Information can be disturbing at first, but it's better that all the people have some. In my opinion (imo). Also, makes me glad we voted for who we did.
One of the concepts that was forged in those years of selves and groups producing action and reaction and an uber critical thinking necessary ("a psycholigical perspective") was/is "spectrum". The word "palette" was kicked around, as was "garden", but people landed on spectrum to describe variations and universal humanity.
Even war information is on a spectrum. And spectrum is different than basic scales weighing "good" and "bad". Clearly, in a war stance, some have advantages. China's commitment to education, for example, is producing a different sort of educated person than other nations. According to one BBC article, China is turning out 6000 phD (in STEM subjects, science, technology, engineering, math) people a month. That's a lot of people working in that line of thinking. And China is very competitive. But, it's still a nation on a spectrum of nationhood. In many ways, it is to be lauded for its striving to perfect its nation. And people the world over have long taken that stance with the criticisms of it not having a very good human rights track record. Like an invisible teacher, reminding there's always room for improvement.
Some nations refuse to even try. No concessions. No opposition. On the spectrum of type of nation, those lean towards "authoritarian". The very challenge or suggestion that they might be different about this, that, or the other thing gets people put in prison, tortured, killed. In old Europe before the turning points of World Wars there was almost absolute isolation within nations and each was dictating own standards. It was rarely as "neat" as the China of today makes it seem. There was internal strife. And there was a lot of time taken with actions involving a nation and other nations.
These days we are presented with different kinds of nations functioning at a very fast speed in all areas of being. But, to some extent the visual information that is out there now is a mix of futuristic and what we know of people historically. It's often how we group around looking at a new topic, especially a technical topic. The information is designed to be "high impact". That gets attention. And it's designed to relay clues to stimulate more thinking. There are, for example, current "trends" like start ups disrupting/small drones ruining big equipment/experimental AI surprising the spectrum of evolution in AI.
Sometimes information is tailored to spark the interest of certain kinds of people. Science and math can be "boring" and "dry".... Let's make some animation to ease the distance between not knowing and knowing. Technology being able to make anything a "movie-like" experience, there's lots of showing off to get investment, generate interest, exhibit the strengths of this type of influence. That's World's Fair type stuff. There's ambiguity. There's indifference. For some people, there's choice...I'd rather be baking a cake.
Ah, but in life as it is, there is competition and there is "enemy", so the information about capability and actuals (OMG, THEY HAVE 100 to our 2) adds a layering to the World's Fair type stuff.
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