That was how it was before the Vietnam War. The news media disconnected itself from the foreign policy desires of the State Department during the Vietnam War because they actually saw the lies on the ground and reported the facts.
The first Iraq war started the change back to having the news media play lapdog again with "embedded reporters" meaning that the news media couldn't wander by themselves like they did in Vietnam.
So we have shifted back to a news media basically toeing the line for the wishes of the government.
Ads for this type of services show up in craigslist regularly where I live. Named organizations like Viking Acquisitions or FAFO LLC post weekly. I bugged the local newspaper about it, but they were disinterested.
Maybe two things. Have you spent significant time as an outsider in a way that you couldn't change and wasn't going to change ? Being on the incontrovertible receiving end can make it clearer that the motives are that of being human beings. This is what human beings do.
And religion, though not so important for lots, is still really important to other lots. I would see the blind spot in underestimating the power of religion in the 21st century.
At some point I saw a yt science video saying that the water isn't moving but the dirt bit is the bit moving during tides
and i don't understand why the tides on the Right Hand coast are like clockwork and the Left Hand side of the country the tides are like "what time is it IDGF HIGHTIDE"
the only way to make sure we don't have trillionaires is to make sure that we don't have billionaires.