I agree with that. But it is deeper than “Santa Claus” or the “Easter Bunny.” The educational system dumbs us down. As a kid I was required to “pledge allegiance to the flag” each morning in school. A culture that valued freedom would have taught children to pledge allegiance to the “Bill of Rights” or to a functioning democracy. A culture that valued critical thinking would have encouraged examination and criticism of government and corporate action.
When I was a kid I was actually taught that there was a country called “South Vietnam” which was a democracy and was being invaded by another country called “North Vietnam” and that the United States was intervening to “defend democracy” in the “country of South Vietnam” at the "request of the “people of South Vietnam.”
None of this was even remotely true but that is what I was taught in school.
With an educational system like this, is it any wonder that we are in such a mess.