: The reason the Founders of the United States of America kept hammering the necessity of vigilance and action by the citizenry of the new nation was precisely because they knew that all man-made systems of every kind get gamed eventually and that efforts to do so begin immediately upon announcement of imminent implementation.
They also knew that, if you will forgive the anachronism, the phone calls always come from inside the house.
: Then when, not always if, the shit hits the fan or at least when things go down in ways that were often easily avoidable in the first place with little to no effort, they're a) shocked and surprised and b) irked with me, even and sometimes especially when I don't even say that I told'em so.
Fixing the levees that you were warned about consistently before and while they were built *after8 they failed is harder than paying a little bit of attention along the way.
: I get it, though.
Emotions and egos.
Those are always the problems, on both sides of the equation. They're why and how the systems get gamed.
C'est la vie, non, mes amis?
: Speaking for myself, it's always been rather difficult to get most people to be vigilant for more than a few moments. I don't mean to be paranoid conspiracy theorists but simply vigilant, to be observant *and* to think, even briefly, about what is being seen (or sometimes not seen while looking) and keeping even casual situational awareness, minding patterns and trends (again, even casually). I'm commonly told and always have been that that's too much trouble and (usually) a waste of time.