We’re constantly psychologically manipulated.
Yes, so about that - these things are actual power applied holding us on the necessary (for their owners) trajectory. There are already plenty of actual broken people. Nobody will stop them without a power solution. That is, a cure. A counter-manipulation technology, that manages to stay under the radar for its carriers to become strong enough before actually engaging in countering this.
I don’t see that future counterweight, perhaps that’s before, as said previously, it stays under the radar.