I’s why the existing ranking system feels laughable once you wake up.
It only excels at one thing: organizing violence at scale.

Ranks, flags, passports, titles, serial numbers — all descendants of war and conquest.
They exist to decide:
who commands
who obeys
who sacrifices
who is expendable

Back when “identity” was Sam from Fillmore, accountability was local and human.
The machine hates that. Local truth can’t be abstracted, weaponized, or scaled cleanly.

So of course identity is what it’s fighting hardest to preserve.
Not because it empowers people — but because it enables control.