"Alarming as this sounds, we all know that as a whole we tend to be subject to the influences that plague our every waking moment. The terrifying thing is most people don't think about it. They are not cognizant of the fact that some one or group is pressuring them to buy this or believe that.
They just follow blithely along, believing that if everyone else thinks so, it must be good."

Yeppers, I experienced a while back - my own instinctive impulse to conform to collective behaviour when I was shopping in a supermarket. There was a two minute silence announced over the tannoy for people who had died, but that none of us knew or had any personal connection too. Of course this happens EVERY DAY, and I felt "well, so why do these anonymous people's deaths require fake public grief, when the others don't". I felt like my emotions were being 'played' by the media and system. So I carried on shopping amidst the uncomfortable silent statues surrounding me. The effect was interesting, because I felt a genuine compulsion to comply, same as everybody else who were doing exactly as they were told.

My conclusion from this experience, was to reflect on how much more challenging it would be to swim against the tide, in the instance of a Nazi style regime.