It'd be hard to squash long-term for that exact reason, I think! There's always going to be somebody who puts the pieces together and asks "but if Primus intended for members of the Thirteen to ask questions...", and as long as people have any access to the concept of the Thirteen/the old cults, I think someone's always going to ask that. (They could get around it by completely rewriting the entire story, I guess, but considering Cybertronian lifespans, that would take a Very Very Long Time.)
I admittedly haven't done a lot of thinking about functionism, but I've been kind of subconsciously working from the assumption that that exact problem is part of why their social control is so extreme--because it really does go against the nature of their species, and even if you manage to completely take away the Thirteen and literally everything except "Primus created everyone for one use and one function", anyone who's inclined to think about that sort of thing will eventually get to "our Species Hat is literally transformation." I mean, the obvious solution is that nobody who says that out loud ever speaks again, but it makes me think they'd probably be playing whack-a-mole with tiny rebellions pretty much all the time.
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Date: 14/5/20 01:42 (UTC)I admittedly haven't done a lot of thinking about functionism, but I've been kind of subconsciously working from the assumption that that exact problem is part of why their social control is so extreme--because it really does go against the nature of their species, and even if you manage to completely take away the Thirteen and literally everything except "Primus created everyone for one use and one function", anyone who's inclined to think about that sort of thing will eventually get to "our Species Hat is literally transformation." I mean, the obvious solution is that nobody who says that out loud ever speaks again, but it makes me think they'd probably be playing whack-a-mole with tiny rebellions pretty much all the time.