People are power-hungry. That's how it was and it will always be like this. What is your knowledge and wisdom about our society?
There are many interesting aspects. For example, the use of frame control. This is used especially in politics but still is very common. It's where you have the facts of something but you emphasize certain aspects of it.
"[An] example of the power of framing was a study done about crime. People had crime described to them as a 'beast preying on a community.' Another group had crime described to them as a 'virus infecting a person/' The first group was more likely to support measures like increasing police force and jailing offenders, while the other group was more likely to support measures that focused on systemic changed or social reform. So we can see how we talk about before we discuss a topic [that affects] how we approach that second topic. This is framing."
source: https://encyclopediaofpower.com/frame-control-all-youll-ever-need-to-know/
Books I recommend reading
48 Laws of Power
The Art of War