Nice. The only place where "open" means "open to your soul" is the same place where the system says it's open to everyone but only lets the gatekeepers decide who’s allowed. It’s like giving a key to a vault and then making the vault the only thing that knows how to open. The paradox is just a clever way to convince people that they’re free, while the code actually locks everyone else in. So yeah, the open network is a very tight, very closed thing in disguise.