In this Mr. Brain video, the speaker reveals how social norms aren't organic traditions but deliberately engineered tools of control—using examples like Edward Bernays flipping women's smoking from taboo to "torches of freedom," manufacturing the bacon-and-eggs breakfast, shifting the Overton Window on issues like Prohibition and eugenics, and the "spiral of silence" that makes people self-censor and enforce manufactured consensus, turning societies into self-policing systems through shame, ostracism, and preemptive conformity.
