No, it was a bit crappy before, then got pretty good, but then went to shit.

Even the solitaire game in Windows now needs an Xbox account, shows an ad before you can play, nags you for s subscription to make ads go away and keeps sending notifications for challenges.

The truth is handed in a silver platter but that reality is immediately rejected and replaced with their own wishes and dreams.

This happened in the UK too with Brexit. When things turned out badly, in the exact way as was predicted, it was “this isn’t what I voted for”. But the problem was never with the vote itself, it was always the fault of politicians not implementing things correctly, it was the EU’s fault for not giving them what they wanted although they voted to be outside of it, experts didn’t warn them enough although they ridiculed said experts because the experts didn’t went along with the Brexit beliefs.

It’s like trying to be Scully and going against Mulder’s “I want to believe”.

Standard conservative interpretation: anything I don’t like.

Because the world is seen and directed by layers upon layers of abstractions that get divorced from reality but do give monetary benefits when manipulated in some way.