Hehe, the funny thing is I don't know if I'm an utter ignorant narcissist or if the world is just completely blind to the two most important revelations since the atomic bomb.

We know when companies and governments started to buy this information, it's traceable, it's not hidden, since 2016-2018 it's commonly discussed by politicians and industry leaders. We knoooow this. This was basically the take-away everyone should have understood from Cambridge Analytica, they are surprisingly not alone in that industry. But journalists failed to communicate the gravity of that revelation cause "tech hard ouch brain".

The other obvious big thing that has come to shape the world entirely is, as cringe as this sounds, the revelation around the NSA. But again, journalist failed society here by not hiring technical experts that broke this down in a digestible form. Governments have the tools to collect the same opinions from the population that data analysts can, it's just in a different format more or less. Why did journalist fail us? Cause NSA legit isn't doing much bad, but China employs this very same type of information gathering to effectively choke the free information from billions of people.

We know this, we know democracy breaks when you can aggregate millions of opinions before you state your actual agenda.

Honestly, it's more likely I'm a narcissist here, but it seems obvious. :P