What you articulate so well is how we give our power away through our own ignorance. A more kind term - avidya (from sanskrit) means ignorance of truth. We have been taught in school to be obedient to externals, to not trust our own experience. This post explains the science of 1) The Heisenberg Uncertainty principle and 2) life is a self fulfilliing prophecy.

To understand perception bias is to be empowered.https://donnabarton.medium.com/how-pursuit-can-sabotage-your-spiritual-journey-part-i-eab525b96c18