sounds like you're pretty much talking about conditioning which we all receive from nurture/nature stage (something some people think still works past the age of four or five to a big extent) , parenting (hopefully , because even though you need a license for a car , or maybe about anything in some countries) you don't even need one here in Belgium for having children.
But worst of all : schools ... the essence of a state-back school is not to learn to think but to learn behavioural patterns, and actually also thought patterns, to behave in the group as part of the group and to make sure you walk and talk in a way that's not perceived as threatening (/strange) ... so that might be all those little zombies (or artefacts?) you talk about ?