99% of people AREN'T doing ANY thinking on a conscious, deliberate, or active level AT ALL times and if you think you are, you're probably deluding yourself. You're not media literate.
Where is your wound? Projecting your own reality into the outside world and using your preferred connotations to interpret what you see out there is DELUSIONAL.
There is a difference between being DENIED choice and simply not liking what is presented for you to decide upon. If the choices you make determine your character, then who are you if you make no choices except when one benefits you?