Many outcomes in modern society are described as chosen. In reality, alternatives have been systematically removed.
Labor precarity is framed as flexibility. Market concentration is framed as efficiency. Policy is presented as inevitable rather than deliberate.
Consent requires meaningful options. When options disappear, consent becomes a fiction.
People are blamed for adapting to systems they did not design and cannot escape. This moral inversion protects power while shaming participation.
A society that equates survival with consent should not expect engagement. Withdrawal is often clarity, not apathy.
Choice that exists only on paper is not choice.