It's a strange world we live in...it seems everything is geared towards stripping ourselves from our own individualism and exchanging it for what the State want's us to have...and the methods they use to do that are those shiny and dazzling things we see on TV, on social media, by the thoughts/desires of our close friends/families, even perverting traditional values...everything is inverted.
Here's a song that just popped into my head that I know you'd like: