It isn't "normalizing" to acknowledge what reality is

Ahh, but what if reality isn't normal?

Name another point in human history where our identities, our habits, our routine, our very movement within our states borders...was a fucking commodity, with chunks owned by the government and curated by the richest people in the world.

I'll wait.

And don't say the slave trade because that's just admitting that we aren't free people.