The desire to quietly move people into a fictional bubble to "neutralize" them, of managing people without them knowing it, and keeping them busy so they don't

The desire to quietly move people into a fictional bubble to "neutralize" them, of managing people without them knowing it, and keeping them busy so they don't do something you don't want them to do. It's like having a physically unfit student demand very aggressively to be put on the football team, and instead of telling him he doesn't make the cut because you're afraid he might pull out a gun, you put some VR goggles on him and run Madden and tell him he's been accepted. (Some would call this tactic a symptom of the feminization of management.) Of course, a person in a bubble like that might actually become more radicalized. And if a person discovers he's been had by looking at, say, his friend's Reddit version, he might become angry enough to do something, angrier even than if he had just been told "no", because now he's been made a fool.