The Fiction of Ideas

Reading Blindsight was an intriguing observation of the human design. How we are more emotional than mechanical but we are indeed both. That control is some form of an illusion that we feed ourselves with. It brings up the question especially in our time the importance of control and power. Young adults dye their hair because they have the control to do so. We are told in order to achieve certain goals that self control is important. Growing up we are told of many people who control us in some way shape or form (parents, presidents, gods, etc.) If control truly is an illusion, it is an illusion we have fallen for mind body and soul as a human race. What if out of the blue everyone embraced that idea? Didn't accept the concept of someone or something controlling them? What would happen? What would the world look like if we had never accepted this illusion to begin with?