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Access to information allows people to access whatever they want. The reason people believes lies or waste it on hedonism is because rulers have kept most people in the aesthetic stage of life according to Kierkegaard. Those at the higher stages can learn whatsoever they want.

Even Plato believed the average person is like a prisoner in the cave: philosopher kings should run society.