By his metaphysical choices, Modern Man demands to be manipulated by rulers

Everybody nowadays complains about the lies, bribes, coercions and other psychological manipulations of the leadership class. 

But Modern Man has made the metaphysical decision to regard reality as without purpose or meaning...

So; if there is to be any human society of any kind it can only operate at a psychological level. 

By his metaphysical choices; Modern man demands to be manipulated by propaganda. 

In modern society, people do things for reasons that tare psychological merely: temporary "feels", because (by his metaphysical choices) there can be nothing else. 

In other words; if Modern Man says and acts as if there is no purpose or meaning to the human condition; then everything social reduces to a kind of manipulative "behaviourism" or "conditioning" - because it must be.

Because - by assumption - it cannot be anything else. 

(What else could Life be when things are not going anywhere nor for any particular reason?)

Modern Man wants and hopes that the socio-political "manipulators" (the leadership or ruling class) will be kindly, will want "us" to be cheerful and comfortable - rather than suffering miserably...

In a world where there is nothing deeper than "current feels"; we desire to be ruled by effective manipulators that are dedicated to inducing "us" to experience pleasing and gratifying psychological states. And that is what we call "good government". 

But there is no compelling reason why "the manipulators" would want "us" to be happy; after all (by our metaphysical assumptions), to them, "we" are just useless strangers, or numbers on a spread sheet*. 

Why should the manipulators want a mass of abstract people to be happy? Why should they manipulate our "feels" so as to maximize our gratifications and minimize our sufferings?

There seems no realistic psychological reason why they would. 

Given what Modern Man believes is the nature of reality; it is not surprising that instead the real-life manipulators more often want to exploit "us" for their own gain (whether for individual gratification - aka corruption; or for their collective gain aka totalitarianism) - because at least exploitation is psychologically comprehensible.

Even worse; we are increasingly getting "manipulators" who are spitefully motivated; who happen to enjoy tormenting and killing us. 

 And none of this ought to be surprising! 

Modern Man has decided that Life is about nothing more or deeper than current psychology; has made a system of socio-political control based upon that assumption; and is now reaping the inevitable consequences of that world view. 

*Note: We need to grasp the sheer absurdity of what most people are hoping-for in their political aspirations - given their metaphysical assumptions concerning reality! While it is, of course, normal for the leadership class to affect a great concern for the happiness and well-being of the masses - for leaders to claim in words that they are motivated by altruism; it is a plain fact that mainstream modern materialistic atheism provides zero  rational basis for such altruism. And yet people are astonished and disappointed - again and again, not learning from repeated experience; when leaders never fulfil their "promises" of working for "our" benefit!