In this post I'm going to explain two different sides to this reality. One is going to be the enemy's technique and then the other is going to be the victim's fault

This post isn't gonna be some biased its only the govs fault, or "hate the elite", or "government is bad" post as much as I despise authoritarian/dictorial governments.

The victim's fault: People are sheepish at best nowadays. They listen to authority figures even though they claim to be anti authoritarian governments. Police, doctors, so-called experts, scholars, scientists, even celebrities. People listen to these types more than their own friends and family, more than themselves (intuition).

These authority figures, directly or indirectly, in most cases, work for the authoritarian government, that is trying to dictate the masses' reality of how they function, how they behave, and what they're allowed to do or say. If you listen to them you are usually have the rules of that said gov enforced on you, propaganda taught to you, rules instilled in you.

Combine this with people's really, really bad judgment calls, inability to critically think, and unawareness of who is pushing what agenda. It's a bad combination. People do not read. Despite what some may feel reading is important, it allows you to comprehend information at a higher level, it teaches you extra communication skills, it opens your mind to the words of others.

The enemy's technique: Divide & conquer is a major aspect of the enemy's ability to keep doing what they're doing. Polarization is the most obvious effect of this. You can see people joining or participating in certain sects politically, ideologically, or theologically. And of course, they always have to have an enemy that is, of course, a different sect of society. But never directly the government. This keeps people fighting themselves with no time to notice the true treat.

Keeping the population unaware of history, cultural differences and or similarities, (whenever it is accurate), economics and sciences like biology (including health, nutrition), and chemistry in particular. This is an effective technique, as an ignorant population that knows nothing of these things could possible out perform a collection of people who do.

Reverse think (Double think). If you've ever heard this term used in 1984, I must unfortunately tell you that it is not a fiction, but now part of reality. Good things are considered bad. Bad becomes good. Healthy is unhealthy and his versa. But most importantly Truth becomes lie and lies become truth.

I'll end with this. Spiritually is key, emotional control is important, and knowledge/wisdom is necessary. When I say spirituality, I'm not talking about religion per se, but having a religion that is healthy and you can understand what is spiritual about it and what is dogma about it would be just as good.

Emotional control means you prioritize positive emotions, happiness, joy, satisfaction, creativity over negative emotions such as jealousy, bitterness, angst, and melancholy.

Knowledge is just that, you have to be able to read and not just skim through things. In order to comprehend them, you must be able to think and find contradictions, use the power of deduction to determine what is not adding up due to contradictions in what was given. Your wisdom will be the ability to utilize such information in a real world situations and understand something you've never experienced because you can connect the dots.

Life is not bad, you may be living bad. They are not elites, unless you call them so. When you fall, you can choose to get up.