Society is to blame for not holding the government accountable. Society is to blame for not holding corporations accountable. Society is allowing these governm

Society is to blame for not holding the government accountable. Society is to blame for not holding corporations accountable. Society is allowing these governments and corporations to pillage our worth as people, as individuals, as contributors to the planet. The never-ending pacification of society through extremely obvious marketing and propaganda, fed through social media, filter bubbles, and ostracization of peers based on their personal opinions and beliefs. Marketing to convince us that yes - you do want your manufacturing jobs outsourced to third-world countries because that means cheaper widgets for you! Don't worry about the high chance that slave labor is being used to put together your iPhones, your shoes, etc. while these companies slowly increase their prices because now your phone can talk to satellites and totally not because they want to increase profit margins! Don't think about how your electric car batteries had their lithium mined by children who slave away in tailing ponds while the western world likes to pretend they're better than everyone else. Propaganda in media (print, social media, TV) to convince us that the government wants only the best for you, that the economy is failing "and here's why that's a good thing!", that our society needs to import more and more immigrants who are more than happy to come over due to the huge disparity of living standards compared to their own country - who are happy to work for minimum wage and keep their mouth shut or they get sent back to their country before their citizenship gets approved - who are happy to live in basements hastily converted to rental space in exchange for most of their paycheck - instead of actually encouraging higher birth rates for native-born citizens and/or for people who are already here. Propaganda that tries to convince you through mind games that the economy irresponsibly running hot for DECADES while relying on foreign supply chains for critical supplies wasn't and isn't a bad idea, even after Covid hit the globe. The same propaganda from media outlets that try to convince you that no, your political representatives aren't insider trading, aren't cooperating with foreign agents/spies and _definitely_ have your best interests at heart. Social media is a wonderful tool, but has been aggressively co-opted by both corporate and governmental interests to control how we communicate, to influence what we think and say - much much more easier compared to television where you couldn't provide input for the system to fine-tune what these companies really want you to think. Social media actively removing any sort of discourse that doesn't fit "the narrative" - today's misinformation is tomorrows fact, and todays fact is tomorrows misinformation - depending on who's paying and who's interests are being looked after. The constant division created in the media of left vs right, white vs black, natural-born vs immigrant, low-income vs high-income. What can we do? Well, I'd pose a few potential solutions but I don't want to be misconstrued as advocating for violence. Violence is the government's job since they have the monopoly on it.