Alright, I've been brooding on this one for a while: basically, in our technologically advanced era, it is taken as a given that anyone can't know everything, therefore professions and knowledge are increasinly spread out, resulting in a population of workers who know everything about one particular field of expertise but are really deficient in terms of general knowledge. Yet come election time, everyone is expected to make an "informed" choice between political candidates, but how many people really know anything about actual policies, let alone the "hidden" relations between the state and e.g. major corporations?

Everything in our culture gets reduced into meaningless advertisements suggesting citizens perform action X - "vote Republican," "Buy this or that brand" - which, I'm afraid to say, has nothing to do with real liberal democratic choice or individual freedom, but is it's opposite: top down coersion.

Very few people realize that their opinions and sentiments are anything but spontaneous, but rather, like the drivel passing for "culture" in these times, the product of deliberate concensus engineering programs. "So what?" you say? Exactemundo!

I therefore propose mandatory high school level courses in cultural awareness, in which students are given a general, honest sketch of the
intellectual playing field, with special attention to tensions between corporate interests and those of "ordinary people."

Nothing short of revolutionizing the educational system, in other words.