Agreed.
In hindsight, it took a lot for me personally to stop appealing to authority and start applying critical thinking to more than just my job and academics. I hope the rest of the people who are still “asleep” are able to get the jolt they need to start rejecting authority wherever it is immoral.
As nostr:npub1zf2fsqpv76r0amaf22fjny4a7yypm867wdmqerla5a64ud3uda4s0337dr has said, misinformation must propagate, so at some point, the masses must be faced with outrageous contradiction. To your point, I think people will start to think critically when that contradiction impacts their socioeconomic reality.