Yeah. We're all the most 'aware' we've ever been. It's done jack shit. We just call it 'doom scrolling' now as if all the fucked up things in life are just another funny meme.

Awareness campaigns are just 'thoughts and prayers' for non-religious people.

nobody responsible is doing anything to fix them

Hey now. Some people are actively working to make them worse.

We're fully through the looking glass on Climate Change, for instance. Like, 20 years ago, you had the son of an oil tycoon family negotiating the possibility of a private scheme for capping carbon emissions. And now you've got liberals hashing out the acceptable degree to limit EV imports and block expansion of solar and wind installations, while they support subsidized AI data centers powered by burning methane gas.

I don’t think lack of awareness is the issue.

One of the consequences of Awareness without any meaningful policy behind it is a sustained and energetic disinformation campaign by people profiting from the system's problems.

Like, its not even enough to inhibit a public policy of Affirmative Action. Now you've got to purge every minority or woman from administrative posts in order to prove you're not voluntarily implementing DEI. We don't talk about Defunding the Police, but about how far we can go in surveilling and arresting potential BLM/anti-genocide protesters. We openly persecute trans-people and "double Gitmo", because radical reversals in civil rights are in vogue. We double down on gerrymandering and try to reverse the popular election of progressive government officials, because the very idea of a popular democracy is revolting to the national press corps. We raise taxes on poor people, not to do anything about a budget deficit but because we think punishing anyone who isn't rich is some kind of civic virtue.

All "Awareness" appears to have done is to paint bullseyes on any particular liberal issue du jour.