[MargaretR]

We are the society that we have been programmed to be by design.
In the past 30 years we have had to contend with -

1. Poisonous fluoride which has damaged brain capacity
The fact that fluoride was used to 'dumb down' jews in the nazi camps should tell you something about that.

2. Deterioration in the quality of food - poorer health - you might live longer but is poor health really living?
Permitted bad practice on farms (pesticides and growth enhancers etc) and factory farms. Toxic food additives are allowed

3. Reduction in educational standards - where no child can be a loser = mass mediocrity

4. Media programming from TV
Soap operas show a seedy and often violent way of living which is accepted as the norm.
Note that whatever you watch is intended to condition your attitudes and behaviour.

5. Diversion tactics by media in general, where 'celebrities' with rather deviant lifestyles are featured heavily, in preference to news.

6. Installing a permenant fear status in the population.
by way of - exaggeration of terror threats and fear of violence (which you are convinced is the norm - see 4)

So we have a generation who is less than bright mentally, in poor health physically, who perceive the world as violent and threatening. All of which makes them more controllable when limitations to personal freedoms are proposed and implemented. They will put up with a lot of restrictions in order to feel 'safe', and lack the mental capacity to understand what is being done to them.

You may well ask why? - but that is too big a topic to discuss here - you could take the trouble to find out
.......if you have the energy and time, after 'fighting the world for a living'