Carrot and Stick and Freedom from this Cycle

This is nothing new but still worth repeating.

It used to be that forcing someone to obey through brute force was the primary option. Now that has become unsophisticated. So instead, incentives are used to keep those in captivity to remain captive. 

Being a captive is made to look and feel fun and trendy.

It used to be as well that captivity was overt and physical. Now it is more and more covert and psychological. You get a generation of paranoid nervous wrecks. 

But the story does not end there. 

Just as brutal suppression and physical captivity has become less and less effective, so too would psychological and subliminal coercion become a relic of the past. 

Our minds constantly evolve. They say to see is to believe and I believe in freedom because I have seen it.