They are perception managers, and can make things become "real" and "true", even though they aren't.

History is written by the winners!

It's amazing how I wrote today about something very similar, watched Risk and citizenfour last night and realized the amount of surveillance we are now under, and that we need to reach for more privacy and security in this centralized chaos we are now at...

Have you checked out some of the crypto projects trying to encrypt and decentralize the internet also Elon Musk's Starlink? Cryptos like substratum, maidsafecoin, skycoin, etc... want to encrypt the information going through the internet and relay it across many nodes, gov might be able to control the internet, but if all the information is encrypted how will they know what they are controlling?

Decentralization surely is a light in a dark dark centralized universe we are living in, I have hope for the future, and I aim to work in improving, develop and adopt a more decentralized society!

The future looks bright and dark at the same time!