Observation
We party now in Decaying ruins of the Old Ones. Their tribes, the Gatesians and Jobsians and Xians, used language – Large Language – to tell Large Lies, until truth, and then society, and then their race were all laid waste.
We mute hominids speak silently with nuanced gestures, grimaces and grins, our faces and bodies are our voice. Deception falters in a twitch or blink, trust is fierce and final.
The masks allow us our deceptions, paraded not as truth nor lies, to be visible to all.