Easier. She knows from cold experience that there's nothing easy about a voice constantly whispering in the back of your mind, wearing at your subconscious. Molding you slowly into something else, despite any attempt to resist it. It's insidious, and she doubts this implant is any different from the program's conditioning. His confidence wasn't exactly reassuring.

"That's very zen of you," is her dry reply. "Personally, I think you might be better off hearing the crickets. It's easier to notice when they stop chirping." The second you think that something like this implant can't affect you is the second you need to start worrying.