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The owners intentionally bred willful ignorance through their media machines and captured government for half a century, all so they could destroy the planet, outsource jobs to third world slaves, and just plain forget about the concepts of antitrust and the social contract to increase profit with the promise of piss to come. Now even they have lost control of their conspiratorial, deluded zombies.
There was no eventuality in which that didn't end in cataclysm. Mass ignorance is a destructive force. And look at the state of the ruins of our K-12 system the owners destroyed to further cut their taxes if you want to claim we aren't all in on mass ignorance.
If you want a free, fair society, you need informed, educated citizens. But that's bad for business, because a society of educated, informed citizens would understand how bad they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard almost 50 fucking years ago.
It's weird how you believe the system has bred ignorance and people are being manipulated by the media but the people acting out against it are zombies and deluded conspiracy theorists? That's midwit talk, someone who knows enough to be dangerous but is still controlled by the system. You aren't enlighten or on the right side of history. You're part of the machine and just another obstacle for sensible people.
Time will tell. That said, if the fascists and/or the capitalists are still writing the history, the same kind of people that pushed manifest destiny, separate but equal, and supply side economics, maybe I'd rather not be.
Happy holidays, sensible person.
Your diatribe would have had more impact with a re-lecture.