that Big$-Tech$ minions have filled the nascent brain-pans of the masses with so much useless trivia, that there are no free neurons for anything else.
No Wonder that the propagandists' idiotic assertions are daily swallowed hook-line-and-sinker,
patently nullifying even the concept of Voting, never mind such Big-words as "democracy".

Die! kultur ... or Die! Murica (or both, if it isn't already a fait accompli (YMMV))
It's dead, Mr. Spock; it's just a reanimated corpse you see out there.
Mr. Spock, er Captain Spock, Sir: take the Enterprise home, that we might bury decently the walking-dead.