It's almost as if we have lost all our rites of passage to adulthood.
The identities being shared are fewer each decade.
The better to control us with, I guess.
When our first lesson in life is 'do what you are told, or consequences', we too often begin to wait our turn to dish out our own version of consequences.
Then we take the opportunities with great relish, some of us.

Those that engineer consent don't have the benefit of us all in mind, or this wouldn't be the case so much of the time.