Absolutely. But shorttermism is a plague that society has fully caught. I once heard it referred to as "microwave culture" everyone wants everything now and no one wants to wait for results in the long term.

Public_N_M_E

In the long civilization needs real empowerment of the individual by private property. Short term propaganda and dillusion can be working for sure as well

TomK

bitcoin

Whatever happened to personal responsibility?

birdeye21

Do you need to empower the individual? Or do you just need to make the individual feel empowered? The illusion of empowerment is just as good as keeping the masses under control. Only now you haven't given up any real power to keep them that way.