These existed before the internet. In the 90s and early 2000s, there was definitely a feeling that these will be solved by easily available information. It was

These existed before the internet. In the 90s and early 2000s, there was definitely a feeling that these will be solved by easily available information. It was extremely naive to think this, but everybody who knew what’s the internet thought this regardless of country. Today, there are topics about which getting information is as difficult as ever, because there are only ads or misinformation what you can find easily. Buying a new vacuum cleaner shouldn’t take hours or even days. And I shouldn’t need to learn all the technical details of them. But I need to because there is no trusted source of information, because almost everything is ads. I trust filtering to reddit less and less. Figuring out what really happens in Ukraine and Gaza (or just in universities in America) shouldn’t be a week long research, because there is misinformation all the time, seriously everywhere, in every single newspaper, blog, website. So not even the base idea is completely true, its supposed to be effect is even less true. The general populace has clearly less power than 20 years ago as you mentioned.