Group Think

I am reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Where she says, we are being closely watched by others - in order to control us. 

What I see, by contrast, is everyone watching everyone else - to make sure we all stay the same. Other people are not controlling us - we are. 

This is not new - it has been going on for thousands of years. Ever since large societies developed. The Greeks and the Romans knew about it - and wrote about it, at great length.