I agree with your sentiments, but unfortunately the same system that lies to us repeatedly has also psychologically traumatized us and failed to educate us in the ability to think critically. The end result is a warranted distrust in the power structure, but in the mess of daily information, a lot of nonsense that people are unable to differentiate from the truth, and will cling to for emotional reasons. Another problem is that it takes time to understand problems, but the pace of social media and new developments makes it hard to keep up. Part of this search for truth will have to involve some degree of walking away from the system in a practical sense to build something we can live directly...so the truth becomes the reality that we define as a lived experience and can thus know more directly with the actions we take. We have to play a more active roll in setting the context.