I think you are right about everything here Indi, all good observations, thanks for posting. Something maybe worth pointing out is that every powerful cause has at least one voice. Every political argument and every war has at least two sides, and every side always ensures there are ways for us to listen to their arguments, if we wish to hear them and seek them out.
So like you say maybe we feel a little god-like, if we are privy to the knowledge of both sides, like banks always are, this is the way to defuse their warmongering poison (or to profit by it if we happen to be banks) .
In the end the oligarchs and big corporates are even more vulnerable than us individuals, it is in their dna to compete against one another.
So that is their weak point, we humans are wired to naturally collaborate, if we have found how to get that god like status you mention, all we need is the common knowledge of all sides to every story, and we are ready to collaborate.
As Crystal pointed out in her response, medium could be it. Here we see pretty much all sides represented by someone or another.
Listening to all sides, even if we don't agree with them, we have the mechanism to say why, and maybe at least have some dialog.
Personally I think a lot of the bad stuff we are seeing will be defused by them eventually all running out of ways to profit, as a natural effect of draining all of their energy reserves.
At some point all have to turn to the only source of energy remaining, and that is the sun, from which it is mathematically impossible to work at profit, so probably the end for all profit driven media.
But it's a painful process watching, and waiting for this to happen.