> Too bad they lack either brain cells or basic human empathy to make a connection between these events.

I think that's giving them too much benefits. They know what they're doing, it's clear they want "security for me, but not for you", and claiming they're too dumb to know exactly what they're doing is playing it exactly like how they want it.

Yeah, that the "lacking empathy part". Most of them are sociopaths and psychopaths, in the medical sense. They only want power for themselves at any cost to others.

I don’t think it’s that extreme. They probably view themselves as the arbiters of society and are inherently granted more privilege than a normal citizen. Paternalistic more than sociopathic. Issue is our parents, while have the benefit of experience, don’t know shit about shit really. Especially when it comes to tech.