Ayn Rand wrote about what she termed "the sanction of the victim", which is how humans can be led by the nose to participate in their own enslavement and immolation.
That was really the theme behind Atlas Shrugged. And she, of course, was expert in Marxist mind-control tricks such as guilt, distraction, etc. having lived under early Communist rule in Russia before escaping it.
It is POSSIBLE (not easy) for individuals to withdraw their sanction. But it is tricky, because mental constructs like guilt, "patriotism", "love", shame, responsibility, "social contract" etc. are reinforced into us in Pavlovian fashion from the time we are infants. Then these are linked to mental abstractions like "Democracy", "Capitalism", "God", "Social Contract (good citizen), war, bravery, etc.
Then they have you by the balls. Well, actually, you have YOURSELF ... by the head. Because to go against "democracy", "honor", and "Social Contract" has been made tantamount, via a series of conditioning and complex equivalents, to going against your identity. And who would you be without your identity and "your" values? Wouldn't that make you "bad", cowardly, ungrateful, selfish, etc?
At the end, WORDS WHICH YOU CANNOT PRECISELY DEFINE AND CAREFULLY INSPECT are loaded guns which are held to your head. The brilliance of Marxist practice is that it gets each "citizen" to hold the gun to their OWN head ... and, then, pull the trigger on command.
Marxism IS Democracy and Democracy IS Marxism...taken to its logical conclusion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRq5LOyxKLw
-Kenny Loggins, Pathway to Glory:
"Beware, oh Brother beware, don't you listen to the words...They're telling you lies."
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