Exploitation of the public information: a disheartening reality for sure.
Hard to frame it in the power games sphere.
Lot of people prefer to trust, to avoid the twilight zone (this is the name I sometimes give to mental states prevailed by doubts), in strict agreement with the preconceptions and dogmas acquired with their upbringing, so tend to examine the facts from a single point of view.
Taking it for granted that the complete awareness is not human thing, knowledge ( not the passive one, but the one brought by the mental hunger, or native curiosity if you prefer) and mind opening are the only valid tools IMO. Of course they're useless without common sense, and being gifted with some popular wiseness is often a very good help.
Subtle manipulation of opposing organizations: being used to read between the lines I regard myself aware of that and agree with you Garyb, I see one strong power only. The scenario staged by mass-media is almost pure entertainment .
But the opposition does exist in the soul of lot of people all around the world. Otherwise such organizations shouldn't exist at all.
It's not really accomplished, not enough organized, but the opposition DOES exist.
And it will grow IMO. Since the number of envious is growing fed by the awareness about the life condition of the elites, broadcast in every home (in the nations with soft censorship at least, I think).
It will grow since the number of sick people this society procreates is growing.
Without scientific data in my hands I just see my generation as weaker than my father generation (Freudian Oedipus?). And the sons of my generation as some more weaker to my eyes.
Of course I can see sportmen and teams from my "hi-civilized"
(shame on me) nation to excel all over the world making me dream on and deceive myself, but they're not the mass.
I meet the mass naked at the seaside, I see shadows under the eyes of the people I meet in the street.
It's easy that things agreeing with my thoughts stand out more to my eyes. However i tend to consider people suffering from some kind of illness like canaries in a coal mine.
Some things summed together sound just like an alarm bell.
Now, agreeing with Stardust, Hubird and others I still find it restrictive considering the environmental deterioration in terms of global warming only.
This February has been a very cold month here too. But since a couple of days we had a sudden temperature rise: 17° C is the difference between the minimum of the cold days and the maximum of of these days.
It could even be a perfectly natural event.
The world is large, yes, but considering the human activity in its multiplicity I don't feel up to say it has negligible impact on the biosphere at today. And its acceleration will rise.
It may still be restrictive to me. I can feel lot of deterioration (around me and even inside me, in part) in social/mental terms.
It's not hard to recognize similar spreading of corruption levels, looseness of morals, similar fall of the values on pages handed on by ancient historians.
Pages written during ages close to the wane of the society they belonged to.
It may sound magniloquently tragic. It may just be matter of exploitation of course.
I don't want let anything makes me numb, don't wanna let anything disheartens me to the passiveness, however.
