I think a lot of our thoughts are thought by those other participants, and we have no opportunity to be aware of them.
I come back to my very first response in which I said that this is a "fatalistic" way of seeing humans.
So, as a consequence I can give up on every perception I think I have, for I am anyway a puppet towards collectiveness. If true or not, it still leaves me with the thought: Why bother at all and when I die, I really don't care if anyone wants to have some kind of ceremony, or wake or farewell, uttered in a cultural context, which anyway cannot be tested wrong or right. It leaves me actually without anything to cope. I am so sorry to hear/say that.
It plays right into the likeness of those you probably call "overlords", who do not adhere to any rule whatsoever but claim they do, and for the best of humanity. It's what my mom called "godless".
I am unable to grasp how this follows from the idea that we aren't fully informed and independent. Rather, such perceptions as I am availed I then regard as that much more valuable because of my awareness I am incapable of perceiving so much that exists. Since so much of what exists is imperceptible to me, implications inherent in my perceptions of what I can perceive are then all I can have of the rest of what exists, and therefore gain import in my mind, not that I find my lack of perception demoralizing and discouraging.
That limitation of my capacity is what it is, and my response is to reduce my expectations of my competence commensurately, while undertaking to be as competent as is possible to me.
Oh, I can certainly relate to that and I agree, very much so, that I am aware of my limitations. I don't see anything I could say against that. I count this as self-knowledge.