It's been a lot of fun for me to think about how knowledge can be conveyed 'superficially'. Make it cute, make it pretty, make it gamified. I love Wikipedia and I know many others get lost in that article forest too, but I've been trying to learn how to illustrate my understanding of something in a way that is easy to consume by others. This has led me from low-level systems programming to web development and using frameworks like d3 to create animations of what I'm describing.

I think we'll counter authoritarianism on 2 fronts:

1) Make more information freely accessible. 2) Take existing, accessible information and convey it in a friendly way for the masses.