Makes sense, power calls to evil people, so evil people are the type to naturally fall into powerful positions, and if someone like that thinks they will face no consequences for abusing you, they will continue to do so.
This is what people can't bring themselves to believe in the "modern western world". They erroneously think "if it were happening the media would be telling us".
They expect totalitarian dystopia to look a certain way, they have been conditioned by media to look for a specific set of obvious markers for it that aren't actually all that apparent or relevant to seeing things for what they are.
Even when these things do present themselves, thet treat it like it's something that could just be laughed off, like a lot of soviet citizens did with regards to a surprising amount of the evil acts perpetrated against them by their government.
Doesn't help that, as you said, they look to the corrupt establishment to tell them whether or not they are doing evil deeds, treating tyranny as if it's a crime that could only be convicted by the perpetrators own confession, a good amount of injustices could be carried out by a government without the knowledge of the people simply by making sure that the mainstream media which they control simply doesn't report on it.
It's a sad state of affairs indeed when the only way you know of great crimes committed against you is if the perpetrators are telling you what they did.
For most people, they will not know if something happens unless the voice of the system informs them about it.
And even worse, for most people, they will only feel about what they are informed on in the way that the media tells them to feel about it, their emotional reactions to what they know has happened are also being dictated to them by those who speak for their oppressors, a power which they, of course, use to turn the ignorant obedient masses of zombies against the few free minded people who could resist their control.
For most people, they will not know if something happens unless the voice of the system informs them about it.
Spot on. I'd add, or until it arrives at their front door at which point it's too late.
Solution? Find like minded people to surround yourself. Even the bible speaks of "not being unequally yoked to unbelievers". If you are unequally yoked you go around in circles.
Thats easier said than done when no one trusts one another enough to network in real life, and communications are being purposefully sabotaged by shills and agents.
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