We are, and they are.
They perfectly know the difference, but this is HGWells' time machine story: the government is only there to feed at us, not to fight the evils for which we hired it for.
The same idiocy goes with global warming and psycholgy. Even if globowarming were truly harmful, the sheer taxing costs to fight the evil woul harm us more than undergoing its effects. Sustainable development is the same horsesheize. It costs us more in our lives than it does good abroad to give US aid to man made disaster areas.
It's government socialist aristocracy at its worst. The worst part is that secularization brings breakdown of communication as we are only allowed to "psych up" kids to work, but we are not allowed to make them think and make them talk straightforwardly in econmic calculated risks terms.
This kid's sin is that he were smart and told the authorities how innane, stupid and evil they were for trying to psych people up into believing what he did was harmful.
Don't you dare to oppose the secular psychological system mantra, they'll call you paranoiac or phobic, so that they can protect their own paranoiac lives of far greater harm (like all pot smokers, psychs are afraid to be found exploiting people with their intimations and accuzations instead of talking straight to them).