Wide-spread structure of mass media organizations largely controlled and influenced by a few powerful individuals, academic leaders and government lobbies. Escalating commitment Yes. Abuse of individuality, group mentality You can see that almost everywhere, starting with children in public schools. Abuse of intimacy Church, government, and even media invading our private lives. The idiots in this world trying to rule over everyone are wasting the one and only life of everyone.
Most people surrender to conformism and social habits sooner than later.
If I don't serve higher causes, if I don't donate money to starving children, if I don't meet the expectations of my government or commit any victimless crime that is illegal by arbitrary law, I'm a bad person. Belief in eternal life or a better life after death Very inherent in our civilization. Almost everyone fails to realize that there is only one life in the here and now. Government policy is rather the approach of showing that a limited lifespan is better in economical terms, and unlimited life in this civilization is undesirable anyways. Many people still can't bear the fact of their own death and escape into mysticisms and new age cults promising mystical eternal life, while the only real solution for the public would be to recognize and accept their mortality in order to activate their natural survival pressures and concentrate on a rational scientifical solution of the problem.