Means of social participation now equal means of behavioral modification for most people.

Evidence

6. Dependency: The free services of Google, Facebook, and others appealed to the latent needs of second-modernity individuals seeking resources for effective life in an increasingly hostile institutional environment. Once bitten, the apple was irresistible. As surveillance capitalism spread across the internet, the means of social participation become coextensive with the means of behavioral modification. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1082

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines dependency as the collapse of social participation into behavioral modification.
• XREF: Echoes the theme of engineered dependency in Parable of the Sower’s surveillance-inflected worldbuilding, and the corporate capture diagnosed throughout this book’s early chapters. — connects to: Psychology has replaced religion and ritual as society’s norm-creating force. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2466; Behavioral change succeeds more readily through replacement than prohibition — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2940; Behavior is regulated by legal, social, and self-evaluative sanctions (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Behavior is regulated by legal, social, and self-evaluative sanctions #expands (0.85)
• Behavioral change succeeds more readily through replacement than prohibition #expands (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2940
• Social pressure converts a people into a set of shared psychological traits #expands (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 219