It's not even a situation of whether or not the education system works. Most people just aren't capable of giving a shit. As long as something doesn't very directly affect them they don't care.
I don't think that's our fundamental nature, though, I think it's part of the same broader cultural conditioning that wants us consuming first, and reasoning later.
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