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It's easier to throw stones than realize "this could happen to my society too and in all likelihood I'd be just as screwed as the Americans, Russians, 1930s Germans..."

COVID was another vivid illustration of how you're just along for the ride with people who can act contrary to everyone's collective self-interest

Seems it's people with outsized media influence that have the most agency for change, beyond that a fish rots from the top down