When people are dying in the numbers that they are, when young people are dropping dead and yet the vast majority aren't even blinking an eye there's something terribly wrong with that.

This is true. You can put most of that up to what I said if you consider people are not particularly honorable or brave these days compared to what they were in the past. That is not a culturally important anymore. I think most people get that fix for thinking they are brave from living vicariously through movies of videogames. In reality, they are cowards.

Fear of those they likely know are perpetrating these acts. Speak up and they know what these bad guys can do to them.

I think there is some collusion but just because so many horrific things are being gotten away with doesn't mean they all are colluding together.

Keep in mind 6 corporations (may be less now) control most of the media that is traditionally consumed by people. If you want to say those 6 and those that direct them are in collusion I'd say you are likely 99% correct. (I'd do 100 but I tend to avoid absolutes if there is even a small chance of an exception).

As to many other people. They could be on a rail of their life and not want to acknowledge anything that would make them have to do more work and disrupt their routine.

There are many ways it can look like they are colluding without them actually doing so. Apathy is a bitch.