Can we ever truly escape the hidden transcript?

When I was younger I would always go around thinking, “we live by the masks that we wear.” I thought this was coincidental because this is so true. Like I would literally sit down and think about society and how it governs, molds and makes us seem as drones in our individuality. I’m not sure if that made sense but it is kind of true. In class we talked about the public transcript. This public transcript, one of my questions is where did it come from and who made it so? But besides that we all have a common knowledge or understanding of what the public transcript is. It is interesting about how this “agreement” is so much embedded in us. This performance is automatically triggered without thought or question. For example in class we know that we have to be studious and pay attention and use big words just so that we stand out amongst all other students. But what is all this for? To intimidate the other students or is it to satisfy our oppressor the professor? We masks even when we don’t have to. And it’s crazy because to a stranger we don’t have to act any way but we still condition ourselves. But at another look can we really remove the mask. And in the mask isn’t there a loss of self. In the mask how do we really know who we are? Is it only the thoughts that are trapped in out head our self? What if we lose our identity within thesemasks. Is there a true self after all or are we living in a bubble?
All of these questions run through my head but I don’t think that they can truly be answered. I do not think so because any answer will be tainted or answered through a mask. The person will condition themselves to answer in a way that they think that I will understand and agree with. To an extent that is a mask too.