If I could get ahold of a comic book mind contact machine, one of those "everyone has a dream" things where everyone wakes up knowing something they didn't know when they went to sleep, the thing I'd impart is that the power structure is terrified of people realizing that the disaster is policy.

It doesn't have to happen; if we all collectively realize it's policy and not inevitability there's much to be done and a better world to hand.