There was this woman who loved men speaking in metaphors because she was a metaphor and she kept saying it lovingly over and over again to the man she loved: you're a ray of sunshine, you're a genius, you're a beast and I love you for it. And then she was super surprised the universe was like, THANK YOU FOR THIS REQUEST BABY. And then she was even more surprised when she had primed the system to show her metaphors. Long story short: our language is a tech. You can indeed embed hidden commands and prompts in it, even without you knowing so, because you are primed by your environment (make the inner like the outer and collapse the world). And the devastating thing? Those around you can respond to it, without their full knowledge.
Free will is an illusion.
However, that is not the end. It does not mean you cannot bend reality and find a universe to fix it: one with a different code.
Allegories! Metaphors! Codes!