Most of us internalize the culture we’re born into without noticing its incentives or manipulations. Culture doesn’t announce itself as programming—it disguises itself as “normal.” From the earliest age, we absorb assumptions about what is valuable, what is respectable, what is safe, and what is taboo. These assumptions aren’t neutral; they’re crafted and reinforced by … Continue reading People Grow Up Inside the Matrix-Machine: Culture, Comfort, and the Quiet Death of Conscience