Interesting observation.

I, too, have repeatedly turned a blind eye and a deaf ear, like so many people who try to live their lives under the consumer societies. Probably out of the realisation that I saw no solution.

As far as I know, it is very difficult to fix the entire society as a whole, that is why I am personally more interested in finding small solutions that anyone can apply in his life, than big solutions, which require large mass movements and revolutionary changes in society. This is very unlikely to happen, and it depends on many factors and many people that it is impossible for us to control, beyond that we should not try to control that.

But insofar as I as a person, through all the actions that I do daily, can generate a positive change in my life and in my immediate environment, then, this can be seen as a small solution, a small part to solve a problem bigger than all, because it is really impossible that I alone solve the problem for everyone, but I can do what is in my power to help that happen.

It's as easy as, well, what I say in the post, just don't trust the media, stop spreading things that are false and harmful, stop giving power to those theories, and instead start generating doubt in people's heads, when talking to other people, and things like that.

Actually I believe that the only duty we have is to be good people, it is as simple as that although not for that easy, because it is always easier to do things wrong and get corrupted than to do them well. I read somewhere that, according to the Taoists, for a country to be well governed, it was only necessary for the ruler to practice virtue in all the things he did, if the ruler was virtuous, everything would go well, and everything would be ordered by itself. It is not necessary for the government to intervene in so many things, it is only necessary to practice virtue and everything will be fine.

And the more virtue there is, the less State there will be. If all people were virtuous, there would not be a single evil in society, because all evils are caused by moral deficiencies in people.

For that reason I think it is better to focus more on small solutions, on cultivating my own goodness, and ultimately, on trying to improve myself, than to focus on big solutions at large scales supporting this or that ideology, this or that movement, party, politician, etc., which probably won't make any real change.

It's like the post I made a few months ago talking about the things that we don't have but that we have to be, because it is about that, to focus on those things, which generate a change in one, and in society. I don't like to say that this type of thing is personal growth, because it is not a quantitative change but a qualitative one, in any case it would be personal improvement, and ultimately, social improvement. Because society is that, people.

Maybe my approach falls short for people who are looking for a solution to all the evils and all the injustices that exist in the world, but there really are not many options to choose from, it is not that we can really do much to solve those problems that escape from our hands, but what we can do is take care of preventing things like these from happening in the sphere in which we have power, in the things that are in our hands.

Sorry for having extended so much on the same point. It is always a pleasure to read you. Cheers!