Once Out of Touch with Reality, You Stay Out of Touch

And this situation applies to many people today. They are not aware (of much of anything) and are not aware of this.

There are two responses to the assertion: the simplest, is to say it doesn't matter much - most people have never understood their situation very well, and probably never will. But the running of the world does not depend on them - this is done by other people, who are not doing too bad a job of it.

The immediate response to this is to note - that they are doing a poor job of it. Not an impossible job, but so far from what they should be doing - it's remarkable they can get away with it.

They do get away with it, because few are noticing, with their conscious minds - and because, with their unconscious minds, they approve of this incompetence.

The last thing I noted - the unconscious acceptance of gross incompetence - is something new, that showed up in the first half of the 20th Century (with the rise of Fascism) - but whose appearance was masked, by the dramatic appearance of TV and the Computer, in 1950-1980.

Too many things were happening, and we could not cope with all of them. The situation was not impossible - there were still many things we could do, one thing at a time.

But most of those, would challenge those who running things.