corporations spent all of the 2010's covering up tech stagnation . they leveraged the public utopian fantasy about progress and now that the fatigue has set in and they cant lie to their share holders anymore they just want to enslave consumers into outright feudalism
"Conceptual opposite of paranoia is 'pronoia.' Coined in 1982, pronoia is the delusional belief that there is a conspiracy to help you, rather than one plotting against you.''