@a-non-e-moose We didn't expect this turn either. It's just what came up in writing today :)

Gilese 581g is a real, known, potentially 'habitable', planet, in the so-called "Goldilocks Zone" of a distant star system. Obviously we don't actually know what's going on there (probably).

I take your point, and we're thinking of taking the imaginative Gilese material and putting it in a separate book which invites meditation on alternative global cultures. I agree that it's probably best to keep this book, "Secret doors, Hidden Rooms", focused on deconstructing existing systems of mind-control, rather than proposing utopias just yet :) Whether this was strictly suitable for the current book is something that had been on my mind since we wrote this section; so thank you for clarifying it.