In the age of lies telling the truth is a revolutionary act. We're most certainly being had, and a crisis is being put to a good use by the interested parties: politicians, businesses, banks/hedge funds, and plain ol' facebook/twitter mouth breathers who vie for popularity and likes. Adults have left the room decades ago, as far as I can tell, if there were any adults in the public sector in the first place.
Agreed: moral acts are received as evil. We are attempting to 'save our democracy' and 'protect everyone' and that always only ends in one place: totalitarianism. The paradox of sustaining safety/risk is where we need to sit. But the coordination (blind and ideological; I don't think any of it is evil) of media wanting clicks, politicians being paid means we all serve The Economy. Thank you for your comments!