A lot of the messages that are valuable exist as regular idioms that are pretty simple. 'Don't believe everything you read.' for example is only a few ideas away from 'the government, media and corporations are manipulating you for their benefit.'
One is probably generally considered good advice, the other is likely dismissed as conspiracy theory nonsense.
We probably need a few more simple ideas like for modern times. "Facebook profits most when they make you depressed"
"Tiktok is exploiting your sexdrive to influence your personal politics"
"Google is telling people what you masterbate too for money"
They'd have to be less direct of course. I guess one modern one is, "if it's free, you're the product". But that tragically overlooks the generosity of the FOSS community so I'm not a fan.
One is probably generally considered good advice, the other is likely dismissed as conspiracy theory nonsense.
We probably need a few more simple ideas like for modern times. "Facebook profits most when they make you depressed" "Tiktok is exploiting your sexdrive to influence your personal politics" "Google is telling people what you masterbate too for money"
They'd have to be less direct of course. I guess one modern one is, "if it's free, you're the product". But that tragically overlooks the generosity of the FOSS community so I'm not a fan.