It is propaganda, girl, that leads us to continue to believe in the military primacy of the United States and NATO, while Russian hypersonics are 150% faster than American ones; to continue to believe in the economic primacy of the United States, while Chinese GDP exceeds that of America by 20%; to continue to believe in formal Western democracy, which is instead only a dictatorship dominated by those who, through the banking system, control money; to believe in Israel's right to take over the Middle East at any cost; to affirm the myths of competition and consumerism; to not perceive that every day in the world over twenty thousand children die of hunger and/or curable diseases; to exploit mysticisms, ideologies and religious beliefs to maintain power; and so on, clouding consciences that, as we all know, depend on material conditions and not the other way around. But, it cannot and must not last!