They basically need to be betrayed a thousand times before they are inclined to believe us once.
I suspect it's more prosaic than that: Until they personally end up on the wrong side of this gigantic despotic machine they've cheered the creation of, they will not acknowledge it's downsides.
And even then, I suspect there's a strong chance they'll restrict themselves to "We must pick better tyrants next time" - these people have been utterly infantilised by a system heavily incentivised to keep them that way.
That is why we need to help them realize their own independence. As in, literally: you must be a trusted source and friend of these people in order to help them realize that they must be independent of these authorities, and you must help them facilitate it by teaching them to be independent. Long time preference, physical fitness, courageous opinions, etc.
If we don't do that, they will still maintain a Slave Mentality, and still focus on getting a different tyrant.
I suspect it's more prosaic than that: Until they personally end up on the wrong side of this gigantic despotic machine they've cheered the creation of, they will not acknowledge it's downsides.
And even then, I suspect there's a strong chance they'll restrict themselves to "We must pick better tyrants next time" - these people have been utterly infantilised by a system heavily incentivised to keep them that way.
That is why we need to help them realize their own independence. As in, literally: you must be a trusted source and friend of these people in order to help them realize that they must be independent of these authorities, and you must help them facilitate it by teaching them to be independent. Long time preference, physical fitness, courageous opinions, etc.
If we don't do that, they will still maintain a Slave Mentality, and still focus on getting a different tyrant.