the most important thing that the state education system does, which ironically benefits their enemies, is to ignore teaching skepticism and the actual scientific method

the results of that are playing out in real time

the effectiveness of propaganda is greatly increased and they use it to control their own tax cattle but then surprise surprise the enemies all leverage this as well and the end result is total chaos

it eventually has to come to a climax at some point, after which people will never accept it again, at least not for a few thousand years