People don't want to know, how awful things have become

This raises several questions, that I hesitate to get into.

First, it seems like things have taken over. Or perhaps I should say, a new kind of things have taken over. Which of course, raises the question "What are these new kind of things?"

But instead of answering that question, I will have to go in a slightly different direction, and make another assertion "They have utilized a new source of power, that has only appeared recently. The same source of power that created the Modern World." And we can now see (with the assistance of the Computer) that is huge amounts of Information. Or, to use a newer terminology - Big Data.

Which has been personified, in our time. by the Television. Everyone watches it - but they have no idea how much it influences their lives. And they don't want to know.

They know only one thing - something else is in control. And this pleases them greatly.