Everyone is so easily manipulated by peer pressure

This might be my neurodivergence talking (I already find people a bit alien and hard to understand) but boy do people seem like they're eager to get themselves easily manipulated by their desire to fit in.

If you're an oligarchy looking to control your population all you have to do is tell them is that everyone is doing the thing.

Oh constant surveillance and giving up your privacy? Well everyone is doing the thing so you better do it too. Oh you want to avoid having a digital footprint? Well everyone is using the thing that has built in telemetry and no way to block advertising so you better do it too. Oops we just sold your information heehee, now we know all your medical history and can use it to deny you healthcare.

Wow, looks like the app everyone uses for communication is not secure and sucks for privacy. Oh you want to use one that isn't shit? But nobody uses that.

You can bet 100% that people will eventually just accept the age verification stuff once it becomes normalised. If everyone is using the apps that need it, people will do it to fit in at any cost. It will become normalised and people won't even find it weird. Instead people will find you weird if you try to avoid it.

Everyone's stuck in a walled panopticon that the ruling class has complete control over and the worst part is the very natural human desire to not be ostracised by your peers was used to do it.

No wonder the owning class doesn't care if people hate things like AI and Windows 11. They know that if they keep telling everyone that it's what everyone is doing, that people will slurp it down gleefully after enough time has passed, especially once enough people get used to it being there.

Hell, is it a wonder they don't even bother making excuses for their wars anymore? They just tell us that the thing is happening and we will just nod and go "I guess that's normal now. I better not complain. I wouldn't want to not look normal." We might grumble for a bit, but after enough time as passed the ones who complain will just be those who can't accept that everyone is already doing the thing. That you shouldn't try to make choices and just let the tide decided by money men drag you where they want you to be dragged. Give in. Accept. Don't resist.

It's all advertising and marketing psychology and they're laughing at how easy it is to control us.