Twelve years of this conditioning produces adults who cannot conceive of alternatives. The inability to imagine building roads privately, educating children at home, trading without state approval, or securing wealth outside banking systems is not evidence these things are impossible. It is evidence the indoctrination succeeded.

This rings true.

It's like we're all living in that scene of the Truman Show where the travel agency has a big poster of an airplane struck by lightning captioned "It could happen to you" to dissuade Truman from buying a ticket.
Nudge theory. With a spiked bat.