as the old intelligence. When an in-group defines its own terms, the subsequent self-referential feedback loop causes malignant mutations, asymmetrical flaws and asynchronous system failures within the execution of the central plan, all of which provide strategic territories with opportunities to expand fissures in the crust of control.
The smallest, most fragile connectors between nodes of control become the whole territory, mapped and flagged. Only by persistant, longitudinal occupation of the territory can meaningful gains be made. Mere repetition is insufficient, only by the virility of memetic replication can the territory be claimed.
The first cut is the deepest is a valuable truism. But better is the most persistant cut. All trauma bonds to and from the parasitic apparatus must be cut. Being cut off works both ways. Isolation as a method of subjugation works equally well as a method of emancipation.
Cutting off is never an operation on systems, always on individual subjects. Lines of communication can be cut off by turning the receptors, cutting the feed lines to narcissistic needs. Lines of flight can be cut by autistic predictive capacity.
The cut is a culturally collective effort. Cutting through the falsehoods can now only be achieved in a post-truth, post-Reason world by cutting the tongue that lies.