Before covid, I went in and out of awareness of how messed up govt was and how much we were molded by propaganda. I read Chomsky and Illich, was horrified by the power of pharma and military lobbies, saw how uni-dimensional thinking was destroying our ability to even formulate useful policies as a society. But somehow I went through my daily life without quite connecting all of that to political power and my daily use of media.

But covid craziness- wow. I saw all the dysfunction playing out right in front of me. At this point I can't unsee it.