So, my perspective is, we should be optimistic and confident, but we must not be complacent and passive.

I can get behind that. I certainly don’t intend to do nothing. ‘Oh, the Aussie Trump’ has passed my lips more than once.

You raise good points of which I am not unaware, although I’d suggest (technofuedalist controlled) social media is more a threat, and sadly more intractable, than Murdoch et.al. today (not sure what scope you meant by mass media).