I still hope - no! Orwell's "1984" which was inspired by Zamyatin's "We'" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel), great warnings and gracefully nothing like that has been accomplished. So it is all about us - what we believe, what we are living for and how we, successful traders, are distributing our money and the knowledge about trading
I feel it was a message for you, against your ego and believes, coming from somebody who has accomplish it and was giving you a helping hand.