I'm not sure what's worse. Assuming that people knowingly and deliberately work dead-end jobs with no purpose, or assuming that people are too stupid to not kn

I'm not sure what's worse. Assuming that people knowingly and deliberately work dead-end jobs with no purpose, or assuming that people are too stupid to not know anything. I remember standing in line to go through baggage checking. A lady in front of me chatted it up with the TSA worker. She said thank you for the work, can't imagine how frustrating it must be sometimes. He replied thank you for appreciating it. Hanlon's Razor is useful here. I believe most people out there are just trying to do their job as well as they can and make a living. They aren't thinking about the bigger picture, and it's easy for many of them to think their jobs have meaning. In fact, I think that's a requirement for not getting depressed. No need to demean anyone. Most of the intelligent people I know don't even know what security theatre is when I discuss it with them. I think people who have concerns about security theatre are in the minority, judging from my own sampling. I haven't seen any official studies on the question as to how many people even understand or have heard of the term security theatre. I would love to review them if the studies exist.