"Tyrannical? Perhaps. But I will rule for the good of all, sparing no effort to engineer a New Man," said Tom, trying to change the subject.
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@MikeAnissimov It's a pun on the word "subject", in the "Tom Swifty" genre, co-opting the pre-existing trope of utopian social engineering.
@MikeAnissimov If that's signaling then I don't know what wouldn't be signaling. I had to make the joke work somehow.