I feel the sociological effects of internal regulation, but there is a long way to go before alternative behaviors are normalized, especially in the US.

A panopticon is fine if all the prisoners are unified, not ideologically, but in terms of acceptance.

Ultimately, it boils down to a perceived notion of "us vs them" which is entirely contrived.

I can only hope that individuals might resolve their philosophical disputes along a long enough timeline that the primitive notion of individuality permeates the collective and that personal fears of "the other" are dissolved into a unified something... I don't have the words for it.