The fastest way to lose your individuality is to try to blend into the crowd. When you do what everyone else does, you fall into the trap of feeling like everything is correct.
Under social pressure, you suppress your individuality, turning into just another brick in the wall. At first, it seems like a brick in a protective fence, but it turns out to be a wall in a prison.
Sometimes, even proponents of uniqueness become a source of pressure that suppresses others into uniformity.
The gray mass is a relic of the past, and moralizing is the main tool of the past's social influence. Manipulators love to talk about "values" because playing on emotions allows them to gain control.
Losing your treasure - individuality, you lose confidence in yourself and anxiety grows. You immerse yourself deeper into the illusion of "everything is correct", while inside, the feeling of living someone else's life breaks through.
Of course, acceptance is important, but no "collective" is worth the lost individuality.
After all, it is individuality that makes us free people and gives life meaning.