None of what you have said here could be argued against effectively.

It is an amazing outcome of information.

When the mind has been positioned and fed a specific portion the outcome is absolutely predictable. This is the main tooling of society since it was learned.

But, the scale of application is limited take for example the last cold war period. The majority of western people were 100% aligned with fear that the ruskies would land any day now. Bomb shelter business was booming, among many others. All of this was programmed. Then we watch the media continue to grow in strength with modern TV mini series rapid programming and assimilation.

I just think that all of this has been used in a way that has reduced the value of the people in society and the capability of the entire countries output also.

This has led to a decline in all things. We now see it as 'the plan'