comformity

Case by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path
to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs that may be
severe, even in a society that lacks such means of control as death
squads, psychiatric prisons, or extermination camps. The very structure
of the media is designed to induce conformity to established doctrine. In
a three-minute stretch between commercials, or in seven hundred
words, it is impossible to present unfamiliar thoughts or surprising
conclusions with the argument and evidence required to afford them
some credibility. Regurgitation of welcome pieties faces no such
problem. - chomsky