It is all about control, this nightmare ...
Why do you stay in prison, when the door is wide open ? Because you are still asleep.
Waking up is not that difficult, there is enough information around you to make sense of this insane puzzle.
Do not think too much either. Thinking too much leads to a preoccupation with thinking, which is another type of illusion. Simply be, not as someone's slave but as a mindful person who fully understands the extent of this totalitarianism ...
"A society living by and for continuous warfare in which the ruling caste have ceased to have any real function but succeed in clinging to power through force and fraud." Orwell