I feel like the worse the world gets, the more I notice this message all over the place - "lower your expectations", "accept", etc., things like that. All this kind of pseudo-Buddhist crap.
It's always bothered me on a subconscious level, always seemed suspicious. I've always instinctively, in a knee-jerk way, felt like, "**** that ****".
I think the reason that message is becoming a "thing", is because the people on top are trying to condition us to accepting a worse world as "the new normal" - to just accept that this is the way things are, and NOT to take them to task for actively, consciously choosing to make the world worse on purpose, for their benefit/their pathological, out-of-control greed and sociopathy. It's a redirection tactic, to take your attention away from them, to forget about how things were. And they're trying to program you too, to get you to think, "oh, it's ME that has the problem, I expected too much! I need to just get used to life being ****" instead of looking and seeing that they are actively making it shittier than it was, well within living memory.
If you just "accept" and "lower your expectations", you forget that things used to be better than this, and you don't demand anything better.
They want a lot of the papers... if I was a criminal I'd get the papers very easily, so what's the use of it all
buckle up! 
