Unfortunately the younger generation today is more pro govenrment banning hate speech/speech offensive to racial minorities. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/20/40-of-millennials-ok-with-limiting-speech-offensive-to-minorities. I think that's a real problem.
"What would you be revolting against, and why?"
It's more of a matter of if we will or won't when presented with a reason to.
As for the above, regardless of the cause it's still causing that to happen. Entertainment is preferable to real life, so people have begun to retreat into entertainment instead.
It's more than that. They make this world look both boring and frightening, then they push distractions at us that give us stimulation and comfort. For every channel that's selling us fear there's twenty more that will sell us Celebrity News or elaborate fantasy settings that are presented to be more interesting than our own.
Who is 'they' exactly? The media? Commercialised media is, like anything else, driven by demand and supply. I know people who work in media, inc on the production side of things, and as far as I'm aware they're not all involved in some mass conspiracy to brainwash and subjugate the masses. What would be the point, and what would be in it for them?
There is an awful lot of crap on tv everywhere in the world, dire gameshows that the people involved in producing it don't even watch etc. But the only reason it's on air in the first place is because a hell of a lot of people do watch it, talk about it, and complain when it's not on. Many interesting and insightful documentaries and news programmes also get made, but not as many people watch them so there is not as much funding or air time for that type of programme, so there become less opportunities to make them. This is sad, but there is nothing sinister or conspiracy-like about it - it's just capitalism.
We'll never revolt, as either we won't really want to look at what's happening or we'll be turned against each other through the use of party politics and other demographic clashes.
What would you be revolting against, and why?