I understand where you’re coming from, sometimes you don’t want to be reminded of these things especially if you’ve lived through them.
Any good story requires worldbuilding. For the context of this story to progress in the way I have in mind, it’s important to show how people are helpless to do anything. Otherwise the world they exist in would be easy to replace. But that chapter of the story is now in the game’s past. Now you start to see the main characters gain power, influence, and start fighting back. The world itself is supposed to be disliked, then changed.