@Orwell's mentor
Yes, I do think it would matter overall. However, we would also be left with traumatizing information and a stark realization that we were in the weaker position, but does being in the weaker position mean that something doesn't matter or does it mean that people would still be powerless in many ways to do anything about it? I don't think it does.
I think sometimes what happens too with companies like Coca Cola is that it does become very difficult to boycott everything that should be boycotted. I am grateful that so many people are endeavoring to make products and there are so many more brands to choose from now. I try to support them whenever I can. This makes things easier for me when I am showing because completely boycotting companies that exist almost like webs over so many things is very difficult. My boycott list is so long that I am at the point where I dread hearing something new that should cause me to add another thing to my boycott list.
Although, I'm not sure I am quite understanding what you are trying to say completely. You are saying that if the classified information was disclosed people wouldn't care
and this information won't be disclosed because it doesn't benefit war profiteers? Still, why wouldn't they disclose it if people wouldn't care?
I think this is the way it would looked if we compared releasing classified information as a pie chart. So right now, lets just conservatively estimate that there are a good 20 percent that already know that the CIA is responsible and they are hiding information by referring to incriminating evidence as classified information. Then, you have another 20 percent who either lack the education or the motivation to do anything about the information if it were released making the whole objective almost pointless anyways. This would still leave about 60 percent of the population that remains undecided because of the absence of more convincing and substantial evidence. This group is the reason the information has to be classified because with the information classified, this group will identify themselves with the 20 percent with little education or motivation to do anything about these crimes.
Overall, there has to be some greater percentage of the population that would care that things like this was happening to justify creating the CIA as a way to hide this information.