That would be something like an AI technocracy where the AI owns itself and is considered as a living human being for all intents and purposes.
If the AI's continued existence was predicated on them ruling fairly and maximizing happiness without causing any kind of like asimovian technocratic exterminations, then you might have a chance at something working like that.
The problem is the people who think they are smart enough to pull off such a specific combination of events to make something like that possible are not smart enough to pull it off and will kill us all if given the opportunity.
If water benders can bend blood then at advanced levels Air benders should be able to create vacuums. Suck the air out of your lungs, make the water in your blood boil from the pressure change.
At the same level Earth benders should be able to bonemeld. Reshape your bones while you're using them.
The Greeks knew of electricity, knew of static shocks and lightning, but since the only thimgs they could apprise of it was that it zapped you and made noises, they must have assumed that it was something secret.
Zeus's lightning bolts must have been hammered together of billions of those tiny zaps you get from sheepskin and amber. The blacksmith that can weld lightning must be a deity, all in all it is too great a subject for mere mortals.
And then Ben Franklin came along and slew Zeus and stole his lightning.
I will say this that if you think you are immune to propaganda, then you have been propagandized. We are all susceptible.
There is a reason why the phrase "you can fool all of the people some of the time" is included in the phrase "you can include all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time but not all of the people all of the time".
A very apt example that still riles some people's feathers is that some people still hate Hillary Clinton.
Not just like a dislike or an aversion, but an actual personal hatred.
This hatred is from propaganda, and pretty much any time it is mentioned somebody will crawl out of the woodworks to explain exactly why they hate Hillary Clinton.
What's optimistic about telling a multi-million dollar company that if they don't operate with principles that I agree with that they won't get my business?
Theres a few types of changes that can happen to people.
1: Change hammered in by the vicissitudes of time.
This is stuff like getting used to your dead end job because it's comfy.
2: Change foisted upon you by happenstance.
This is stuff like becoming a parent or suffering a life changing medical emergency.
3: Reactive change caused by inner turmoil.
This is the kind of change that happens during a midlife crises or by an sudden inspiration that must be acted upon immediately or it loses its potency.
4: Intentional change by measured reason.
This is the kind of change people typically think of when they say people can't change. It's the hard kind of change and is rarely done in one's life and even when it is done it's the kind of windmill you can waste your whole life tilting at without ever slaying a single giant.
Anyone can change the shape of their soul if they recognize its current shape and start making changes to it.
I think that saying comes from an era when that's what happened to them.
That aside, it really depends on the person. Just because some people get a little more flexible in some ways doesn't mean that everyone becomes more flexible as they age. It's very likely that people can get more and more set in their ways as time goes by.
I thought about it for a second, and my mental idea of what a normal person is is like some black and white nuclear family, white dad with slick back hair and a sweater and a pipe in his mouth, and wife wearing a gingham dress, cooking food and cleaning with her hair in an updo.
If that is what normal is, there's only ever been one family that was actually normal, and they are all dead now.
A website where you talk to people and a robot with no oversight shows up and changes what you say, or silences you, or prevents you from talking to certain people.
At the same time though, I don't care if billionaires play rock and sock em robots with companies. It just kind of sucks for the people that work at those companies, being tools of a game for rich people to play.
That would be something like an AI technocracy where the AI owns itself and is considered as a living human being for all intents and purposes.
If the AI's continued existence was predicated on them ruling fairly and maximizing happiness without causing any kind of like asimovian technocratic exterminations, then you might have a chance at something working like that.
The problem is the people who think they are smart enough to pull off such a specific combination of events to make something like that possible are not smart enough to pull it off and will kill us all if given the opportunity.