I mean, we all hear about people thinking what they think only because the people around them think it too. So how do you avoid doing that?

For example : Megadeaths happen with nary an eye batted in Japanese movies, but you rarely see that kind of thing in the American. And the total dominance of the aristocracy over the underclasses is as assumed and invisible as gravity in French movies, but it seems to be taboo elsewhere.

Both :
Give pleasure. Alter your consciousness. Are addictive. Are delivered via a small, portable device.

Or was Darkness just blowing smoke?