Well thought out.
You know how FUD works, it addresses the weak and uneducated. This is why education is SO important, in this world of ever growing complexity.
What's happening? People were uneducated and easy to control in the darker ages, until just a few hundred years ago (at least in the more wealthy places on earth).
Now TV, followed by social media is "educating" people, while the classic educational system is degrading. Good old superstitions on the rise again. People in first world countries who can't really speak or understand their mother language, and all the social consequences. "Idiocracy" became real already.
Those who know have a choice: Use their educational advantage for good or not. It's just that the problem (miseducation, actually a word with more than one meaning) is so dominant already, there's little chance to turn it back. We're like degrading to apes again, as it seems.