“Governments have programmed us to live predetermined lives”
Agree
- Education system creates obedient workers
- Media controls what we think
- Tax system forces specific choices
- Social norms are manufactured
- History shows patterns of control
Disagree
- People make their own choices
- Too conspiratorial to be real
- Governments aren't that organized
- Free will and rebellion exist
- Individual success stories prove it wrong
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