Misinformation and dependence are fostered with huge media propaganda campaigns that one can see via virtually all media channels. Squabbling for money is the constant bottom line for many actions. Consider that what is real cannot be known to any one person due to the well founded and verified limitations to human sensory abilities. What becomes reality depends on how we share our perspectives. This is the nature of science, the art of sharing observations.
Reality is consensus opinion, nothing more, nothing less.
Building our capacity for truthful representation of conditions is a challenge but it is one the information explosion forces us to acknowledge. MAEP is perhaps the greatest danger humanity faces. We all have this malady to some extent. MAEP exacerbates the potential for violent accident. Humans have long been considered as incapable of rational communication, Boolean algebra is said to break down when used to analyze human communication.