"'Circenses' stop working when 'Panem' is already too scarce and the bombs are falling." Might be different in the Internet age, and I think it is. States are by design obsolete, so they don't understand reality. In fact, the kind of propaganda they are using is still the same as Goebbles', but the times are very different. Though they try to use the net, they do not understand it in full. They were just lucky that we also started to use it to full potential only in the last few years, a fact so well shown by Nostr and similar projects, which show the true potential of global distributed knowledge against centralized decisions. They are starting to fall back, as you can see for example by the fast failing propaganda on gender and climate.