The idea that modern day mass society and technology is somehow a rebuke of agency doesn't make a lot of sense
I don't think they were saying it as a rebuke, but as a way in which modern society makes the free will superstition less believable; also what is there to refute you assert that you can choose to escape the botnet, but how do you know? When a ball is thrown and it continues to fly through the air instead of turning around or staying still we do not attribute this to it's character but to it acting in accordance with physics. If humans do not possess some mysterious soul thing, which I have seen no compelling evidence for it's a bit hard to see where this agency and ability to "choose" would come from.
I don't think they were saying it as a rebuke, but as a way in which modern society makes the free will superstition less believable;
also what is there to refute you assert that you can choose to escape the botnet, but how do you know?
When a ball is thrown and it continues to fly through the air instead of turning around or staying still we do not attribute this to it's character but to it acting in accordance with physics.
If humans do not possess some mysterious soul thing, which I have seen no compelling evidence for it's a bit hard to see where this agency and ability to "choose" would come from.