How do you spell Duh?

After talking with an associate of mine earlier this evening at work I have come to the following conclusion on a few things. One area of concern that has always bothered me is why so many people seem to believe whatever they are "fed" via our government, official news outlets and those in a position of authority.

Many people in general are not really confident enough in thinking for themselves and often abdicate responsibility to and require their acknowledged leaders to step up and lead the way into awareness on a provocative issue like this before they will seriously consider it as a subject they need to be aware of, concerned about, and involved in.
Often, the uncertain public in general, not wanting to deal with something like this themselves, doesn't want to acknowledge this or, for that matter, be faced with the reality of any leadership failure in this regard. To do so would no doubt cause them even more uncertainty and nervousness, so they simply don't and avoidance and thereby ignorance is their default habitual path.

The general political leadership are well aware of the general public's apathy in this regard and their lack of doing anything is generally geared to that perception. In other words, they take their cues from their perception of the general public's attitude in this regard.

The few political leaders who might have just a bit more of this on their radar usually come by their extremely limited information by often being in bed with the secrecy types in some manner and of course are compromised to that extent.

Further, they really haven't the slightest idea how to start to go about dealing with this and the deeply embedded secrecy power they would have to go up against, so they simply don't and so avoidance and thereby ignorance and apathy becomes their default habitual path.

The secrecy insiders are aware, at least based on the degree of their individual secrecy need to know, but they're mostly focussed on special interests such as technological advancement gains and military intelligence gain agendas.
Although there may be contingency plans in place, I suspect that the bottom line is that they have no definitive responses or answers as to what they anticipate will be public concerns and pressure for them to supply if the truth were to come out into greater general awareness.

So, avoidance but without the ignorance becomes their default path and ever increasing self perpetuating secrecy is the result of that as well as their increasing self isolation away from interest in the welfare of those (you and I) they are suppose to serve.