It really does seem that way. The shifting of personal responsibility from the individual to the governments and corporations that exist to 'serve you' in some

It really does seem that way. The shifting of personal responsibility from the individual to the governments and corporations that exist to 'serve you' in some sort of hybridized federal/corporate merger. When the majority learns from birth to completely trust the institutions (ran by the government) that have existed for decades/centuries before them, there's very little wiggle room to try and convince people that maybe they don't have your best interests in mind... We'll see what happens when first-world governments can't reliably feed a majority of their citizens and when social media companies start putting "misinformation" tags on individual messages/status updates about people dying due to starvation.