Reading about Raven's bases of power and thinking about how the act of surveillance changes people's perceptions of their "targets" of influence and start to consider them as less, which then justified the use of shittier strategies to assert power over them and...
You thought this was going to be about police and the surveillance state didn't you? Well it can be, but what I was actually thinking about was my career in marketing
Do you know how easy it is to dehumanize your target audience? The job is literally to make up a guy and look down on them