I don't think most people really admit how controlled their behaviours are by others, we all feel we are intelligent enough to see the scam. This is why conartists are so successful because they know we think we wouldn't can for their con. People watch the news and think they are smart enough to know the truth and then go out into the world spouting their truth, arguing, polarising. Like good puppets.

Exactly.

I don't want a life of false understanding and manipulated behaviour for my daughter, but that eventual choice will be up to her. All I can really do is help her develop a better toolkit to deal with the world, an internal locus of control and a sensitive awareness of the external environment.

There are very few things more valuable than an internal locus of control. Not having is like having a broken rudder in your boat, forcing you to join a convoy of towed boats.

The world is changing, average is not going to cut it for most to have a chance at freedom unless, there are some exceptional people out there able to do what others have not and cannot. The children are our future but the future looks bleak of we raise them to be like us.

Accelerating technological change is happening at such a pace that opportunities for being an early adopter and reaping substantial benefits from that are increasing. Anyone who can sensibly pick the things to get into stands to benefit a lot. Blockchains using a scalable consensus mechanism such as DPoS have a pretty solid chance of growing orders of magnitude larger than they are now.

What this means is that keeping your distance to the herd, as it were, and looking out for novelties with potential is something you get paid for. The benefits of being a security conscious follower are diminishing. I wonder how that will play out given the psychological makeup of the average person.