brainwashing. the cage has got stronger, closer, and less visible. if you look at the arc of the story starting with the 60s psyop through the 70s punk pushback and the 80s plastic world and the 90s cyberpunk and the 00s 9-11, the 10s was the bitcoin era and made sense in terms of 9-11 era GFC but the gen-z is in formation out of covid 20s.