This reminds me of a quote from a really famous guy who I will not name:
“In any technologically advanced society the individual’s fate must depend on decisions that he personally cannot influence to any great extent.
A technological society cannot be broken down into small, autonomous communities, because production depends on the cooperation of very large numbers of people and machines.
Such a society must be highly organized and decisions have to be made that affect very large numbers of people. When a decision affects, say, a million people, then each of the affected individual has, on the average, only a one-millionth share in making the decision.
What usually happens in practice is that decisions are made by public officials or corporation executives, or by technical specialists, but even when the public votes on a decision the number of voters ordinarily is too large for the vote of any one individual to be significant.
Thus most individuals are unable to influence measurably the major decisions that affect their lives.
There is no conceivable way to remedy this in a technologically advanced society.
The system tries to “solve” this problem by using propaganda to make people want the decisions that have been made for them...”
Sobering truth there. It explains the persistent nonsensical propaganda. The decisions have already been made, and no matter how bad its going, they must report success to the public.