If one can disable rational thought and manipulate behaviour on the unconscious and emotional level, they have gone a long way in controlling large segements of the global population. Already in place is a "us versus them" mentality that has separated many people from each other. Examples are one fundalmentalist religion against another or one political group against another.

Isolating a person is an excellent method of micro managing them to the point they regress to a childlike state of mind. Barriers are set up so that the fresh flow of new ideas don't get spread around and all external stimuli is shut down except for what comes from authourity figures.

If people can be held in a state of confusion, they can believe nothing of significance can be known. Once this confusion sets in peoples minds it quite often forms as suspended animation and puts people in a state of mental paralysis. At this point I wonder if a couple of examples from Orwell's "1984" could be put into place. One is that the authourities claimed that the stars were small clumps of fire a few kilometers in the sky, how many of us would be believe it? Same as if the moon and planets were said to be cameras or spotlights recording peoples doings. Also mentioned in "1984" was the Two Minute Hate. Would health care bureaucrats take advantage of this after seeing the benefits of people releasing a lot of internal rage and anger on a common enemy?

If a person is willing to do independent research, they will be able to sift the truth from the lies and half truths. Doing this requires a person to learn how to think and once this turth is known, a person is no longer able to evade responsibility. To ignore this would be comparable to living in a bureaucratic black hole.