Instead, when things don't work, something must be wrong with us. Blame certain people and label them as the troublemakers. In other words, according to the prevailing paradigm, coming down hard on people isn't abuse. It's how we create healthy families, schools, businesses, governments, and churches, because it rids us of the sinful, ignorant, or otherwise unruly souls that muck up the social machinery. If things don't work, the solution is to take away more rights, stifle more creativity, intimidate more people, build more prisons, and bring back the death penalty.
More fear keeps people in line.
We don't realize that the paradigm is there, which means we don't recognize its role in creating our social institutions. As long as the paradigm remains hidden, we don't see what's causing system-wide suffering, which means we can't stop it. The paradigm of control and power-over. Like Diocletian, authorities of today believe that nothing would work if we each did our own thing. To have order, we must do what the authorities tell us to do.