Comment by nerdchum

3 years ago

All of this is being done in some level of secrecy so they're conflating not caring with not knowing or even worse people know something is going on but not the full details.

Society only works because there is massive amount of trust. It is mostly implicit trust, people don't sign fully-informed contracts left and right. People operate under the assumption that (during peacetime) they can go about their lives without worrying about a specific other subgroup organizing to systematically and explicitly work against their interests. I.e. they don't feel under attack and so they don't behave as such.